Joseph and Sophia Mason (NY -> VT)

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Melissa Warner

Joseph and Sophia Mason (NY -> VT)

Legg inn av Melissa Warner » 31 jan 2005 23:15:58

Looking for any information on this family to determine if my ancestor fits
into it:

Joseph Mason, born in Canada around 1818 on 1850 census and 1810 on 1860
census. In 1850 Joseph is living with 7 year old son Joseph and 18 year old
wife Sophia, so she was possibly his second wife. This was in Black Brook,
Clinton Co., NY.

In 1860, Joseph and Sophia are living in Saranac, Clinton Co., NY, with 11
year old Joseph, 7 year old Almina, 5 year old Alexander, 2 year old
Aldolfus, and 1 month old Sophia. In 1870, Joseph and Sophia are still in
Saranac with Alexander, Sophia, 6 year old Esther and 2 year old Peter.

In 1880, Sophia is a widow living in Colchester, Chittenden Co., VT, with
Alexander, Esther, Peter, 7 year old Ellen, and grandson Alexander Jr., 1
year old. Ellen was born in Vermont, so my guess is Joseph died in
Colchester between 1873 and 1880.

The only child I have been able to follow through census records so far is
Alexander. In 1900, he is living in Colchester with wife Mary and children
Alexander Jr., Mary, Phoebe, Emery, and Lena, as well as a granddaughter
Lena Laflash. (I don't know whose daughter she might be.) In 1910 he is
living in Milton, Chittenden Co., VT with sons Alexander and Emery. In 1920,
he is in Milton with son Alexander and grandson Frederick, and in 1930 he is
in Milton with son Alexander.

Alexander Mason, Jr. appears on the SSDI, b. 7 Aug. 1880, d. Jun 1963 with
no places given.

"My" Esther Mason was born in New York on November 28, 1865. She married
William Jones and moved to Dakota Co., MN and had four daughters: Jennie,
Lydia, Elizabeth, and Cora Jones. She and William divorced and she married
Frederick Leder in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN and had at least 4 more
children: Cary, Kipling, a baby boy, and Opie Leder. In 1904 the family
moved to North Dakota. We have been unable to find her on the 1910 census,
but in 1911 she purchased land in Strege, McHenry Co., ND where she lived
until she died March 15, 1941. One of her granddaughters remembers that she
had a sister named Sophia but no other information.

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