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Submitted: 3/17/14 • Approved: 3/17/14 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R29464-G29464-S3
March 30, 1849 - April 3, 1944
Fort Scott Tribune Monitor, April 8, 1944
Funeral services for Mary Mason, 97, one of Bourbon county's oldest pioneer resident, who died Wednesday, April 3, were held at the Methodist church at Uniontown Friday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. J. R. Williams officiating. He was assisted by the Rev. Charles Wogan.
Mary Francis Ralston, daughter of David T. and Mary Ann (Polly) Ralston, was born in Springfield, Mo., March 30, 1849, and passed away at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Roger Gollard of Neodesha, where she had been making her home for the past year owing to the ill health of her daughter, Margaret Pool, who had cared for her in her home at Uniontown the past 29 years.
At the age of six years she came from Missouri to Bourbon county with her parents in a covered wagon drawn by an ox-team, and settled on the old Ralston homestead six miles southwest of Uniontown, where she grew to womanhood. In 1868 she was married to B.F. Mason and resided on a farm adjoining her father's place until 1905 when she moved to Uniontown. Mr. Mason died a short time after the couple celebrated fiftieth wedding anniversary. To this union six children were born, four daughters and two sons.
Friends and relatives are interested in learning whether another Kansan has resided in the state or Bourbon county longer than Mrs. Mason.
Her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Minnie Brown and Mrs. Olive Keith, an infant son, Edward, and David preceded her in death. Two daughters survive, Margaret Ann Pool, Neodesha, and Pauline Etta Anderson of Portland, Ore. Also, one half-sister, Mrs. May Drake, Uniontown, and one half-brother, Elmer Ralston, Olympia, Wash. Fourteen grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren also survive, besides a host of other relatives and friends.
She united with the Methodist church when but a child and has been a devoted Christian these many years. She was also a charter member of the Royal Neighbor Lodge of Uniontown.
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Evelyn Jones Christensen
Contributed on 3/17/14
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