Published as it appeared on June 6, 1874, in the Weekly Corvallis Gazette, Page 2, Column 6.
The remains of Mr. Simeon Mason, late of Junction City, but formerly of this county, were conveyed through this place, last Thursday afternoon, for interment at Philomath. We were unable to learn the particulars of his death.
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Editor’s note: Mr. Mason was born in 1827 in Montgomery County, Ohio, to Solomon Mason and Elizabeth Fryer. He married Julia A. Mason on Oct. 21, 1851, in McLean County, Illinois. The 1850 census shows Mr. Mason at age 23 in Randolph Grove, Illinois, working as a farmer and in the household of his parents. The 1860 census places him and his wife Julia with two children in Pierce County, Washington. Not long after, Mr. Mason appears to have moved to Oregon with his enlistment in the military in 1864 at Corvallis. He served as a private in Oregon Infantry’s 1st Regiment during the Civil War. According to the 1870 census, Mr. Mason lived in Corvallis with his wife, Julia, and their 13-year-old son Byron, and worked as a farmer. He died June 3, 1874 in Junction City.