Born: Union County, Kentucky, January 10, 1845.
Died: Forest City, Arkansas, December 25, 1934.
JACOB C. MASON was born in Union county, Ky., January 10th, 1845. He was educated at Princeton, Ky. He married Miss Lizzie J. Kelly at Hillsboro, Illinois, in 1865, and two years later moved to Arkansas. He was bereaved of his good wife about two years ago, but he has left to comfort him his venerable and pious mother and his dutiful Christian daughter. He was baptized at Irving, Ill., in 1863, during a meeting held by Brother B. B. Tyler; but, there being no congregation of disciples at Irving, he never held membership anywhere till he established a church in White county, Arkansas. His father moved to that county in 1868, and a Bible class was soon started in his house, with Jacob as teacher. The result was the evolution of a church and three preachers, one of whom is the subject of this sketch.
After preaching in White and adjoining counties for several years, he moved to Okolona, where he resided five years. He labored for the Okolona and Prescott congregations for awhile, then served as State evangelist for three years. While acting in that capacity, he planted a church at Texarkana, for which he has preached over five years. He is a wonderful worker. He began at Texarkana with a few members, and no house of worship, and now has a church of 200 members and a comfortable chapel lighted by electricity. Bro. Mason's address is Texarkana, Ark., where he has a comfortable home, though his church-house is on the Texas side of the line, which admits him into the "TEXAS PULPIT."