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Angelica <I>Gear</I> Mason

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Angelica Gear Mason

Birth
Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
29 Mar 1873 (aged 68)
Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 180 Lot 8 Grave 2
Memorial ID
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Daughter of Hezekiah Gear of Pittsfield, Mass.

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Angelica (1804-1873), married Charles Mason in Galena, IL, on August 1, 1837 by Angelica's brother Reverend Ezekiel Gilbert Gear.

Angelica and Charles had three children: Sarah Gilbert, Angelica Emily, and Mary Josephine Mason.

Angelica Emily Mason, their daughter was born 1842, and died 1851.

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Burlington Hawk Eye, Burlington, IA, Mar. 30, 1873, p. 4

Died.

In this city, Saturday evening, March, 29th, at half past seven o'clock, Mrs. Angelica Mason nee Gear, wife of the Hon. Chas. Mason, aged 65 years. Suddenly attacked on Thursday last by that insidious disease cerebro spinal meningitis, with a delicate organization and an enfeebled constitution, no remedial agents could arrest the fatal malady.

One of the earliest settlers of the city, with occasional intervals of temporary residence at Washington City, while her husband held official station, she was known and endeared to a large circle of friends, by the Christian graces of her character and the quiet and unobtrusive example of her daily life. Choosing the true mission of womanhood in the home and household, she sought and conferred the happiness with which the wife and mother brightens the hearthstone.

In the matured ripeness of duties performed, and the rounded fulness of a perfect life, deplored by those who knew her in the tender relations of the family, mourned by surviving friends, less familiar with the beauty of her domestic life, and surrounded by the elegancies and luxuries of her dwelling, she closeld her eyes on the sunshine of this visible world, in its gathering darkness, to open them to a higher glory in the mansions of Him "Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns."

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Daughter of Hezekiah Gear of Pittsfield, Mass.

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Angelica (1804-1873), married Charles Mason in Galena, IL, on August 1, 1837 by Angelica's brother Reverend Ezekiel Gilbert Gear.

Angelica and Charles had three children: Sarah Gilbert, Angelica Emily, and Mary Josephine Mason.

Angelica Emily Mason, their daughter was born 1842, and died 1851.

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Burlington Hawk Eye, Burlington, IA, Mar. 30, 1873, p. 4

Died.

In this city, Saturday evening, March, 29th, at half past seven o'clock, Mrs. Angelica Mason nee Gear, wife of the Hon. Chas. Mason, aged 65 years. Suddenly attacked on Thursday last by that insidious disease cerebro spinal meningitis, with a delicate organization and an enfeebled constitution, no remedial agents could arrest the fatal malady.

One of the earliest settlers of the city, with occasional intervals of temporary residence at Washington City, while her husband held official station, she was known and endeared to a large circle of friends, by the Christian graces of her character and the quiet and unobtrusive example of her daily life. Choosing the true mission of womanhood in the home and household, she sought and conferred the happiness with which the wife and mother brightens the hearthstone.

In the matured ripeness of duties performed, and the rounded fulness of a perfect life, deplored by those who knew her in the tender relations of the family, mourned by surviving friends, less familiar with the beauty of her domestic life, and surrounded by the elegancies and luxuries of her dwelling, she closeld her eyes on the sunshine of this visible world, in its gathering darkness, to open them to a higher glory in the mansions of Him "Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns."

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  • Created by: pmfrench
  • Added: Nov 7, 2012
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100322847/angelica-mason: accessed ), memorial page for Angelica Gear Mason (31 Jul 1804–29 Mar 1873), Find a Grave Memorial ID 100322847, citing Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA; Maintained by pmfrench (contributor 47453952).