Samuel A. Mason
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
Rev. Samuel A. Mason, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and editor and publisher of the Agricultural Wheel, of Commerce, Mo., was born in Madison County, Tenn., in 1842. He is a son of William B. and Aquilla Ann (Brown) Mason, natives of Robinson County, Tenn., born in 1805 and 1819 respectively. Both the Mason and Brown families immigrated from England to the United States. The former settled in Pennsylvania, and the latter in Virginia, and descendants from each family were among the early settlers of Tennessee. William B. Mason was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He died in 1850, after which his widow married Dr. Franklin Richard Dallam, of Mayfield, Ky., who died in 1868. She died in 1871. To her and William B. Mason were born four children: Samuel A., John B. (now deceased), James O., of Arkansas, and Laura B., of Tennessee. After the death of his father, Samuel A. was reared by his mother, and received a good education, having spent four or five years in Graves College. During the war he served as lieutenant in Company B, Sixth Tennessee Infantry (Confederate) and when peace was restored returned to his mother's home and remained two years. He joined the Memphis conference of Tennessee, but in 1872 was transferred to St. Louis conference, since which time he has been stationed as pastor at Caledonia, Mount Olivet, Belmont, Bertrand, Licking, Rolla, Labadie, Manchester and Commerce. In 1885 he took charge of the Scott County Agricultural Wheel, established by and devoted to the interest of that organization. There are now over 1,200 names on its subscription list. In 1873 Rev. Mason was united in marriage with Mary A. Carr, of Caledonia, Mo. To them have been born six children: Munson (deceased), Anna Belle (deceased), Ella Moore, Katie May, Susan A. and Cecil E. Rev. Mason is an earnest minister, a royal Arch Mason, a member of the A.O.U.W. and of the I.O.O.F.
Submitted by Connie Perkins
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