Howard County Indiana Pioneer -- Elliott MASON

Elliott MASON

Name of Ancestor's Spouse: Gincy JACKSON
Date Born: February 27, 1819 Location of Birth: North Carolina
Date Died: March 26, 1901 Location of Burial: Brethren Cemetery near Yale, Guthrie County, Iowa.
Name of Spouse's Father: Job JACKSON
Name of Spouse's Mother: Lydia PUCKETT

Proof:

• 1850 U.S. Census, Howard County, Indiana, p. 942, (Green Twp., Elliott Mason household), National Archives Micropublication M432, Reel 151
• Atlas Map of Howard County, Indiana (Kingman Brothers, 1876), p. 23. Union Township. First Settlers. "February 1844...Thomas MOORMAN, Jefferson HORINE and Elliott MASON from Grant County settled near where the Hancock school house now is, on the north side of Wild Cat [Creek] near West Liberty." "In 1843, C.P. BALDWIN, C.O. FRY, James LANCASTER, Elliott MASON and Thomas MOORMAN cut the first road from Deer Creek settlement in Grant County near Jonesboro to the forks of Wide Cat Creek, on south side of the Prairie." "Elliott MASON settled on GRAVES' farm, now [1876] Wm. WARE's farm near West Liberty."
• BLANCHARD, Charles, ed, Counties of Howard and Tipton, Indiana, Historical and Biographical (Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., 1883), pp. 241-2.
• HEISS, Willard, ed, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1962), Pt. 1, p. 295; Pt. 2, p. 349.
• Panora Vedette, Panora, Iowa April 4, 1901, p. 8, (obit for the widow, Jinsey Mason. Also gives name of her husband, Elliot MASON, and the year of his death.)
• Perry Advertiser, Perry, Iowa March 29, 1901, p. 3, obit for Jency Mason.
• Randolph County, Indiana, Marriage Register, 3:107 (Mason-Jackson), Office of Clerk of Court.
• Wayne County, Indiana, Clerk of Court, Will Book 2, p. 236. In his 1835 will, Job ELLIOTT named (among others) his grandson, Elliott MASON, son of Thomas MASON and his daughter, Grazell, dec.

Other Info/Children:

On the 1900 Census of Perry, Dallas County, Iowa, Gincy MASON reported that she had five children, one living. According to the 1850 Census of Howard County and other evidence, they were:
1. Lydia Ann Mason, b. 1838, probably Randolph Co., Indiana; d. January 24, 1876, buried in Resting Green Cemetery, Ironton Twp., Sauk Co., WI. (Lewis & Lydia BATES tombstone, Resting Green Cemetery, Ironton Twp., Sauk Co., WI.) Lydia married Lewis L. BATES, March 20, 1857, in Grant Co., IN. (Grant Co., IN, Marriage Book, 3:232.)
2. Emily MASON, b. 1840, probably Randolph Co., Indiana; d. after 1885 probably in Jackson Township, Guthrie County, Iowa. Emily married Richard B. HOLLINGSWORTH, December 3, 1857, in Grant County, Indiana. (Grant Co., IN, Marriage Book, 3:282) She married, second, Joseph W. CUMMINGS, October 8, 1871, in Madison Co., IA. (Madison Co. Marriage Register District Court, Winterset, Iowa, Bk. B, p. 133.)
3. Edith MASON, b. September 29, 1842, Randolph Co., Indiana; d. January 14, 1914, Panora, Iowa; buried in Brethren Cemetery in Yale, Guthrie Co., IA. (Tombstone for Jesse & Edith HALL, Brethren Cemetery, Yale, Guthrie Co., Iowa. Gincy MASON is buried in lot with her daughter & son-in-law, Edith & Jesse HALL, and shares their tombstone.) Edith married Jesse Thomas HALL, April 7, 1859, in Grant County, Indiana. (Grant Co., IN, Marriage Book, 3:386.)
4. Nathan MASON, b. est. 1846. He was a member of Elliott MASON's household when the 1850 Census of Howard County. was taken. (See above reference.) No further trace. May have died young. He was not with his mother on 1860 census of Union Twp., Howard Co., IN. While it is more likely that he died young, it is also possible that another family took him in after his father's death.
5. Albert MASON, b. 1848, d. Aug 1849, Howard Co., IN (1850 U.S. Census, Howard County, IN, Mortality Schedule, (Green Twp., Albert MASON, age 2, probably the child of Elliott & Gincy, but possibly the child of Elihu MASON. However Elihu MASON had a two year old child in his household when the 1850 census was taken. (1850 U.S. Census, Howard County, Indiana, p. 942, Green Twp., Elihu Mason household).