William Pinckney Mason [SEP] date of death
William Pinckney Mason
William Pinckney Mason (10 January 1843 – 16 December 1922) was a Lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy, ultimately serving as commander of several ironclad gunboats. Mason was a great-grandson of George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, and his wife Ann Eilbeck.
Early life and education.
Mason was born on 10 January 1843, in Alexandria and was the youngest child of a large family born to Dr. Richard Chichester Mason and his wife Lucy Bolling Randolph.
American Civil
June 1923)
- William Pinckney Mason (10 January 1843–16 December 1923)
Upon the death of his grandfather George Mason on 7 October 1792, Mason's father Thomson inherited a portion of the Gunston Hall estate. Around 1817, Mason's father Thomson divided the property into two plantations: Dogue Run farm for Mason and Hunting Creek farm for Mason's brother Thomson Francis Mason (1785–1838). Mason and his family began living on his Dogue Creek plantation in the mansion he built, Okeley Manor, sometime before 1834.