Mason family

For other uses, see Mason (surname).

Mason
Ethnicity	English
Current region	Eastern United States
Information
Place of origin	Pershore, Worcestershire, England
Notable members	George Mason IV Stevens Thomson Mason (1760–1803) Armistead Thomson Mason James Murray Mason John Thomson Mason, Jr. Stevens Thomson Mason (1811–1843)
Connected families	Fairfax family Fitzhugh family Lee family Mercer family Randolph family
Estate	Gunston Hall

The Mason family of Virginia is a historically significant American political family whose prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics, business, and the military. The progenitor of the Mason family, George Mason I (5 June 1629–1686),^[1][2][3] arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on the ship Assurance in 1652.^[2][3][4] Mason was a Cavalier member of the Parliament of England during the reign of Charles I of England.^[3] George Mason I's great-grandson was George Mason IV (11 December 1725–7 October 1792), an American patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Along with James Madison, George Mason IV is known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights."^[5][6][7][8] For these reasons, Mason is considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States^[9][10] and raised the Mason family to national political prominence.

George Mason II (1660–1716)^{[2][4][11][12]} and his son George Mason III (1690–5 March 1735)^{[2][4][13][14]} both served as a member of the House of Burgesses, Stafford County sheriff, Stafford County county lieutenant, Stafford County militia colonel, planters, and businesspersons. George Mason III's son and George Mason IV's younger brother, Thomson Mason (14 August 1733–26 February 1785),^[15] was a patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Thomson Mason's son, Stevens Thomson Mason (29 December 1760–9 May 1803)^[16][17] served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature, and as a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia (1794–1803). Another of Thomson Mason's sons, John Thomson Mason (15 March 1765–10 December 1824)^[17][18] was a jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806.^[17] Thomson Mason's grandson John Thomson Mason (8 January 1787–17 April 1850)^{[17][19][20][21]} was a lawyer, United States marshal, Secretary of Michigan Territory from 1830 through 1831^[17], land agent, and an important figure in the Texas Revolution.^[20] His son Stevens Thomson Mason (27 October 1811–4 January 1843),^[22][23] was also territorial governor of the Michigan Territory, and later governor of the state of Michigan.^[22][23] He was first appointed acting Territorial Secretary at the age of 19, then became acting Territorial Governor in 1834 at the age of 22. George Mason IV's grandson James Murray Mason (November 3, 1798 – April 28, 1871)^[17][24] was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Virginia and represented the Confederate States of America as appointed commissioner of the Confederacy to Great Britain and France between 1861 and 1865 during the American Civil War.

Members of the Mason family

• George Mason I (1629–1686) m. Mary French (1658), m. Frances Norgrave (1664)
  • George Mason II (1660–1716) m. Mary Fowke (1688), m. Elizabeth Waugh (1706), m. Sarah Taliaferro (1710)
    • Ann Fowke Mason Darrell Fitzhugh Smith m. William Darrell (c. 1710), m. Thomas Fitzhugh, m. Thomas Smith
    • Elizabeth Mason Roy m. William Roy
    • George Mason III (1690–1735) m. Ann Stevens Thomson (1721)
      • George Mason IV (1725–1792) m. Ann Eilbeck (1750), m. Sarah Brent (1780)
        • George Mason V (1753–1796) m. Elizabeth "Betsey" Mary Ann Barnes Hooe (1784)
          • Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnes Mason Hooe (1785–1827) m. Alexander Seymour Hooe (1802)
          • George Mason VI (1786–1834) m. Elizabeth Thomson Mason (1813), m. Eleanor Ann Clifton Patton (1823)
            • Helen Eliza Mason Ellzey (1813–1876) m. Thomas Lewis Ellzey (1834)
            • Sarah Eugenia Mason (1816–1816)
            • John McCarty Mason (1817–1837)
            • George Thomson Mason (1818–1846)
            • Georgianna Mason (1819–1820)
            • Sally Eilbeck Mason (1821–1888) m. George Mason of Hollin Hall (1846)
            • Richard Barnes Patton Mason (1824–1847)
          • William Eilbeck Mason (1788–1820) m. Salome Caroline Edelen (1817)
          • Ann Eilbeck Mason Grymes (1791–1864) m. George Nicholas Grymes (1808)
          • Sarah Barnes Hooe Mason Stith (1794–1877) m. John Stith (1815)
          • Richard Barnes Mason (1797–1850) m. Elizabeth Margaret Hunter (1836)
            • Emma Twiggs Mason Wheaton (1836–1864) m. Francis Wheaton (1861)
            • Elizabeth Mary Ann Sally Mason (1838–1912)
            • Alice Graham Mason (c. 1843–1847)
        • Ann Eilbeck Mason Johnson (1755–1814) m. Rinaldo Johnson (1789)
        • William Mason (1756–1757)
        • William Mason (1757–1818) m. Ann Stuart (1793)
          • William Stuart Mason (1795–1857)
          • George Mason of Hollin Hall (1797–1870) m. Ann Louisa Harrison (1821), m. Sally Eilbeck Mason (1846)
            • Ann Louisa Mason (1822–1823)
            • Kora Mason Chase (1847–1889) m. Theodore L. Chase (1871)
            • George Mason (1848–1888)
          • Ann Sarah Stuart Mason Heileman (1803–1852) m. Julius Frederick Heileman
          • Edgar Eilbeck Mason (1807–1835) m. Eugenia Cary Fairfax
            • Edgar Eilbeck Mason, Jr. (1828–1907)
            • Ethelbert Fairfax Mason (1830–1906)
          • Mary Elizabeth Mason (1810–1885) m. Enoch Mason, Jr. (1831)
            • Enoch Lorraine Mason
            • Eugenia Mason (1834–1915) m. Napoleon Bonaparte Bratton (1864)
        • Thomson Mason (1759–1820) m. Sarah McCarty Chichester (1784)
          • Mary Thomson Mason Ball (died April 1837) m. Fayette Ball (1819)
          • Thomson Francis Mason (1785–1838) m. Elizabeth "Betsey" Clapham Price (1817)
            • Ann Graham Florence Mason Rhett (died 1883) m. Thomas Grimke Rhett (1846)
            • Arthur Mason (died 28 May 1835)
            • Sarah Elizabeth Mason Campbell (1819–1907) m. St. George Tucker Campbell (1841)
            • Matilda Eulalia Mason Rhett (1821–1871) m. Charles Hart Rhett (1847)
            • Thomson Francis Mason (1825–1841)
            • John Francis Mason (1828–1897) m. Augusta Heath Morris, m. Carolina DeJesus Rodrigues
              • Frank Mason (born c. 1859)
              • Arthur Mason (1861–1862)
              • Carita Douglas Mason (1867–1889) m. Thomas Swann (1887)
              • Thomson Francis Mason (1868–1946)
            • Virginia Mason Davidge (1830–1919) m. William Hathorn Stewart Davidge (1853)
            • Caroline Betty Mason (1832–1919)
            • Arthur Pendleton Mason (1835–1893) m. Mary Ellen Campbell
              • John Archibald Campbell Mason (1870–1888)
          • Ann Eilbeck Mason Dawson (1787–1845) m. Samuel Dawson (1819)
          • Elizabeth Thomson Mason (1789–1821) m. George Mason VI (1813)
          • George William Mason (1791–1855) m. Mary Ann Patton (1820)
            • Frederika Mason Devereux m. John P. Devereux (1843)
          • Sarah Chichester Mason (1792–1820)
          • Richard Chichester Mason (1793–1869) m. Lucy Bolling Randolph (1816)
            • Robert Thomson Mason (1818–1890)
            • William Fitzhugh Mason (1821–1822)
            • Randolph Fitzhugh Mason (1823–1862) m. Lavinia Randolph Deas (1859)
              • Randolph Fitzhugh Mason, Jr. (1863–1952) m. Frances Helen Albright (1900)
                • Alice deLancey Mason
            • Lucius Meade Mason (1824–1845)
            • Eliza Carter Mason (1824–1832)
            • Baynton Turner Mason (1826–1857)
            • Richard Randolph Mason (1827–1886)
            • Lucy Bolling Mason (1831–1832)
            • Eliza Lucy Mason (1832–1862)
            • Beverley Randolph Mason (1834–1910) m. Elizabeth "Bettie" Harrison Nelson (1875)
              • Richard Nelson Mason (1876–1940) m. Blanche Andrews (1925)
                • Elizabeth Nelson Mason m. Thomas Lewis Nial (1955)
              • Julia Nelson Mason Matthews (1878–1964) m. Calvin Bruce Matthews (1925)
              • Lucy Randolph Mason Moffett (1880–1965) m. George Hoxie Moffett (1908)
              • Margaret Thornton Mason (1882–1884)
              • Mary Wallace Mason Patchin (1884–1963) m. Philip Halsey Patchin (1909)
              • Susan Josephine Beverley Mason Easley (1888–1962) m. George Gilmer Easley (1916)
            • Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (1836–1915) m. Robert Heth (1865)
            • John Stevens Mason (1839–1918) m. Eliza Randolph Carter Beverley (1866)
              • Robert Beverley Mason (1867–1901)
              • Richard Mason (1869–1952) m. Lucy Randolph Heth (1909)
              • John Stevens Mason (1870–1924)
              • William Beverley Mason (1874–1949) m. Agnes Gray Kennedy (1907)
                • William Beverley Mason, Jr. (1908–1996) m. Dorothy Willing Randolph (1935), m. Helen Ann Prather (1979)
                  • William Beverley Mason III m. Ann Roosevelt (1974)
                    • Zachary Paul Mason
                  • Randolph Dulany Mason m. Mary Elizabeth Terry (1969)
                    • Alexandra Terry Mason Walsh
                    • Peyton Randolph Mason
                • G. Dandridge Kennedy Mason (1912–1978) m. Elizabeth Morton Mackie (1946)
                  • Elizabeth Morton Mason Schwenker m. Robert Frederick Schwenker III (1967)
                  • Mary Selden Mason
                • John Stevens Mason (1914–1984) m. Frances Eleanor Jones
                  • John Stevens Mason, Jr. m. Shirley Ann Labier (1966), m. Linda Louise Papas (1992)
                    • Angelina Elizabeth Mason McLellan m. Daniel Manuel McLellan (c. 1998)
                    • Mary Louisa Mason Gibbs m. George Keith Gibbs (1996)
                  • Mary French Mason Elder m. George Shumate Elder (1968)
              • Landon Randolph Mason (1877–1902)
              • Jane Carter Mason Ramey (1881–1925) m. John Thomas Ramey (1904)
              • Eliza Beverley Mason Greene m. David Thomas Greene (1918)
            • Landon Randolph Mason (1841–1923) m. Lucy Jacqueline Murray Ambler (1875)
              • Randolph Fitzhugh Mason (1878–1918)
              • John Ambler Mason (1880–1958) m. Pocahantas Hendren (1910)
                • Cary Mason Strong (1911–1998) m. Robert Strong (1935)
                • William Landon Mason (1914–1989) m. Jane Elizabeth Merrill (1940)
                  • Merrill Mason Vandiver m. Linton Mitchell Vandiver II
                  • Lee Randolph Mason Neely m. Thomas Herron Neely (1969)
              • Lucy Randolph Mason (1882–1958)
              • Landon Randolph Mason, Jr. (born 1884)
              • Ida Oswald Mason Burke (1888–1939) m. Charles Sinclair Taylor Burke (1912)
            • William Pinckney Mason (1843–1923) m. Elizabeth Ruthven McGill (1873)
              • Wardlaw McGill Mason (1876–1936)
              • Lucius Randolph Mason (1886–1984) m. Sophy Stanton Jonston (1918)
                • Sophy Carr Mason Burnam m. Caperton Burnam (1944)
              • Shirley Carter Mason Prescott (1891–1972) m. Alexander Fullerton Prescott, Jr. (1914)
          • John Mason (1797–1820)
        • Sarah Eilbeck Mason McCarty (1760–1823) m. Daniel McCarty, Jr. (1778)
        • Mary Thomson Mason Cooke (1762–1806) m. John Travers Cooke (1784)
        • John Mason (1766–1849) m. Anna Maria Murray (1796)
          • John Mason, Jr. (1797–1859) m. Catherine Macomb (1827)
            • John Henry Mason (1828–1831)
            • Alexander Macomb Mason (1831–1835)
            • John Mason III (1832–1878) m. Anna Julia Martin (1867)
              • Sarah Devereaux Mason Partlan (died 1962) m. James William Partlan (1901)
              • Catherine Marguerite Mason Lapham (1874–1895) m. John W. Lapham (1891)
              • Georgianna Mason Kries (1878–1911) m. Jules Killian Kries (1894)
            • Anna Maria Matilda Mason (1834–1838)
            • James Murray Mason (1836–1856)
            • Poinsett Mason (1838–1838)
            • Eilbeck Mason (1839–1916)
            • Alexander Macomb Mason (1841–1897) m. Sophia (Hurry) Shreve (1890)
            • Daniel Murray Mason (1843–1869)
            • George Fowke Mason (1846–1870)
          • James Murray Mason (1798–1871) m. Eliza Margaretta Chew (1822)
            • Anna Maria Mason Ambler (1825–1863) m. John Ambler (1847)
            • Benjamin Chew Mason (1826–1847)
            • Catharine Chew Mason Dorsey (1828–1893) m. John Thomas Beale Dorsey (1856)
            • George Mason (1830–1895) m. Eleanor Sophia Wallace (1856)
              • James Murray Mason (1857–1880)
              • George Mason (1858–1860)
              • Eliza Chew Mason Carnes (1860–1934) m. George Thomson Carnes (1879)
              • John Mason (1864–1964)
              • Benjamin Chew Mason (born 1865)
              • George Murray Mason (1874–1876)
              • George Mason (1876–1959) m. Agnes Jane Logan
                • Elizabeth Jean Mason King (1904–1969) m. Robert King
                • George Mason (born 1908) m. Jewell Lindsey
                  • George William Mason (1928–1994) m. Wilma Marie (?)
                    • Deborah Mason
                    • George Mason
                    • David Bryan Mason
                • Virginia Agnes Mason Dixon Jeannette (1910–1977) m. William Dixon Barnett, m. Val Jeannette
            • Virginia Mason (1833–1920)
            • Eliza Ida Oswald Mason (1836–1885)
            • James Murray Mason, Jr. (1839–1923) m. Eliza Hill (1863)
              • Eliza Chew Mason Page (1865–1956) m. Wood Newton Page (1892)
              • Thomas Hill Mason (1867–1922) m. Pauline Campbell White (1898)
              • James Murray Mason III (1869–1945) m. Rosa Stevenson Nelson (1895)
                • Mary Watts Morris Mason Strudwick (1896–1917) m. Edwin Strudwick, Jr.
                • Rosa Nelson Mason Talbert (1897–1978) m. William Brownell Talbert (1924)
                • James Murray Mason IV (1902–1963) m. Ida Statti
                • Eliza Hill Page Mason m. Kenneth A. Miller (1939), m. Taylor Marbury
              • Willie George Mason (1873–1873)
              • Mary Wilson Mason Speed (1877–1961) m. Phillip Speed (1905)
              • Ann Penn Chew Mason Brent (1879–1960) m. Charles Scott Brent II (1907)
            • John A. Mason (1841–1925) m. Fanny Edwards Fox (1888)
          • Sarah Maria Mason Cooper (1800–1890) m. Samuel Cooper (1827)
          • Virginia Mason (1802–1838) m. George Mason (1827)
          • Catherine Eilbeck Mason Jamison (1804–1888) m. Cacilius Coudon Jamison (1847)
          • Eilbeck Mason (1806–1862) m. Virginia Magill (1843)
          • Murray Mason (1808–1875) m. Clara Cecilia Forsyth (1837)
            • Fanny Forsyth Mason (1838–1907)
            • Clara Forsyth Mason McGuire (1840–1877) m. John Peyton McGuire II (1860)
            • Virginia Mason Bower (1842–1926) m. A. Peter Bower
            • Anna Maria Mason (1842–1928) m. Samuel Boyer Davis (1862)
          • Maynadier Mason (1808–1865) m. Mary Virginia French (1830), m. Mary Fitzhugh (1855)
            • Maynadier Mason
            • John Mason
            • Murray Mason (c. 1832–1853)
            • Charles French Mason (c. 1835–1844)
            • Marianne Clark Mason Marsteller (1844–1921) m. Emlyn Harrison Marsteller (1873)
            • Robert French Mason (1845–1903) m. Margaret Cooke (1866)
              • Margaret Cooke Mason (died before 1919)
              • George Lee Mason m. Sophie Birney White (1906)
              • Maynadier Mason (died 1918)
              • Marianne Virginia Mason Minor (1868–1937) m. Benjamin Saunders Minor (1898)
              • Robert French Mason, Jr. (1870–1942) m. Frances Louise Fuller (1906)
                • Robert French Mason III (1907–2002) m. Eleanor Adelia Bodel (1940)
                • Melville Fuller Mason m. Mary J. Ingalls (1932)
            • William Virginius Mason (1855–1930) m. Eva Marsteller (1875)
              • Maynadier Murray Mason m. Myrtle (?)
              • Anita Dorsey Mason Piercy (born 1876) m. John Morpott Piercy II
              • Selma Marsteller Mason (1876–1918) m. Lillian Brown (1903)
                • Buena Wilson Mason Miller m. William Irwin Miller
                • Selma Marsteller Mason m. Angelella Beam
                  • Terry Mason
                  • Sharon Mason
                  • Linda Mason
                • Ruth Virginia Mason Lynch Hornor (1906–1986) m. Joseph Burnell Lynch, m. Boyd Hornor
                • Anna Marsteller Mason Pettrey m. Given Luster Pettrey
              • William Virginius Mason, Jr. (born 1878) m. Isabel R. Mathews (1909)
                • William Virginius Mason III
                • Catherine Van Cortlandt Mason
                • Jean Mason Browne m. Robert Prall Browne (1952)
            • James Maynadier Mason m. Margaret Tingey Chichester (1884)
              • Ellen Dulany Mason Browning (1890–1978) m. William Stickley Browning (1917)
              • James Maynadier Mason, Jr. (1892–1969)
          • Anna Maria Mason Lee (1811–1898) m. Sydney Smith Lee (1835)
            • Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905) m. Ellen Bernard Fowles (1871)
            • Sydney Smith Lee, Jr. (1837–1888) m. Charlotte Dickerson
            • John Mason Lee (1839–1924) m. Nora Bankhead (1871)
            • Henry Carter Lee (1842–1889) m. Sally Buchanan Floyd Johnston (1868)
            • Daniel Murray Lee (1843–1916) m. Ann Eliza Ficklin (1874)
            • Robert Carter Lee (1848–1903)
            • Elizabeth Mason Lee (1853–1853)
          • Joel Barlow Mason (1813–1861)
        • Elizabeth Mason Thornton (1768–1797) m. William Thornton (1789)
        • Thomas Mason (1770–1800) m. Sarah Barnes Hooe (1793)
          • Elizabeth Mason
          • Gerard Alexander Mason (1793–1849) m. Anne Mary Wisenbacker (1818)
            • Richard Alexander Thadeus Mason (1818–1880) m. Anne Mary Shuman (1849), m. Mary Rosa Blount (1865)
              • William Sydney Mason (1850–1912) m. Mary Olive Causey
                • Rufus Arago Mason (1874–1910) m. Mary Houston Youmans
                  • Joseph Arago Mason m. Sadie Florine Shuman (1921)
                    • Rufus Arago Mason
                    • Louise Mason
                    • Miriam Mason
                    • William Mason
                  • Mary Cornelia Mason
                  • William Hammond Mason (1907–1979) m. Margaret Elizabeth Brown Davis (1935)
                    • Carolyn Virginia Mason Bessinger m. Tiny Donald Bessinger (1956)
                      • Donald Richard Bessinger m. Leilani Theresa Elizabeth-Anne Jones (1976)
                        • Jason Hammond Bessinger m. Allison Hiers (2000)
                          • Shelby Carol Bessinger
                          • Jace Donald Bessinger
                        • Adam Richard Bessinger m. Jessica Nicole Martin (2007)
                          • Aden Richard Bessinger
                        • Jacob Mason Bessinger
                • Annie Iola Mason DeLoach (1876–1913) m. Arthur Jacob DeLoach
                • William Allen Mason (born 1879) m. Essie Sweat, m. Margaret Ellis, m. Mary Dixon Brooks (1945)
                  • William Allen Mason II (1902–1987) m. Nellie Fouche (1937)
                    • William Allen Mason III
                    • Margarette Estelle Mason
                  • Robert Sidney Mason (1904–1958) m. Vera Connely
                  • Rufus Leroy Mason (1906–1982) m. Blondele Creech (1936)
                    • Sylvia Ann Mason
                  • Marion Mason (1908–1981) m. Hazel Deason (1935)
                    • Catherine Deason Mason
                    • Homer Prince Mason
                  • Harold L. Mason (1908–1987) m. Sally Long (1935)
                    • William Mason
                  • Pringle Mason m. Rachel Boylston
                  • Mary Ella Mason Kyser m. George Kyser
              • Joseph Arago Mason (1851–1898) m. Rachel Causey
                • Alexander Thadeus Mason (1872–1899)
                • Christie Irene Mason Goethe (1875–1955) m. Charlie Goethe
                • Harriot Ann Mary Mason Mixon (born 1878) m. Raymond Mixon
                • Homer Holcomb Mason (1879–1913) m. Leila Ellis
                  • Vera Ruth Mason Tarver (1905–1970) m. William Byrd Tarver (1926), m. Eugene Murphy Buckatte (1940)
                  • Zoe M. Mason (1909–1989)
                • Thomas Allen Mason (born 1882) m. Cora Hewett
                  • Frank Causey Mason (1913–1991) m. Aurelia Byrd (1943)
                    • Frank Causey Mason, Jr. (1943-2010) m. Lana Frances Ferber, m. Nancy Maley (1995)
                      • David Causey Mason m. Deanna Lederer (2004)
                        • Dylan Causey Mason
                        • Jake Brando Mason
                      • Carole Leigh Mason Blunk m. Anthony Michael Blunk (2004)
                        • Madison Christina Blunk
                        • Mason Elizabeth Blunk
                    • Mary Mason Thorne m. John Thorne
                    • Huger Mason (1952–1973)
                  • Olin Malette Mason m. Rose Mary Hills
                    • Olin Malette Mason
                  • Thomas Allen Mason, Jr. (1918–1994) m. Palmer Irene Huffman
                  • Marion Irene Mason Huffman m. Vertie Henry Huffman
              • Mary Porter Mason Daley (1853–1903) m. Robert McKibben Daley (1876)
              • Harriot Ann Mason (1854–1854)
              • Allen Thadeus Mason (1856–1879)
              • John Francis Mason (1858–1859)
              • Wilton Franklin Mason (1860–1909) m. Margaret Catherine Mulligan
                • William Henry Mason m. Miriam Fulfort (1918)
                  • William Mason
                  • Alexander Mason
                  • James Mason
                  • Miriam Mason
                  • Barbara Ann Mason
                • Mary Francis Mason (1896–1897)
                • John Franklin Mason (born 1898) m. Anna Gnann
                • Gladys Emily Mason Rainey (1900–1980) m. Charles Richard Rainey (1925)
                • Sarah Mason Paschall (1905–1991) m. Andrew Paschall
                • Wilton F. Mason m. Catherine Reiser
              • John Graves Mason (1861–1931) m. Rosa Lee Virginia Gohagan (1889)
                • Annie Elizabeth Mason Peeples (1890–1953) m. Marion Lee Peeples (1911)
                • Jessie Ida Mason Collier (1893–1950) m. Herbert Hydrick Collier (1917)
                • Mary Olivette Mason Davis (1898–1974) m. William Jesse Davis (1923)
                • Rosa Lee Virginia Mason Tyler Douglas (1900–1975) m. Wyatt Harold Tyler (1923), m. Harold Odell Douglas (1934)
                • John Elwood Mason (1903–1965) m. Agnes Prince, m. Hattie Way
                  • Annie Rose Mason Shafer m. Wayne Allen Shafer
                  • Mary Elizabeth Mason Littlejohn m. Roy Mitchell Littlejohn (1957)
                • Cliff Mason (1905–1906)
                • Philip Mason (1907–1908)
                • Wenonah McDaniel Mason Boltin Davis (1908–1982) m. John Harold Boltin (1932), m. Ellis Davis
                • Grace Nadine Mason Saunders (1910–1996) m. Joseph William Saunders (1933)
                • Joe Gohagan Mason Boyd (1912–1974) m. Evelyn Boyd
                • William Hydrick Mason (1917–1955) m. Alma Newell (1939)
                  • Dixie Lee Mason McKenzie m. James Clarance McKenzie III (1959)
                  • John Newell Mason (1943–1953)
              • George Kelly Mason (1865–1938) m. Florence Iola Long (1896)
                • Sidney Mason m. Ida Mae Long (1935)
                  • Earl Mason
                  • Franklin Mason
                  • Yvonne Mason
                • Cynthia Mason Brook m. Sea Brook
                • Louis Mason m. Eulia Nettles
                  • Gylden Mason
                  • Dorthy Mason
                  • Jimmie Mason
                  • Danny Mason
                • Evelyn Mason Cleland m. (?) Cleland
                • Elmer Mason
                • Ray Mason m. Gertrude Dean (1940)
                  • Ida Mason
                  • Maxie Mason
                  • Mary Mason
                  • Gloria Mason
                • John Ross Mason (1910–1989) m. Corrine Dean
                • Valley Mason (born 1913)
              • Edward Sydney Mason (born 1866) m. Myrtle (?)
              • Daisey Ethel Mason Box (1868–1922) m. Horace Gassie Box (1885)
              • Stephen Albert Mason (1869–1925)
                • Annie G. Mason Rushing (1895–1957) m. Clarence Rushing
                • John F. Mason (1897–1949) m. Pauline Higgeonbothern
                  • Rose Ellen Mason Waldon m. Archie Waldon
                • Thelma A. Mason Harmon (1899–1993) m. Earl C. Harmon
                • Ripley Cape Mason (1902–1981) m. Myrtle Helmuth (1928)
                  • (?) Mason
                  • (?) Mason
                  • Samuel Albert Mason m. Rosemarie G. Van Epenhuysen, m. Julia Elizabeth Green
                    • Erika M.J. Mason Butler m. Kirk Butler (1984)
                    • Kathryn Elizabeth Mason
                    • Lucy J. Mason
                  • Andrew Stephen Mason m. Barbara L. (?)
                • Maude K. Mason (1905–1983) m. (?) Simmons, m. Ernest Palmer
                • Marion Louise Mason Bass m. James Bass
              • Anne Corinne Mason Hall (1870–1953) m. Edward David Hall (1895)
              • James Edward Mason (1873–1915) m. Eulalia Mae DuBois (1903)
                • Valley Mason Connor m. H. G. Connor
                • Eugenia Mason Moorer m. Ernest I. Moorer
                • Louise Mason Niver (1907–1985) m. W. Niver
                • Ethel Mason Bercegeay m. E. Bercegeay
              • George Upchurch Mason (1875–1955) m. Mabel Claire Mooney
                • Mildred Mason Lea m. Ted Lea
                • Sarah Corinne Mason Reece m. Raymond Reece
              • Arthur Humbert Mason (1876–1904)
              • Mary Rosa Eualie Mason Chadwick Neidlinger (born 1878) m. (?) Chadwick, m. Charles Samuel Neidlinger (1893)
          • Leannah Mason Barron (1798–1824) m. William Hendley Barron (1817)
          • Thomas Mason (1800–1828) m. Martha F. Berry
            • Berry Mason (1825–1852)
            • Thomas Mason, Jr. (1828–1906)
        • Richard Mason (1772–1772)
        • James Mason (1772–1772)
      • Mary Thomson Mason Selden (1731–1758) m. Samuel Selden (1751)
      • Thomson Mason (1733–1785) m. Mary King Barnes (1758), m. Elizabeth Westwood Wallace (1777)
        • Stevens Thomson Mason (1760–1803) m. Mary Elizabeth Armistead (1783)
          • John Thomson Mason (1787–1850) m. Elizabeth Baker Moir (1809), m. Frances Magruder (1845)
            • Mary Elizabeth Mason (1809–1822)
            • Stevens Thomson Mason (1811–1843) m. Julia Elizabeth Phelps (1838)
              • Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. (1839–1843)
              • Dorothea Eliza Mason Wright (1840–1916) m. Edward Henry Wright (1860)
              • Thaddeus Phelps Mason (1842–1847)
            • Armistead Thomson Mason (1813–1813)
            • Armistead Thomson Mason (1814–1814)
            • Emily Virginia Mason (1815–1909)
            • Catherine Armistead Mason Rowland (1818–1884) m. Isaac S. Rowland
              • Elizabeth Moir Mason Rowland (1840–1905)
              • Kate Mason Rowland (1840–1916)
              • Thomas Rowland (1842–1874)
              • John Thomson Mason (1844–1901) m. Helen Jackson (1875)
            • Laura Ann Thomson Mason Chilton (1821–1911) m. Robert Hall Chilton (1845)
            • Theodoshia Howard Mason (1822–1834)
            • Cornelia Madison Mason (1825–1831)
            • Mary Elizabeth Mason (1828–1833)
            • Louisa Westwood Mason (1829–1829)
          • Armistead Thomson Mason (1787–1819) m. Charlotte Eliza Taylor (1817)
            • Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. (1819–1847) m. Sally Inness Forbes (1843)
          • Stevens Thomson Mason (1789–1815)
          • Mary Thomson Mason Howard (1791–1813) m. Benjamin Howard (1811)
          • Emily Rutger Mason McCarty (1793–1837) m. William Mason McCarty (1816)
          • Catherine Mason Barry Hicks (born 1795) m. William Taylor Barry (1812), m. Thomas Hicks
        • Abram Barnes Thomson Mason (1763–1813) m. Sarah Ann Hough (1787)
          • Thomson Mason (born 1788)
          • John Hough Mason (1789–1790)
          • Richard Barnes Mason (1791–1841) m. Mary Armstrong (1813)
            • George Thomson Mason (1816–1900) m. Martha Ann Nixon (1850)
              • Sarah Mason
              • Patrick Henry Todd Mason m. Mary F. Winning
              • Lula Mason Nicholls m. John Lewis Nicholls (1897)
              • Mary Armstrong Mason (died 1941)
              • Armstrong Thomas Mason
            • Ann Thornton Mason (1818–1829)
            • Armistead Mason (1819–1829)
            • Sallie Elizabeth Mason Dodge (1820–1900) m. William Dodge (1844)
            • Mary King Mason Wilcoven (1821–1898) m. Hanson Thomas Wilcoven (1855)
            • Virginia Mason (1823–1829)
            • Lucilla Stanley Mason (1826–1904)
            • Abraham Barnes Thomson Mason (1827–1828)
          • John Thomson Mason (1792–1793)
          • John Thomson Mason (1793–1835) m. Ann Thomas (1818)
            • Marie Mason
            • Matilda Brent Mason Raborg m. Samuel A. Raborg
            • John Thomson Mason
          • John Hough Mason (1794–1837)
          • George Mason (1795–1797)
          • Sarah Ann Mason Johnson (1797–1855) m. Thomas Rinaldo Johnson (1818)
          • Mary "Molly" Barnes Mason (1799–1877)
          • Abraham Mason (1801–1802)
          • Abraham Barnes Mason (born 1803)
        • John Thomson Mason (1765–1824) m. Elizabeth Beltzhoover
          • Mary Barnes Mason Winter (c. 1800–1844) m. John Winter (1833)
          • Elizabeth Ann Armistead Thomson Mason Wharton (1803–1857) m. John O. Wharton (1829)
          • Abram Barnes Mason Barnes (1807–1863) m. Margaret St. Clair Clarke Patterson (1831)
            • Bettie M. Barnes
            • John Thomson Mason Barnes (1833–1913) m. Anna Jamison, m. Ellen Ann Hill (1880)
              • Elizabeth "Bettie" Mason Barnes Judson m. William Judson
              • Nannie Mason Barnes
              • Sarah Hill Barnes Pennypacker Francis Campbell (1881–1962) m. Edgar M. Pennypacker (1905), m. Samuel Edgar Francis (1913), m. Douglas Campbell (1922)
          • Melchior Beltzhoover Mason (born 1812) m. Mary Daily
            • Melchior Beltzhoover Mason, Jr. m. Maud Reide (1889)
            • Thomson Mason m. Mary Collins
            • Virginia Wallace Mason McMasters m. R.W. McMasters (1883)
            • Sarah Elizabeth Mason Sanford m. Walter Lewis Sanford (1882)
          • John Thomson Mason, Jr. (1815–1873) m. Margaret Augusta Cowan (1842)
            • Louise Gilmer Mason Terry (1844–1921) m. Silas Wright Terry (1873)
            • William Temple Thomson Mason (1845–1847)
            • Elizabeth Mason Porter (born 1848) m. Theoderich Porter
            • John Thomson Mason (born 1850)
          • Thomson Mason (1818–1848)
          • Virginia Wallace Mason (1820–1858)
        • Ann Thomson Mason Chichester (1769–1817) m. Richard McCarty Chichester (c. 1788)
        • Dorothea "Anne" Anna Thomson Mason Hirst (1778–1822) m. Thomas Hirst (1798)
        • Westwood Thomson Mason (1780–1826) m. Ann Noland (1806)
        • William Temple Thomson Mason (1782–1862) m. Ann Eliza Carroll (1812)
          • Temple Anna Mason (1813–1849) m. Catherine Stayman
          • Nicholas Carroll Mason (died 1873)
          • Maria Louisa Mason
          • Mary Carter Mason (died 1897)
          • Charles Carroll Mason (died 1866)
          • Euphan Mason
          • Ann Elizabeth Carroll Thomson Mason Magill (1815–1844) m. Henry Daingerfield Magill (1833)
          • Westwood Thomson Mason (1819–1853)
          • William Temple Thomson Mason, Jr. (1820–1891) m. Catherine Carroll
          • Thomas Henry Carroll Mason (c. 1822–1838)
          • John Thomson Mason (1827–1891) m. Mary Barnes Johnson
            • William Temple Mason (1854–1892) m. Maud Rager (1870)
            • John Thomson Mason (1856–1924)
            • Thomas Rinaldo Mason (born 1858)
            • Mary Carter Mason (1859–1945)
        • George Thomson Mason (died 1873)
    • Nicholson Mason (1694–1715 or 1716)
    • French Mason (1695–1748) m. Mary Nicholson
      • Leannah Mason Talbot m. William Talbot (1741)
      • Rosanna Mason Simpson m. Gilbert Simpson (1751)
      • George Mason of Pohick (died 1800) m. (?) Roane
        • French Mason (died 1801) m. Mary Ann Major
          • Catherine Major Mason Scott (1798–1873) m. William Scott (1823)
        • Aminta Mason Hoffman Graham Grimes m. Peter Hoffman, m. Elijah Graham, m. (?) Grimes
        • Mary Mason (died 1804)
      • French Mason, Jr. (1738–1769) m. Ann Thomson (1762)
        • Sally Mason Tartanson (born 1760) m. Francis Tartanson
        • Catherine Mason Butt (born 1764) m. (?) Butt
        • Francis Mason (born 1766)
        • French Mason III (born 1768)
      • Lucretia Mason Speake (1740–1816) m. Robert Speake (1759)
    • Mary Mason Fitzhugh Strother (born c. 1700) m. George Fitzhugh, m. Benjamin Strother
    • Simpha Rosa Ann Field Mason Dinwiddie Bronaugh (1703–1761) m. John Dinwiddie (1716), m. Jeremiah Bronaugh, Jr. (1729)
    • Catherine Mason Mercer (1707–1750) m. John Mercer (1725)
    • Gerard Mason
    • Thomas Mason
    • Francis Mason (born 1711)
    • Sarah Mason Chamberlain Mastin Brooke (born 1715) m. Roger Chamberlain, m. Francis M. Mastin, m. Thomas Brooke

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