This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/2095 Message Board Post: Does anyone know of a person named Mason who ran a school for young ladies in Holly Springs c.1848? This is the only clue I have found regarding my 2nd great-grandmother's schooling. Her parents died in 1847 in Panola Co, and she moved to Lafayette Co to live with her guardian at some point. Her name was Sarah Jane D Harris and she married Thomas B Allen in Lafayette Co in 1853.