Full Name George Mason VI Name George VI Citizenship United States | Ethnicity European American Nationality American | |
Born August 11, 1786 ( 1786-08-11 ) Fairfax County, Virginia Died August 21, 1834(1834-08-21) (aged 48)
Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia Resting place Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia Residence Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia | ||
George Mason VI (August 11, 1786 - August 21, 1834) was a prominent Virginia planter. Mason was the eldest son of planter and businessman George Mason V and grandson of United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the United States Constitutional Convention, George Mason.
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Early life
Born on 11 August 1786 in Fairfax County, Virginia, Mason was the eldest son of George Mason V and his wife Elizabeth "Betsey" Mary Ann Barnes Hooe.
Estates
Mason inherited Gunston Hall and by 1825, he had also acquired the Fairfax family seat of Mount Eagle.
Marriages and children
George married his cousin Elizabeth Thomson Mason, daughter of Thomson Mason and Sarah McCarty Chichester, on 17 February 1813. George and Elizabeth had six children:
Elizabeth died on 2 September 1821. Two years later on 2 January 1823, George married for a second time to Eleanor Ann Clifton Patton, daughter of Robert Patton, Jr. and Ann Clifton Reeder, in Washington, D.C. George and Eleanor had one son:
Later life
George died on 21 August 1834 at Gunston Hall at the age of 48. Both George and his second wife Eleanor are buried in the Mason family graveyard at Gunston Hall.
His widow Eleanor was the last member of the Mason family to inhabit Gunston Hall. She was later the subject of a lawsuit brought against her by George Mason of Hollin Hall which resulted in the Gunston Hall tract being sold at public auction to her son, from her second husband Colonel George Graham (d. 1830), George Mason Graham on 9 February 1842. Eleanor was given the right to live there for her lifetime. She and Graham sold the property in 1866.
Relations
George Mason VI was a grandson of George Mason (1725–1792); son of George Mason V (1753–1796); brother of Richard Barnes Mason (1797–1850); grandnephew of Thomson Mason (1733–1785); first cousin once removed of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760–1803), John Thomson Mason (1765–1824), and William Temple Thomson Mason (1782–1862); first cousin of Thomson Francis Mason (1785–1838) and James Murray Mason (1798–1871); second cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason (1787–1819), John Thomson Mason (1787–1850), and John Thomson Mason, Jr. (1815–1873); and second cousin once removed of Stevens T. Mason (1811–1843).