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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Harry E. Mason
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Harry E. Mason
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| LAST NAME: Mason
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FIRST NAME: Harry
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MIDDLE NAME: E.
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| TITLE: Mr.
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GENDER: M
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MILITARY: Sgt. Maj. 30 BN ISG
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| BORN: Mar 1891
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DIED: 30 Oct 1918
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BURIED: Nov 1918
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| BIRTH PLACE: Kansas
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| DEATH PLACE: Fort Seward, Alaska
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NOTES:
IOOF - Harry Mason.
1900 KS CENSUS - Harry E. Mason, age 9, b. Mar 1891 in Kansas, is enumerated with Thadeus [Thaddeus], age 39, occupation farmer, b. Mar 1861 in Missouri, and Leila, age 30, mother of 5 children 4 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Oct 1869 in Kansas, along with Herbert A., age 11, b. Aug 1888 in Kansas, Edward, age 6, b.Dec 1893 in Nebraska, and Ralph, age 2, b. Jul 1897 in Kansas.
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OBITUARY:
Harry E. Mason Killed on Duty at Fort Seward
A telegram has been received in Salem, announcing the accidental death of Sergeant-Major Harry E. Mason, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Mason of North 16th Street. Sergeant-Major Mason was killed on duty at Fort Sewart, Alaska. He was 27 years old and leaves behind his parents, a wife and two children who will arrive with the body, also three brothers, Ralph of Salem, Edward of Camp Lewis, and Henry, of Alpine, Ore. Funeral arrangements which are in charge of by Terwilliger home, will be announced later.
Oregon Statesman 5 November 1918 8:6 & 7
Body Arrives From Alaska. Funeral arrangements are now under way for the burial of Sergeant Major Harry E. Mason, who died at Fort Sewart, Alaska, while with the 30th battalion of the United States guards through an accidental discharge of a gun: Mrs. Mason, who is now in a Seattle hospital with Spanish influenza, was unable to come, but her children and a brother of the deceased from Camp Lewis accompanied the remains to Salem.
Oregon Statesman 10 November 1918 5:3
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INSCRIPTION:
Harry E. Mason
1891 - 1918
Sgt. Maj. 30 BN ISG
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SOURCES:
LR
IOOF Register of Burials
S&H pg 24
1900 KS CENSUS (Washington Co., Highland, ED 132, sheet 9A)
OS 5 November 1918 8:6 & 7
OS 10 November 1918 5:3
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| LOT: 346
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SPACE: 1 SW N½
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