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Terry Mason's Family History Site50,586 names. Major lines: Allen, Beck, Borden, Buck, Burden, Carpenter, Carper, Cobb, Cook, Cornell, Cowan, Daffron, Davis, Downing, Faubion, Fauntleroy, Fenter, Fishback, Foulks, Gray, Harris, Heimbach, Henn, Holland, Holtzclaw, Jackson, Jameson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Mason, Massengill, McAnnally, Moore, Morgan, Overstreet, Price, Peck, Rice, Richardson, Rogers, Samuel, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Wade, Warren, Weeks, Webb, Wodell, Yeiser. |
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Ref: Early Families of Montg. Co by Harry W. Mills, 1947.
Ref: Letter from Hazel Mason Boyd quoting research notes from Mr. L.M. Pearce of San Antonio, Tx. Mr. Pearce indicates that this James R. Mason is buried in "Toleda Settlement" about five miles from Punta Gorda, British Honduras, Central America.
U.S. Veterans Cemeteries
Veteran's Rank: MOMM1
Branch: US Navy
Last known address: 1200 Bailey Avenue Chattanooga , TN 37404
Birth Date: 12 Aug 1924
Death Date: 22 Oct 1977
Veteran Service Start Date: 21 Mar 1943
Veteran Service End Date: 3 Jan 1946
Interment Date: 25 Oct 1977
Cemetery: Chattanooga National Cemetery
Buried At: Section Bb Site 647
Cemetery URL: [ http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp/chattanooga.htm ]
Died of cancer of the face.
For anyone interested the the Pearces & the Toledo Settlement, there is a recently published book that is of interest:
Simmons, Donald C., Jr., Confederate settlements in British Honduras, McFarland & Co.,Jefferson, N.C. 2001. ISBN 0-7864-1016-7 www.mcfarlandpub.com [HYPERLINK: http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-1016-3 ]
Will dated 1784 in Lincoln, KY.
Ref: Letter from L.M.Pearce in 1973. file - Col. James Mason indicates that John and two brother (Adam & Conrad) settled in Lincoln Co., Ky. and built Carpenter's Station as protection from the Indians. He also says that unconfirmed and unpublished data in DAR library, Washington, D.C. indicates that John, etc. were sons of George a french hugenot who left Rochelle, France.
RESEARCHER-BIRTH: ManyAnn Hormuth [MPateHorm@alumni.utexas.net] wrote T.Mason on 3 Sep 2003, "The year of birth is listed as 1725 on the Memorial marker at the Carpenter Station Cemetery."
Dr. George CARPENTER OR ZIMMERMAN
NAME: Zimmermann is a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) occupational name for a carpenter -- Zimbermann in Middle High German. Sometimes our ancestors used the English-version of their surnames after they immigrated.
RESEARCHER: Information received by T.Mason from Betty Moses [BMoses4999@aol.com] on 13 Apr 2003. "On July 18, 1778 last will and testament of George Zimmerman, alias Carpenter, was returned to court and approved."
REFERENCE: George Zimmerman, the Immigrant and his Zimmerman - Carpenter Descendants. Jan 1984. Virdie Hodnett Egger
HYPERLINK: [ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carpenter/manuscript.html ]
HYPERLINK: [ http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/QueryMSAccess.asp ]Valley Forge Muster Rolls:
Personal ID: VA29279
Last Name: CARPENTER First Name: GEORGE Suffix:
Rank: Private Rank Type: Rank and File Ethnicity:
Brigade: Muhlenburg Company: Capt Thomas Hamilton
State: VA Regiment: 1 VA Division: 5th Division
Monthly Muster Roll Status
December 1777: Present
January 1778: Present
February 1778: Present
March 1778: Died
RESEARCHER: Lois J. Masters [ljmasters@yahoo.com]
* Tax Lists of Lincoln Co., Kentucky (1800 and most yrs of life)
* Probate Records of Lincoln Co., Kentucky
* Land and Deed Records of Lincoln Co., Kentucky: FHL192238: 15 June 1784 Hugh Logan & Sarah, his wife to John McGill; 20 Sep 1785; 2 August 1787 Hugh Logan and Sarah, his wife; 21 Oct 1788 Hugh Logan & Sarah, his wife;
* Court Records of Lincoln Co., Kentucky
* Marriage Records of Augusta Co., Virginia
* Talbert, Charles Gano; BENJAMIN LOGAN; KENTUCKY FRONTIERSMAN
* Warner F. Wood, Logan-Wood Collection; University of Missouri Library Marriage Date
Mr. Lawson Pearce says, "If you can believe published data, this ancestor through the Woods includes Edward I, King of England."
Came to Virginia in 1720. Info. provided by Hazel M. Boyd, DAR, copied for her by Mrs. Oldham.