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The Mason family to which Hon. John W. Mason belongs is descended from a
very old English family. His great-grandfather, a Methodist preacher,
came to America just before or immediately after the revolutionary war,
andsettled near Baltimore. His great-grandfather and his grandfather,
with threeor four brothers, about 1790 moved into what is now Garrett
county, Maryland, and thence across the line into Preston county,
Virginia. His father, JohnMcClure Mason, son of John Mason, was born in
Preston county, Virginia, nearthe present site of Terra Alta, September
3, 1815.
His grandmother, Sarah Mason, was of Scotch-Irish descent, or perhaps
more correctly speaking Protestant-Irish. Her maiden name was Casey,
daughter of Nicholas Casey, of Romney. Peter Casey, her grandfather,
moved to Moorefield, Virginia, from Philadelphiain 1736. Several of the
sons were revolutionary soldiers. Nicholas seems tohave been the only
one of the sons who remained in that section after the war, and he
settled at Romney, where he lived for many years, and raised a large
family of sons and daughters, among whom was Sarah Casey, John W. Mason's
grandmother. The name Casey is extinct in that vicinity. All the sons
moved to other states, but several of the daughters of Nicholas Casey
married in Hardy and Hampshire counties, and among their descendants are
the Parsons, Harnesses, Pancakes, Bradys, and Inskips.
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