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Mason, Sanford (b. 1822)
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The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, 
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by Hu Maxwell
The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899

Page 430

Sanford Mason, born in 1822 in what is now Taylor County, son of
Thomas N. and Lydia (Goodwin) Mason, was married December 5, 1839,
near Pruntytown, to Rosanna, daughter of Edward and Nancy (Prunty)
Fleming. Children, Emily, Edward J., Elmore, Perry P., Mary Etta,
John F., Lydia Jane and Thomas N. He is a member of the Missionary
Baptist Church, a Republican, a farmer living on the waters of
Pleasant Creek. Mr. Mason was one of the first superintendents of
the Fairmont and Beverly pike, was three times elected Justice of
the Peace. The grandfather, Thomas T. Mason, came from New
Hampshire and settled in Harrison County, and the grandfather on
his mother's side, Franklin Goodwin, came from England, and
according to a custom of the time, was sold into servitude for a
stated time to pay for his passage across the sea, and he
afterwards settled in Harrison County, now Taylor. Thomas T. Mason
was born in Taylor County in 1794, and his wife two years later. He
fought in the War 1812. The subject of this sketch came to Barbour
in 1847 and settled on the river where he lived till 1865. His
Grandfather Mason's children were Nancy, Martha and Benjamin, and
his father's were Sarah, Mary, Nancy, Sanford, Henson, Harrison and
Thomas N. Pruntytown was named from the father of Nancy Prunty.

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