Mary Mason (1791-1813) married Benjamin Howard a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives; Congressman from Kentucky; Governor of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory; and Governor of Missouri Territory. Howard County, Missouri is named in his honor. Great granddaughter of Abraham Barnes.
Mary Howard (43767144)
Suggested edit: Middle name of Thomson from Kentucky marriage records and writings of family history.
Contributor: Deb Redmon (47383009) •
Burial not confirmed in this cemetery.
ant Memorial Trees
Left by Anonymous on 31 Jul 2020
November 15, 1914, Richmond Times Dispatch: The interesting PRESTON genealogy recently published contains the following mention of the mother of Gen. BENJAMIN HOWARD:"MARY PRESTON, the fourth daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH PRESTON, was a woman of superior understanding and highly cultivated. She married JOHN HOWARD, of Virginia, and removed to Kentucky, where she died in 1814. The names of her children and other descendants are given. The marriage of her son, Benjamin, is thus reported in one of the newspapers of the day:"Benjamin Howard, Governor of the Louisiana Territory, married Mary Thomson, daughter of the late Stevens Thomson Mason of Loudoun County, VA, 14th February 1811." Mrs. Howard died a little over two years after her marriage, and her brother, Armistead Thomson Mason, wrote from the camp near Crany Island, where he was stationed, to his brother in Kentucky on the 20th of May 1813: "Your letter of the 21st March, containing the afflicting intelligence of the death of our beloved sister, Polly, found us sufferings under all the agony of grief in which it must have plunged us. Mr. Lacy's letter from you bringing the same melancholy information, altho' dated subsequently, had reached us several days before. That event has, indeed, struck a fatal blow at the happiness of our whole family. Except the death of our most venerated and ever to be lamented father, it's far the haviest (sic) calamity with which it has pleased Heaven to visit us. It has inflicted a wound on my heart from which it will never recover. She was my most beloved sister. She was so amiable, so accomplished, so intelligent. We had all promised ourselves so much pleasure and happiness in her society on her return to the bosom of her friends. We had already begun to name the day on which we should see her. How sad, how overwhelming the disappointment. Our poor, distracted mother – her sorrow are great indeed, and never ending. Her happiness is gone. I was compelled under military orders, and just at that time, to leave her in a state of distress not to be described. I have received one letter from her since. From my wife and friends with her I learn that she is composed, but in deep melancholy, and it would have greatly increased to leave her under such affliction. I can still hear her exclaim: "Oh! Such a child as I have lost! She had promised never to leave me again, to live with me, and be the comfort of my declining life." She has, indeed, lost a child, and we have lost a sister whose purity and excellence has seldom been equaled, never surpassed. Be this our consolation, we are separated for a short time only; she is in heaven with our father, and we shall all meet again. -------P.S. Was my dead deceased sister's likeness ever taken? If it was, I will give the best painter in Lexington, or that country, his price to copy it well for me as large as life. And I beg you to have it done for me." JOHN THOMSON MASON, to whom the above letter was addressed, wrote to "General Howard, St. Louis, Missouri Territory," from Lexington, KY, November 1, 1813: "It give me pleasure to hear you have returned from your expedition, and I trust there will be now an end of Indian troubles, and I hope that the duties of your station will permit a visit to us soon. I send you the official report of Harrison's. You will see what a good story he makes out for himself. But some particulars given privately, yet authentically, show him what I have long since thought with many others, a general upon paper. Johnson has fought well and bravely, but is severely wounded. He is, however, said to be out of danger, and on his way home. Mr. Barry has not yet arrived, but is expected in a few days. Our friends in Virginia were well, when last I heard from them. Armistead has got home from Norfolk, and full of a military life. General Parker goes, as you have seen, to the North, and William parker, who accompanies him, is said to command at least a regiment, if not a brigade. My family unites in their best regards to you, and in the expectation of having you once again, and soon, on our family circle." It has been a tradition in his wife's family that General HOWARD died of a broken heart, from grief at the loss of his lovely and beloved young wife. He made his will September 8, 18134, and begins it with these words: "Whereas I have embarked in military life, which involved personal hazard, I have deemed it prudent to make the following disposition of my property..." He named as his executors his brother-in-law Robert Wickliffe, and "his worthy friend and companion, John T. Mason, Jr." The latter seems to have settled up the estate of General Howard, and all these papers, including the will, are now before me. All of his property in Kentucky was to be equally divided among his sisters, "subject to the use of my parents during life, and to be under the control and management of my mother during her life. Should my father survive her, she is authorized to make by will such arrangements as she thinks proper for his genteel and comfortable support out of it." The property which he held in the Territory of Missouri was to go to his nephew, Benjamin Howard Payne. Of the property which he held in right of his "beloved deceased wife," General Howard left $1,000 each to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Mason; Colonel Armistead Mason, her son; and her two daughters, Mrs. William T. Barry and Mrs. William Mason McCarty, and the residue, both real and personal, to his wife's brother, John T. Mason, Jr. According to the Preston genealogy, Elizabeth Howard married Edward Payne of Fayette County, Kentucky, and had six sons. Of these, all married except Benjamin Howard, the third son, who died young. Edward Payne, the eldest son, indorses several of the accounts paid by John T. Mason. [There is more to this, and if anyone is interested, please feel free to contact me.] seeflowers left Left by Virginia S. Mylius on 3 Oct 2011
Mary Howard (43767144)
Suggested edit: Middle name of Thomson from Kentucky marriage records and writings of family history.
Contributor: Deb Redmon (47383009) •
Burial not confirmed in this cemetery.
ant Memorial Trees
Left by Anonymous on 31 Jul 2020
November 15, 1914, Richmond Times Dispatch: The interesting PRESTON genealogy recently published contains the following mention of the mother of Gen. BENJAMIN HOWARD:"MARY PRESTON, the fourth daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH PRESTON, was a woman of superior understanding and highly cultivated. She married JOHN HOWARD, of Virginia, and removed to Kentucky, where she died in 1814. The names of her children and other descendants are given. The marriage of her son, Benjamin, is thus reported in one of the newspapers of the day:"Benjamin Howard, Governor of the Louisiana Territory, married Mary Thomson, daughter of the late Stevens Thomson Mason of Loudoun County, VA, 14th February 1811." Mrs. Howard died a little over two years after her marriage, and her brother, Armistead Thomson Mason, wrote from the camp near Crany Island, where he was stationed, to his brother in Kentucky on the 20th of May 1813: "Your letter of the 21st March, containing the afflicting intelligence of the death of our beloved sister, Polly, found us sufferings under all the agony of grief in which it must have plunged us. Mr. Lacy's letter from you bringing the same melancholy information, altho' dated subsequently, had reached us several days before. That event has, indeed, struck a fatal blow at the happiness of our whole family. Except the death of our most venerated and ever to be lamented father, it's far the haviest (sic) calamity with which it has pleased Heaven to visit us. It has inflicted a wound on my heart from which it will never recover. She was my most beloved sister. She was so amiable, so accomplished, so intelligent. We had all promised ourselves so much pleasure and happiness in her society on her return to the bosom of her friends. We had already begun to name the day on which we should see her. How sad, how overwhelming the disappointment. Our poor, distracted mother – her sorrow are great indeed, and never ending. Her happiness is gone. I was compelled under military orders, and just at that time, to leave her in a state of distress not to be described. I have received one letter from her since. From my wife and friends with her I learn that she is composed, but in deep melancholy, and it would have greatly increased to leave her under such affliction. I can still hear her exclaim: "Oh! Such a child as I have lost! She had promised never to leave me again, to live with me, and be the comfort of my declining life." She has, indeed, lost a child, and we have lost a sister whose purity and excellence has seldom been equaled, never surpassed. Be this our consolation, we are separated for a short time only; she is in heaven with our father, and we shall all meet again. -------P.S. Was my dead deceased sister's likeness ever taken? If it was, I will give the best painter in Lexington, or that country, his price to copy it well for me as large as life. And I beg you to have it done for me." JOHN THOMSON MASON, to whom the above letter was addressed, wrote to "General Howard, St. Louis, Missouri Territory," from Lexington, KY, November 1, 1813: "It give me pleasure to hear you have returned from your expedition, and I trust there will be now an end of Indian troubles, and I hope that the duties of your station will permit a visit to us soon. I send you the official report of Harrison's. You will see what a good story he makes out for himself. But some particulars given privately, yet authentically, show him what I have long since thought with many others, a general upon paper. Johnson has fought well and bravely, but is severely wounded. He is, however, said to be out of danger, and on his way home. Mr. Barry has not yet arrived, but is expected in a few days. Our friends in Virginia were well, when last I heard from them. Armistead has got home from Norfolk, and full of a military life. General Parker goes, as you have seen, to the North, and William parker, who accompanies him, is said to command at least a regiment, if not a brigade. My family unites in their best regards to you, and in the expectation of having you once again, and soon, on our family circle." It has been a tradition in his wife's family that General HOWARD died of a broken heart, from grief at the loss of his lovely and beloved young wife. He made his will September 8, 18134, and begins it with these words: "Whereas I have embarked in military life, which involved personal hazard, I have deemed it prudent to make the following disposition of my property..." He named as his executors his brother-in-law Robert Wickliffe, and "his worthy friend and companion, John T. Mason, Jr." The latter seems to have settled up the estate of General Howard, and all these papers, including the will, are now before me. All of his property in Kentucky was to be equally divided among his sisters, "subject to the use of my parents during life, and to be under the control and management of my mother during her life. Should my father survive her, she is authorized to make by will such arrangements as she thinks proper for his genteel and comfortable support out of it." The property which he held in the Territory of Missouri was to go to his nephew, Benjamin Howard Payne. Of the property which he held in right of his "beloved deceased wife," General Howard left $1,000 each to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Mason; Colonel Armistead Mason, her son; and her two daughters, Mrs. William T. Barry and Mrs. William Mason McCarty, and the residue, both real and personal, to his wife's brother, John T. Mason, Jr. According to the Preston genealogy, Elizabeth Howard married Edward Payne of Fayette County, Kentucky, and had six sons. Of these, all married except Benjamin Howard, the third son, who died young. Edward Payne, the eldest son, indorses several of the accounts paid by John T. Mason. [There is more to this, and if anyone is interested, please feel free to contact me.] seeflowers left Left by Virginia S. Mylius on 3 Oct 2011
Mary Mason (1791-1813) married Benjamin Howard a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives; Congressman from Kentucky; Governor of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory; and Governor of Missouri Territory. Howard County, Missouri is named in his honor. Great granddaughter of Abraham Barnes.
Mary Howard (43767144)
Suggested edit: Middle name of Thomson from Kentucky marriage records and writings of family history.
Contributor: Deb Redmon (47383009) •
Burial not confirmed in this cemetery.
ant Memorial Trees
Left by Anonymous on 31 Jul 2020
November 15, 1914, Richmond Times Dispatch: The interesting PRESTON genealogy recently published contains the following mention of the mother of Gen. BENJAMIN HOWARD:"MARY PRESTON, the fourth daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH PRESTON, was a woman of superior understanding and highly cultivated. She married JOHN HOWARD, of Virginia, and removed to Kentucky, where she died in 1814. The names of her children and other descendants are given. The marriage of her son, Benjamin, is thus reported in one of the newspapers of the day:"Benjamin Howard, Governor of the Louisiana Territory, married Mary Thomson, daughter of the late Stevens Thomson Mason of Loudoun County, VA, 14th February 1811." Mrs. Howard died a little over two years after her marriage, and her brother, Armistead Thomson Mason, wrote from the camp near Crany Island, where he was stationed, to his brother in Kentucky on the 20th of May 1813: "Your letter of the 21st March, containing the afflicting intelligence of the death of our beloved sister, Polly, found us sufferings under all the agony of grief in which it must have plunged us. Mr. Lacy's letter from you bringing the same melancholy information, altho' dated subsequently, had reached us several days before. That event has, indeed, struck a fatal blow at the happiness of our whole family. Except the death of our most venerated and ever to be lamented father, it's far the haviest (sic) calamity with which it has pleased Heaven to visit us. It has inflicted a wound on my heart from which it will never recover. She was my most beloved sister. She was so amiable, so accomplished, so intelligent. We had all promised ourselves so much pleasure and happiness in her society on her return to the bosom of her friends. We had already begun to name the day on which we should see her. How sad, how overwhelming the disappointment. Our poor, distracted mother – her sorrow are great indeed, and never ending. Her happiness is gone. I was compelled under military orders, and just at that time, to leave her in a state of distress not to be described. I have received one letter from her since. From my wife and friends with her I learn that she is composed, but in deep melancholy, and it would have greatly increased to leave her under such affliction. I can still hear her exclaim: "Oh! Such a child as I have lost! She had promised never to leave me again, to live with me, and be the comfort of my declining life." She has, indeed, lost a child, and we have lost a sister whose purity and excellence has seldom been equaled, never surpassed. Be this our consolation, we are separated for a short time only; she is in heaven with our father, and we shall all meet again. -------P.S. Was my dead deceased sister's likeness ever taken? If it was, I will give the best painter in Lexington, or that country, his price to copy it well for me as large as life. And I beg you to have it done for me." JOHN THOMSON MASON, to whom the above letter was addressed, wrote to "General Howard, St. Louis, Missouri Territory," from Lexington, KY, November 1, 1813: "It give me pleasure to hear you have returned from your expedition, and I trust there will be now an end of Indian troubles, and I hope that the duties of your station will permit a visit to us soon. I send you the official report of Harrison's. You will see what a good story he makes out for himself. But some particulars given privately, yet authentically, show him what I have long since thought with many others, a general upon paper. Johnson has fought well and bravely, but is severely wounded. He is, however, said to be out of danger, and on his way home. Mr. Barry has not yet arrived, but is expected in a few days. Our friends in Virginia were well, when last I heard from them. Armistead has got home from Norfolk, and full of a military life. General Parker goes, as you have seen, to the North, and William parker, who accompanies him, is said to command at least a regiment, if not a brigade. My family unites in their best regards to you, and in the expectation of having you once again, and soon, on our family circle." It has been a tradition in his wife's family that General HOWARD died of a broken heart, from grief at the loss of his lovely and beloved young wife. He made his will September 8, 18134, and begins it with these words: "Whereas I have embarked in military life, which involved personal hazard, I have deemed it prudent to make the following disposition of my property..." He named as his executors his brother-in-law Robert Wickliffe, and "his worthy friend and companion, John T. Mason, Jr." The latter seems to have settled up the estate of General Howard, and all these papers, including the will, are now before me. All of his property in Kentucky was to be equally divided among his sisters, "subject to the use of my parents during life, and to be under the control and management of my mother during her life. Should my father survive her, she is authorized to make by will such arrangements as she thinks proper for his genteel and comfortable support out of it." The property which he held in the Territory of Missouri was to go to his nephew, Benjamin Howard Payne. Of the property which he held in right of his "beloved deceased wife," General Howard left $1,000 each to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Mason; Colonel Armistead Mason, her son; and her two daughters, Mrs. William T. Barry and Mrs. William Mason McCarty, and the residue, both real and personal, to his wife's brother, John T. Mason, Jr. According to the Preston genealogy, Elizabeth Howard married Edward Payne of Fayette County, Kentucky, and had six sons. Of these, all married except Benjamin Howard, the third son, who died young. Edward Payne, the eldest son, indorses several of the accounts paid by John T. Mason. [There is more to this, and if anyone is interested, please feel free to contact me.] seeflowers left Left by Virginia S. Mylius on 3 Oct 2011
Mary Howard (43767144)
Suggested edit: Middle name of Thomson from Kentucky marriage records and writings of family history.
Contributor: Deb Redmon (47383009) •
Burial not confirmed in this cemetery.
ant Memorial Trees
Left by Anonymous on 31 Jul 2020
November 15, 1914, Richmond Times Dispatch: The interesting PRESTON genealogy recently published contains the following mention of the mother of Gen. BENJAMIN HOWARD:"MARY PRESTON, the fourth daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH PRESTON, was a woman of superior understanding and highly cultivated. She married JOHN HOWARD, of Virginia, and removed to Kentucky, where she died in 1814. The names of her children and other descendants are given. The marriage of her son, Benjamin, is thus reported in one of the newspapers of the day:"Benjamin Howard, Governor of the Louisiana Territory, married Mary Thomson, daughter of the late Stevens Thomson Mason of Loudoun County, VA, 14th February 1811." Mrs. Howard died a little over two years after her marriage, and her brother, Armistead Thomson Mason, wrote from the camp near Crany Island, where he was stationed, to his brother in Kentucky on the 20th of May 1813: "Your letter of the 21st March, containing the afflicting intelligence of the death of our beloved sister, Polly, found us sufferings under all the agony of grief in which it must have plunged us. Mr. Lacy's letter from you bringing the same melancholy information, altho' dated subsequently, had reached us several days before. That event has, indeed, struck a fatal blow at the happiness of our whole family. Except the death of our most venerated and ever to be lamented father, it's far the haviest (sic) calamity with which it has pleased Heaven to visit us. It has inflicted a wound on my heart from which it will never recover. She was my most beloved sister. She was so amiable, so accomplished, so intelligent. We had all promised ourselves so much pleasure and happiness in her society on her return to the bosom of her friends. We had already begun to name the day on which we should see her. How sad, how overwhelming the disappointment. Our poor, distracted mother – her sorrow are great indeed, and never ending. Her happiness is gone. I was compelled under military orders, and just at that time, to leave her in a state of distress not to be described. I have received one letter from her since. From my wife and friends with her I learn that she is composed, but in deep melancholy, and it would have greatly increased to leave her under such affliction. I can still hear her exclaim: "Oh! Such a child as I have lost! She had promised never to leave me again, to live with me, and be the comfort of my declining life." She has, indeed, lost a child, and we have lost a sister whose purity and excellence has seldom been equaled, never surpassed. Be this our consolation, we are separated for a short time only; she is in heaven with our father, and we shall all meet again. -------P.S. Was my dead deceased sister's likeness ever taken? If it was, I will give the best painter in Lexington, or that country, his price to copy it well for me as large as life. And I beg you to have it done for me." JOHN THOMSON MASON, to whom the above letter was addressed, wrote to "General Howard, St. Louis, Missouri Territory," from Lexington, KY, November 1, 1813: "It give me pleasure to hear you have returned from your expedition, and I trust there will be now an end of Indian troubles, and I hope that the duties of your station will permit a visit to us soon. I send you the official report of Harrison's. You will see what a good story he makes out for himself. But some particulars given privately, yet authentically, show him what I have long since thought with many others, a general upon paper. Johnson has fought well and bravely, but is severely wounded. He is, however, said to be out of danger, and on his way home. Mr. Barry has not yet arrived, but is expected in a few days. Our friends in Virginia were well, when last I heard from them. Armistead has got home from Norfolk, and full of a military life. General Parker goes, as you have seen, to the North, and William parker, who accompanies him, is said to command at least a regiment, if not a brigade. My family unites in their best regards to you, and in the expectation of having you once again, and soon, on our family circle." It has been a tradition in his wife's family that General HOWARD died of a broken heart, from grief at the loss of his lovely and beloved young wife. He made his will September 8, 18134, and begins it with these words: "Whereas I have embarked in military life, which involved personal hazard, I have deemed it prudent to make the following disposition of my property..." He named as his executors his brother-in-law Robert Wickliffe, and "his worthy friend and companion, John T. Mason, Jr." The latter seems to have settled up the estate of General Howard, and all these papers, including the will, are now before me. All of his property in Kentucky was to be equally divided among his sisters, "subject to the use of my parents during life, and to be under the control and management of my mother during her life. Should my father survive her, she is authorized to make by will such arrangements as she thinks proper for his genteel and comfortable support out of it." The property which he held in the Territory of Missouri was to go to his nephew, Benjamin Howard Payne. Of the property which he held in right of his "beloved deceased wife," General Howard left $1,000 each to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Mason; Colonel Armistead Mason, her son; and her two daughters, Mrs. William T. Barry and Mrs. William Mason McCarty, and the residue, both real and personal, to his wife's brother, John T. Mason, Jr. According to the Preston genealogy, Elizabeth Howard married Edward Payne of Fayette County, Kentucky, and had six sons. Of these, all married except Benjamin Howard, the third son, who died young. Edward Payne, the eldest son, indorses several of the accounts paid by John T. Mason. [There is more to this, and if anyone is interested, please feel free to contact me.] seeflowers left Left by Virginia S. Mylius on 3 Oct 2011
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