1884 - 1983 (98 years)
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| Name |
MASON, George McClellan |
| Birth |
Jun 1884 |
Crisfield, MD  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| FindaGrave |
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| Residence |
1900 |
Asbury, MD [1] |
| _COLOR |
11 |
| Death |
2 May 1983 |
Norfolk, VA |
| Burial |
Norfolk, VA |
Address:
Forest Lawn Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I37520 |
Puffers |
| Last Modified |
12 Dec 2019 |
| Father |
MASON, James R., b. Sep 1854, Crisfield, MD d. 24 Jul 1943, Norfolk, VA (Age 88 years) |
| Mother |
WARD, Mary Travis, b. May 1860, Crisfield, MD d. 27 Feb 1945, Richmond, VA (Age 84 years) |
| Family ID |
F11037 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- George Mason and his wife, the former Leila L. Riggin, met in their hometown of Crisfield, MD, when both worked in a shop weaving strawberry baskets. He was 20 and she was 16 ½, when they were married. After their marriage Mr. Mason went into the mercantile business in Crisfield.
In 1926, the Masons moved to Norfolk where his brother James was operating a restaurant, "The I. L. Snowden and Mason Seafood Restaurant." The Mason brothers, including William P., bought out Snowden and began a 47-year career as Norfolk restaurateurs, as Mason Bros. Seafood Restaurants.
Mason closed up "Norfolk's Oldest Seafood Restaurant" on December 15, 1953, but the Mason name lived on. His son, L. A. Mason, was the proprietor of Mason's Seafood Restaurant at 4019 Granby Street until the late 1970s.
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| Sources |
- [S304] _1900 United States Federal Census, Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Asbury, Somerset, Maryland; Roll: T623_31077_4120212; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1240627.
Record for James R Mason
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