Mary Susan (Green) Mason (1808 - 1895)

Born 26 Aug 1808 in Scott, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Jefferson Mason — married 12 Aug 1836 in Morgan, Kentucky USA

Descendants

Died 9 Aug 1895 at age 86 in Elliot, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

When Susan (Green) White Mason was born on August 26, 1808 in Scott County, Virginia, her father James Green was 25 and her mother Dulcena was 26. She married James Claiborne White and they had two children together between 1828 and 1831.

They decided to move to Oregon and took off for the Oregon trail. When they arrived in Independence Missouri James became sick and he died there at the age of 36. Susan changed her mind about going west, turned around and returned to Kentucky.

She then married Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Mason and they had eight children together between 1836 and 1848.

She died on August 9, 1895, in Kentucky, having lived a long life of 86 years, and was buried in Richmond {Madison County}, Kentucky.

Mary was born about 1816.

Sources

1850 United States Federal Census. Morgan, Kentucky; Roll: M432_214; Page: 135B; Image: 311 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. [Jefferson Mason 40. Susan Mason 45 {b abt 1805 VA}, Elizabeth Mason 12, William Mason 9, Martha Mason 8, David Mason 5, Dulcena Mason 2]

Kentucky, Find A Grave Index,{1776-2012 not a memorial #} Find A Grave Memorial# 144889882 {no photo} created by Wayne Carver Sr, burial in Mason Cemetery, Isonville, Elliott County, Kentucky, USA.

See also

1840 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com My Heritage.com. Ratliff Family.FTW and Ratliff-Blair2.FTW

Oral Stories Told by Sonja's Grandmother: These are `oral history` in my family, and have not been proven beyond a doubt, but have been passed down to us by family ancestors, and there is truth to them, if not historical confirmations.

Thomas Jefferson Mason had a very interesting life. Thomas and Susan must have lived under a cloud of danger and fear for much of their lives together. Thomas`s father, Jesse Mason (m. Sally Todd) was a fugitive from English justice, and was in danger until the day he died. There were Broadsides (wanted posters) for him with a sizable reward for his capture and arrest, posted everywhere. There was a wanted poster for him still in existence in my family until 1935, when the house it was in burned. My Aunt Alice (will be 96 years old in May in the year 2000) actually saw and read this wanted poster when a young girl. Unfortunately, she can not remember the `name`on it, only that it was for her great-grandfather, and her grandmother (Elizabeth Mason Hutchinson) told the story many times. Jesse Mason`s `crime`, was `Kidnapping an Heiress, Lady in Waiting to the Kings Court`, a very serious crime, punishable by death. Actually, they had eloped and sailed to America to escape the Kings (and her fathers) fury. Jesse`s kidnapped `Lady` died, on the ship on the way here. In fear for his life, Jesse had changed his name, and we don`t know what Jesse`s name really was. Did he use a temporary false identity? Were either the Jesse or the Mason his real name? Did he change back to his real name when he felt the danger had passed and he was safe to use his real name, and his real name was Jesse Mason? We do not know. but we have never found a shred of evidence that Jesse Mason existed before his marriage to Sally Todd. We only know that he escaped and survived the King`s fury at his dastardly crime, married Sally Todd, and had a son, named ThomasJefferson Mason who married Susan Green-White.

Thomas Jefferson Mason scouted for Indians during times of Indian troubles. While scouting in the year 1836, he came upon an Indian massacre. The wagons were still smoldering and all of the people on the scene were dead. He checked the area for Indians before going back to the scene. He found no Indians, but he did find Susan Green-White hiding in a hollow tree with her children. They were the only survivors. The Indians had killed her Husband (James Claiborne White).

Thomas took her and her children to safety and they were married. I do not know any particulars about why, or where, Susan and her family were going in a wagon. Perhaps my grandmother told more details, but being young when I heard the stories from her, I do not recall more details, I`m sorry to say.

Thomas and Susan had the following children: Elizabeth MASON, William F. MASON, Martha MASON, Morgan David MASON, Cena Isabelle MASON

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Sonja Ratliff for creating WikiTree profile Green-8570 through the import of Drummond.GED on Oct 2, 2013.

• Daughter's death certificate: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TK-QHHW