This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JARVIS MASON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lNB.2ACI/3948.2 Message Board Post: I'm also searching this line and would like to correspond with anyone else wanting to share info. A travelin' man...Corneilus Jarvis was born in 1794 in Hyde County, North Carolina. There is evidence that the Jarvis, Mason and Harris families constituted an amicable group of traveling companions. Cornelius Jarvis, Levi Jarvis, Robert Mason, Joshua Mason, and A J Harris had all relocated their families from the Hyde County, North Carolina region to White County, Tennessee between 1819 and 1820. Apparently a widow by this time, Delacy Jarvis made the westward move to White County in 1847. The trip west was probably a physically demanding trial, or she might have been in poor health and wanted to relocate to reunited with some of her wandering family. While we may not learn all the background information, the fact remains that she died the same year. A J Harris kept his family intact in White County, as did Levi Jarvis. The rambling fever had not yet waned for some, and the next step of the journey from Tennessee to Washington County, Missouri was embarked upon by the families of: Cornelius Jarvis (1842) and Robert Mason (1850). Cornelius was listed as a miner in the 1850 Washington County, Missouri census and a farmer in the 1880 census where his age was given as 84. Apparently, being a politician ran deep in his blood. In the 1858 marriage record of Mathew Dotson and Margaret Laramore, he is documented as marrying the couple with the power vested in him as Justice of the Peace of Harmony Township (Washington County, Missouri). He is buried in Marler Chapel Cemetery on C Highway, but doesn't have a headstone in the cemetery. Most Jarvis and Mason families in the area of Belgrade, Missouri descend from him.