Martha “Patsy” Hicks Mason
BIRTH
1797
Surry County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH
Sep 1870 (aged 72–73)
Greene County, Missouri, USA
Residence: 1860 Cass, Greene, Missouri
Residence: 1850 Campbell, Greene, Missouri
Residence: 1870 Robberson, Greene, Missouri
After Daniel's death in 1839, his widow, Martha, experienced the usual difficulties of a widow with a house full of children. She got permission from the Court to sell her husband's estate in Roane Co. Tennessee, in order to have money for the purchase of land in Missouri. In August of 1857 she wrote from Greene County, MO, to her step-son, Thomas Jefferson Mason, in Roane County telling him that they were all in reasonably good health, and that she was trying to give all the children a good education as requested by her late husband. She mentioned specifically that Clementine was a good scholar who had completed arithmatic, grammar, philosophy, botany, and chemistry, etc. and could teach English. Marthas young son, Robert Tunnell Mason, adds a poetic post script to the letter: "Robert T. Mason's hand and pen when this you see, Remember me though many miles between us be."
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