WATAUGA COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Charlotte Helen Mast, 4 Mar 1920
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Myrtle Point, The Southern Coos County American
Thursday March 11, 1920

Charlotte Helen Mast

Charlotte Helen MAST, was born in Watauga County, North
Carolina, April 10th, 1838 and departed this life March 4th,
1920, being 81 years, 10 months and 25 days of age.  She was
united in matrimony with William P. Mast March 5th 1857.  To
this union were born five sons viz., Rueben H., Wm. L.,
James W., Webb and Hardee W., and living within the county
and present at the last sad act in the drama of life.  There
are 9 grand children and one great grandchild surviving her,
as well as her only brother E.P. Mast of McKinley and her
only sister, Mrs. Hester H. Hermann, of Lee.

Early in 1859 in company with her husband and his father and
all his father's family she removed from the place of her
birth to Texas, her first child being a babe in arms.  Not
being satisfied on account of health, they returned to the
land of her nativity in the early month of 1861 and
purchased a farm whereon they settled.

Being dissatisfied with the slow recovery of the country
from the devastation of the Civil War and having heard of
the fame of the country 'Where rolls the Oregon', they
disposed of their possessions and together with her father
and all his family, beside a number of other families, in
the month of April, 1872, turned their faces westward and in
June arrived in Douglas County Oregon, where they
engaged in farming for a year, in the mean time they
purchased a 'squatter's right' on 160 acres of land at Coos
Co., Ore. which was covered with and surrounded by an
unbroken wilderness.

On this foundation for a home they settled in the latter
part of October, 1873 and from that
wilderness proceeded to build what is now one of the
choicest farms in Coos County,  in which task she did her
full share.

She had been a member of the Eastern Star for more than
fifty years and the members of her lodge
exemplified the beautiful ceremonies of that Order over her
remains.

In the years of her activity the 'Latch string hung on the
outside' and her home was the scene of many gatherings of
young and old of the countryside.  The deserving needy never
applied to her in vain for assistance.

Tenderly and with full hearts she was laid to rest in the
family cemetery on the brow of the hill over-looking the
house she so effectively helped to build by the side of her
husband who was all in all to her in life, and who preceeded
her to the other world Dec 10, 1889.

The services were largely attended and the bereaved family
have the deepest sympathy of the entire community, The
American included.