Notes for Martha "Patsy" Hicks

!A Brashear(S) Family History, Vol. 3 by Charles Brashear:
Daniel and Martha had children as follows:
1.Rebecca Mason m (1839) NEELAND J. COX
2.Elizabeth Ann Mason m (1841) THOMAS J. JONES
3.Jane Mason
4.Clememtine Mason was an invalid in1850, but recovered and was a teacher in MO in 1857
5.Susan Mason
6.Maria Matilda Mason
7.Robert T. Mason
8.Jason M. Mason
9.Nathaniel E. Mason
10.Phillip J. Mason
11.Daniel Marion Mason

One unverified report is to the effect that Daniel Mason made a trip to MO about 1835 to help in the settlement of the estate of his brother, Samuel Mason Jr. This report is significant because, if confirmed, it would mean that Daniel's father was Samuel Mason Sr. The report also indicates that Daniel Mason died in MO, but records in Roane County indicate that he died in Roane in August of 1839. Unfortunately, the Roane probate records in listing the children of Daniel and Martha (2nd wife) used no commas, hence the above listing could be in slight error.

One unverified report is to the effect that Daniel Mason made a trip to MO about 1835 to help in the settlement of the estate of his brother, Samuel Mason Jr. This report is significant because, if confirmed, it would mean that Daniel's father was Samuel Mason Sr. The report also indicates that Daniel Mason died in MO, but records in Roane County indicate that he died in Roane in August of 1839. Unfortunately, the Roane probate records in listing the children of Daniel and Martha (2nd wife) used no commas, hence the above listing could be in slight error.
After Daniel's death in 1839, his widow, Martha, experienced the usual difficulties of a widow with a house full of children. She got permission from the Court to sell her husband's estate in Roane in order to have money for the purchase of land in MO. In August, 1857, she wrote from Greene Co., MO, to her step?son, Thomas J. Mason, in Roane Co., telling him that they were all in reasonably good health, and that she was trying to give all the children a good education as requested by her late husband. She mentioned specifically that Clementine was a good scholar who had completed arithmetic, grammar, philosophy, botany, and chemistry, etc. and could teach English. Martha's young son, Robert Tunnell Mason, added a poetic post script to the letter:
"Robert T. Mason's hand and pen when this you see,
Remember me though many miles between us be."
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