Mason Cemetery
  MASON CEMETERY
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The Mason Cemetery is located in a field/pasture in Goldsberry, Macon County, Missouri (northwest of Ethel, Macon County, Missouri).  This location used to be the back portion of the property of Charles Henry and Lucinda C. Robinson Mason.  The
cemetery is located just north and west of the location of the old Fairview School house.  It is located about 1200 feet to the west, off of the main road, Missouri State Highway, 149.  There used to be a road to the cemetery, but it is no longer there.  It is at the top of a small hill, where several cedar trees have been planted, that are visible from the road.  When Sharon Prince first recorded the inscriptions in this cemetery, in the summer of 1976, there was a fence around most of it (about 50 feet square).  It has been trampled by cattle and many of the stones have been destroyed or buried since then.  Some of the stones have been found being used as doorsteps in neighboring farms (as early as 1930).
Sharon Lee Geck Prince is the gggrandaughter of Charles Henry and Lucinda C. Robinson Mason (they are buried in the above-ground vault, located at the Helton Cemetery behind the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Ethel).  To the extent possible, all inscriptions are shown verbatim:

COOMBES:
Children of  S.L. and S.J. Coombes (inscribed on small stone):
Leota - born July 5, 1884; died Dec. 25, 1887   "Not lost, but gone before"
Infant - born and died Feb. 11, 1887   "Our loved one"
Aaron - born Aug. 6, 1892; died Oct. 12, 1896   "Gone to be an angel"
footstone inscribed:  A.C. (probably Aaron Coombes)

Ruth Combes Dec. 25, 1898 - July 13, 1918; same headstone:
Lorretta, her dau. 1917
(only one date shown).  [note:  Combes is spelled as shown here;
with a double "o" in the above graves].

MASON
Lena, Dau. of C.H. & L.C. Mason; born Jan. 1, 1881; died Nov. 20,
1883.
(This headstone is the largest existing stone in the cemetery; a cedar tree was planted near the headstone, which has protected it from the elements and cattle.  A fence surrounded this grave in 1976).

Children of R.A. and S. E. Mason (inscribed on small stone):
Earnie - born Oct. 4, 1895; died Aug.4, 1896  "Be at Peace"
Dennie - born Oct. 13, 1891; died Nov. 26, 1893  "Our darling one"
Nora - born Mar. 8, 1886; died July 12, 1887   "Gone, but not forgotten"
Snoda - born Sept. 8, 1889; died Nov. 18, 1891  "Budded on earth to bloom in heaven"
footstones were found with the initials:  E.M.; S.M.; and M.M.
(could be N.M.).

Several other stones were toppled, buried and not legible.