Excerpt from diary of Gen Dabney H Maury:
During the day Captain Mason was brought in, and lay in one of the rooms opening upon the mainhall, where I was. A cannon- ball had torn his leg, but he was very bright and game. He and I often talked of the fine times we would have at the Virginia Springs in the coming summer. Poor fellow! He neversaw them again. Two or three weeks later blood poison set in, and he died soon after being taken to Jalapa. His history was a sorrowful one. The only son of Armstead Mason, who fell in a duel with his kinsman,Colonel McCarthy Stevens, Mason inherited his father's fine estate of Selma, in Loudon County, where he lived extravagantly. A few yearsbefore his death he married; his wife died within a year, and after that all went ill with Mason. When his property was all gone, he procured a
captaincy in the Rifles, and died bravely, a representative gentleman of the old times.
end excerpt
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Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars_
1894 by General Dabney Herndon Maury - USA Minister to Colombia, S.A.;
Founder of the Southern Historical Society
edited, republished & (c) July 4, 1993 by Wm. Maury Morris II,[email protected] All Rights Reserved
Source (2) Gunston Hall website:
Descendants of George Mason, 1629-1686
Person Page 35
Stevens was born in 1819. He was the son of Armistead Thomson Mason and Charlotte Eliza Taylor. He married Sally Inness Forbes on 14 February 1843.1 Stevens died before 14 June 1847.2 He was buried on 29 August 1848 at Leesburg, Va; "On no similar occasion has Leesburg ever seen so large a multitude of people, as assembled to do honor to the memory of Captain Stevens T. Mason..."3
Citations
[S135] Alexandria Gazette 3.
[S105] Alexandria Gazette, 28 & 29 June 1847.
[S106] Alexandria Gazette.
During the day Captain Mason was brought in, and lay in one of the rooms opening upon the mainhall, where I was. A cannon- ball had torn his leg, but he was very bright and game. He and I often talked of the fine times we would have at the Virginia Springs in the coming summer. Poor fellow! He neversaw them again. Two or three weeks later blood poison set in, and he died soon after being taken to Jalapa. His history was a sorrowful one. The only son of Armstead Mason, who fell in a duel with his kinsman,Colonel McCarthy Stevens, Mason inherited his father's fine estate of Selma, in Loudon County, where he lived extravagantly. A few yearsbefore his death he married; his wife died within a year, and after that all went ill with Mason. When his property was all gone, he procured a
captaincy in the Rifles, and died bravely, a representative gentleman of the old times.
end excerpt
www.ibiblio.org
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars_
1894 by General Dabney Herndon Maury - USA Minister to Colombia, S.A.;
Founder of the Southern Historical Society
edited, republished & (c) July 4, 1993 by Wm. Maury Morris II,[email protected] All Rights Reserved
Source (2) Gunston Hall website:
Descendants of George Mason, 1629-1686
Person Page 35
Stevens was born in 1819. He was the son of Armistead Thomson Mason and Charlotte Eliza Taylor. He married Sally Inness Forbes on 14 February 1843.1 Stevens died before 14 June 1847.2 He was buried on 29 August 1848 at Leesburg, Va; "On no similar occasion has Leesburg ever seen so large a multitude of people, as assembled to do honor to the memory of Captain Stevens T. Mason..."3
Citations
[S135] Alexandria Gazette 3.
[S105] Alexandria Gazette, 28 & 29 June 1847.
[S106] Alexandria Gazette.
Excerpt from diary of Gen Dabney H Maury:
During the day Captain Mason was brought in, and lay in one of the rooms opening upon the mainhall, where I was. A cannon- ball had torn his leg, but he was very bright and game. He and I often talked of the fine times we would have at the Virginia Springs in the coming summer. Poor fellow! He neversaw them again. Two or three weeks later blood poison set in, and he died soon after being taken to Jalapa. His history was a sorrowful one. The only son of Armstead Mason, who fell in a duel with his kinsman,Colonel McCarthy Stevens, Mason inherited his father's fine estate of Selma, in Loudon County, where he lived extravagantly. A few yearsbefore his death he married; his wife died within a year, and after that all went ill with Mason. When his property was all gone, he procured a
captaincy in the Rifles, and died bravely, a representative gentleman of the old times.
end excerpt
www.ibiblio.org
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars_
1894 by General Dabney Herndon Maury - USA Minister to Colombia, S.A.;
Founder of the Southern Historical Society
edited, republished & (c) July 4, 1993 by Wm. Maury Morris II,[email protected] All Rights Reserved
Source (2) Gunston Hall website:
Descendants of George Mason, 1629-1686
Person Page 35
Stevens was born in 1819. He was the son of Armistead Thomson Mason and Charlotte Eliza Taylor. He married Sally Inness Forbes on 14 February 1843.1 Stevens died before 14 June 1847.2 He was buried on 29 August 1848 at Leesburg, Va; "On no similar occasion has Leesburg ever seen so large a multitude of people, as assembled to do honor to the memory of Captain Stevens T. Mason..."3
Citations
[S135] Alexandria Gazette 3.
[S105] Alexandria Gazette, 28 & 29 June 1847.
[S106] Alexandria Gazette.
During the day Captain Mason was brought in, and lay in one of the rooms opening upon the mainhall, where I was. A cannon- ball had torn his leg, but he was very bright and game. He and I often talked of the fine times we would have at the Virginia Springs in the coming summer. Poor fellow! He neversaw them again. Two or three weeks later blood poison set in, and he died soon after being taken to Jalapa. His history was a sorrowful one. The only son of Armstead Mason, who fell in a duel with his kinsman,Colonel McCarthy Stevens, Mason inherited his father's fine estate of Selma, in Loudon County, where he lived extravagantly. A few yearsbefore his death he married; his wife died within a year, and after that all went ill with Mason. When his property was all gone, he procured a
captaincy in the Rifles, and died bravely, a representative gentleman of the old times.
end excerpt
www.ibiblio.org
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars_
1894 by General Dabney Herndon Maury - USA Minister to Colombia, S.A.;
Founder of the Southern Historical Society
edited, republished & (c) July 4, 1993 by Wm. Maury Morris II,[email protected] All Rights Reserved
Source (2) Gunston Hall website:
Descendants of George Mason, 1629-1686
Person Page 35
Stevens was born in 1819. He was the son of Armistead Thomson Mason and Charlotte Eliza Taylor. He married Sally Inness Forbes on 14 February 1843.1 Stevens died before 14 June 1847.2 He was buried on 29 August 1848 at Leesburg, Va; "On no similar occasion has Leesburg ever seen so large a multitude of people, as assembled to do honor to the memory of Captain Stevens T. Mason..."3
Citations
[S135] Alexandria Gazette 3.
[S105] Alexandria Gazette, 28 & 29 June 1847.
[S106] Alexandria Gazette.
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