Marriage and Children
Mason married Elizabeth "Bettie" Harrison Nelson, daughter of Keating Lewis Simmons Nelson and his wife Julia Ann Rogers, at St. Stephen's Church on 18 August 1875. The couple had six children:
- Richard Nelson Mason (26 June 1876–22 November 1940)
- Julia Nelson Mason Matthews (23 January 1878–27 December 1964)
- Lucy Randolph Mason Moffett (31 January 1880–1 April 1965)
- Margaret Thornton Mason (7 February 1882–February 1884)
- Mary Wallace Mason Patchin (26 April 1884–28 August 1963)
- Susan Josephine Beverley Mason Easley (17 January 1888–31 July 1962)
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or children:
“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too—unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child’s trouble.”
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)