Andrew Mason House & Mason Ancestors

Designated on the National Register of Historic Places as the [Andrew] Mason House circa 1910, at 204 Elm Street, is now plaqued as the Methodist Parsonage. 

Alvin and Amelia Newton Mason

The ancestry of the Mason family of Carteret County can be traced back to two brothers, William and George Mason, born in Pershore, Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, who left England for the new world. They came ashore in Norfolk, Virginia in January 1652. 

Descendants eventually moved to an area between the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, now Hyde County, North Carolina.

Born in Hyde County in 1745, Joshua Mason relocated to Hunting Quarters, now the town of Atlantic. He was the only Mason listed on the 1790 Carteret County census.  

Alvin and FDR circa 1918

Joshua Mason (1745-1811), the father of 1802 Caleb Mason and grandfather of James Hill Mason (1822-1908), was Andrew Jackson Mason's 3rd great grandfather.

In 1927 Andrew Jackson Mason (1902-1982) married Louise Kirkman 1906-1983, daughter of William Lawrence Kirkman 1882-1959 and Sadie Lee Dennis 1885-1965.

Andrew was the son of Alvin Thomas Mason Sr. (1879-1933) and Amelia Jane Newton (1883-1967) of Hunting Quarter, Carteret County, North Carolina. Alvin was the keeper of the Pilantary Hunting Club, near Portsmouth Island, who assisted then Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. This photograph appeared in a 1949 issue of Life Magazine--part of a collection of photographs from the life of F.D.R.

George Delaware Mason

Sarah Nelson Mason

Andrew’s Mason grandparents were George Delaware Mason (1851-1927) and Sarah A. Nelson (1856-1900), also of Hunting Quarter, Carteret County, North Carolina.

His great grandparents were James “Jim” Hill Mason (1822-1908) and Malinda Greene Salter (1832-1908). Jim Hill Mason was born in North Nelson Bay, Carteret County, to 1802 Caleb Mason and 1804 Louisa Lewis. 

Andrew’s Newton grandparents were Portsmouth-born Jessie Jarvis Newton (1851-1936) and Varita Ann Robinson (1847-1929). Jesse was a member of the crew at the Portsmouth Island Lifesaving Station circa 1910.

Jim Hill Mason

Jesse Jarvis Newton

Andrew’s great grandparents were James Nichols Newton (1827-1905) and Judith Simpson of Portsmouth and South River.

At the time of the 1910 and 1920 censuses, Andrew, his parents and siblings were in Hunting Quarter.

The 1930 Swansboro census recorded Andrew Mason 29; his occupation was noted as, “Coast Guard – U.S. Service.” In the rented house on Elm Street were his wife Louise 24 and 8-mo.-old daughter Margaret L. Mason.

James S. Newton

Andrew Mason died on December 8, 1982 at N.C. Memorial Hospital
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Andrew Mason 1902-1982

Family images are from the Mason Family Tree on Ancestry.com posted by Novem M. Mason.