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Subject: Mason.Joseph.1937.Breckinridge-Hancock.OBIT


Joseph Gideon Mason July 2, 1937
Breckinridge-Hancock County KyArchives Obituaries

Breckinridge News, Published in Cloverport, Ky; issue dated, Wednesday, July 7, 1937 
PICKING CHERRIES PROVED FATAL JOSEPH GIDEON MASON DIED OF INJURIES
 
     Mr. and Mrs. William Mason of Mattingly and Mrs. Shelby D. Pate of this city went 
to Mattoon, Illinois the latter part of last week on account of the death of Mr. Mason's 
brother, Joseph Gideon Mason.  Death was due to a fall from a large cherry tree in which 
Mr. Mason was picking cherries.
     Mr. Mason was found lying face downward about 12:20 noon, Thursday under the tree 
where he had been picking the cherries.  He had sustained a broken neck, and broken limbs 
through the tree indicated the path which his body took when he in some way fell, after 
a large limb had broken.  It is believed he had been dead less than an hour when neighbors 
found the lifeless body under the tree.
     Mr. Mason was a native of Breckinridge County, and was born September 7, 1867, and 
resided in Kentucky until 1898 when he obtained employment as a machinist in the Illinois 
Central Shops in Evansville, Indiana.  In 1905 he was transferred to Mattoon where he was 
with the Chase Engine Works until the plant ceased operations some years ago.  Mr. Mason 
is survived by:
His widow:
Mrs. Dicy Beatty Pate (should be Dicy Beatty Mason), who was formerly of Fordsville one daughter:
Miss Marion Mason of the home
one son:
Earl Mason of the home
two brothers:
Thomas Mason of Jacksonville, Florida
William Mason of Mattingly
Arrangements for the funeral had not been made when the relatives from this place left Friday.  
Mr. Mason was a member of the Christian Church and the Machinists Union.


Submitted by: Dana Brown and Peggy L. Russell %demail  grussell3@wi.rr.com



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