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Note: GEORGE A. MASON WAS MARRIED BEFORE HE MARRIED DORTHULA COOPER, AND HE HAD FOUR CHILDREN BY THAT FIRST MARRIAGE. THERE WAS CARL MASON, FOSTER MASON, MARY MASON, AND JIM MASON. GEORGE A. MASON WAS TWENTY YEARS OLDER THAN DORTHULA MASON, WHO WAS BORN IN 1903, SO GEORGE A. MASON MUST HAVE BEEN BORN IN 1883, AND UNCLE HERSHEL WILLIAM MASON, HIS SON BY DORTHULA, SAID THAT GEORGE A. CAME FROM KENTUCKY, AND AUNT OPAL PAULINE KOEHL (MAIDEN NAME MASON) SAID THAT GEORGE A. MASON LEFT HIS FAMILY WHEN SHE WAS FOUR, WHICH MUST HAVE BEEN 1930, AND THEY NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN. DORTHULA MASON GOT A DIVORCE IN JELKES ARKANSAS.* VALERIA COULDN'T FIND A GEORGE A. MASON ANYWHERE BUT 1920 IN KY. SHE RESEARCHED 1910 ARKANSAS AND FOUND HIM AS G. A. MASON, 30, BORN IN ARKANSAS, HIS FATHER AND MOTHER BOTH BORN IN KY. HIS WIFE ANNIE, 29, ALSO FROM ARK. WITH TWO CHILDREN FROM ARKANSAS, CARL,11, AND FOSTER,2. JELKES ARKANSAS IS BETWEEN AGUSTA & MAcCLORY ARKANSAS. New information on this family and ancestory came from the Internet Inquires on Masons in Ark. and KY. A Mr. R.N. Zinn, a great nephew of George A. Mason sent us information he had on disks and hard copies.
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