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From: (Richard Bollhorst)
Subject: Re: [ILMARION] Mason Family, Salem
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:31:11 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: "George F. Sanborn Jr." <seorasog@mediaone.net>'s message of Sat, 09 Jun 2001 21:21:38 -0400


Hi George
I noticed that you have had a couple of answers to your message but I
also found several others tht could possibly have been his children or
relatives so I am sending them also plus a little more info I found.
1860 Marion County IL Census
T1N, R1E Centralia P.O. 28 June 1860
#279/281
Mason, Henry 29 m Ma bag'ge man
listed as living in hotel run by James Holden

331/333 30 June 1860
MASON, Wm. 27 m Ms. bag'ge man
listed as living in boarding house run by John Felton

T1N, R1E Central City P.O. 13 July 1860
502/504
MASON, Henry 54 m Oh farmer
Fowler, Davy 51 m Tn. farmer
Rebecca 50 f NC
Virginia 16 f TN
Richard 10 m IL

T2N, R2E Salem P.O. 28 Jul. 1860
848/874
MASON, W. H. 40 m NH grocer
you already have this one so won't send it

1870 Marion County Census
Centralia 1st. ward Centralia, P.O. July 1, 1870
____/ 51
MASON, Richard 22 m TN (6) farmer bl
Aily 25 f TN (2) keeping house bl
Harry 7 m IL bl

Centralia 2nd. ward Centralia P.O. June 23, 1870
12/13
MASON, Nathaniel 46 m Vt. (1) farmer
Caroline 38 f NY (2) keeping house Mary
8 f NY
Belle 5 f NY
Campbell, Hattie 20 f IL (5) domestic servant

Centralia 3rd. ward Centralia P.O. June 23, 1870
the famiy of Warren Ball is listed as head of this household plus
several others
51/54
MASON, Mary 58 f NY
Devins 22 m NY (3) farm worker/laborer
Belle 23 f Mi.

Raccoon Precinct Raccoon P.O. June 20, 1870
161/149
MASON, John 65 m NC In < Insane>
listed as living in home of William Duncan.

T2N, R2E Salem P.O. June 4, 1870
205/207
MASON, Wm. H. 56 m NH (56) photographer
You already have this one too so won't resend it.

Footprints in Marion County Spring 1984 Vol VIII # 4
Marion Co. Births 1877 -- 1882
Date of newspaper Jan. 23 1880
Date of Birth Dec. 13, 1880
Parents D. W. & bby J. MASON
city & Sex Centralia, twin girls

There was an article " A Grisley Mystery in Salem" about a murder that
occured in Salem and in that article was the following

Mr. Wm. H. MASON made an excellent photograph of the skull before the
lower jaw was found.

Footprints in Marion County Winter 1984
Volume VIII # 3
December 22, 1902 Mrs. W. A. (Martha Hubbard) MASON, wfe of Centralia's
school principal inthe '60's died in Los Angeles. She claimed to be a
grand-niece of Jessie Merwin, the person on whom the character of
Ichabod Crain was based

Don't know if any of this will help but thought I would send it anyway.
Sandy

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