Person:Keziah Mason (3)

Watchers
  • F.  Asa Mason (add)
  • M.  Beriah Fisher (add)
m. 7 May 1755
  1. Keziah Mason1770 - 1849
  2. Nathan Mason1778 -
m. 25 Mar 1789
  1. Reuben Allen1789 -
  2. Willard Allen1791 - 1792
  3. Willard Allen1793 -
  4. Martha Allen1796 - 1848
  5. Ira Allen1797 -
  6. Amos Allen1799 -
  7. Mary Allen1802 -
m. Aft 26 Jan 1808
m. 9 Nov 1826
Facts and Events
Name Keziah Mason
Gender Female
Birth[1] 22 Dec 1770 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 25 Mar 1789 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto William Pitt Allen
Marriage Aft 26 Jan 1808 Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United StatesIntentions
to David Cleveland
Marriage 9 Nov 1826 Dover, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Gen. Elijah Crane
Death[2][3][4] 12 Sep 1849 Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[2] Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Dedham (Massachusetts). Town Clerk; Julius Herbert Tuttle; Benjamin Fisher; and Don Gleason Hill. The early records of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts. (Dedham, Massachusetts: Dedham Transcript Press, 1886-1936)
    Vol. 1, p. 111.

    Kezia, daughter of Asa & Beria Mason, born December 22'd, 1770.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Find A Grave: Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, MA, in Find A Grave
    Keziah Mason Crane.

    In memory of
    MRS. KEZIAH CRANE,
    formerly widow of
    Mr. William P. Allen,
    who died
    Sept. 12, 1849:
    aged 76 years.

  3. Massachusetts. Probate Court (Norfolk County). Probate docket books, and record books (1793-1916). (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1970, 1987)
    Case 4654: Crane, Kezia Canton 1849.

    25 Oct 1849: Petition of heirs that Ezekiel Capen be appointed administrator. Signed by Willard Allen, Ira Allen, Mary A. Capen.
    1st Tuesday of November [6 Nov] 1849: In response to petition of Ezekiel Capen that Kezia Crane of Canton lately died leaving children Willard Allen, Ira Allen, Amos Allen & Mary A. Capen; grandchildren Mary Ann Derby, Ralph A Battelle, Willard Battelle, Caroline Battelle & Mary Battelle. 5 Nov 1849 Bond given by Ezekiel Capen of Canton.

  4. Given the death date, one would expect to find a death record. Often, a lack of a death record would indicate the death occurred outside of Massachusets, often living with a child or similar, even when she was buried here. Source:Cleveland, Edmund Janes. Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, p. 158, suggests she d. Pawtucket, RI, about 1847. The fact that she died in 1849, confirmed by a gravestone and dates in her probate, casts doubt on that. Her probate file calls her "of Canton",