Accotink in which one member from each force died. In the 1870 census for Fairfax County, Mt. Vernon district, Ebon and Elizabeth lived with their 8-year-old daughter Nellie (who had been born in Maryland), as well as elderly domestic servant Betsie Dove (white, aged 63) and farmhand Henny Gaskings (black aged 19), both of whom were Virginia born. Their real estate was worth $4000, and they owned $1000 of other property. His parents continued to live and farm at Woodlawn, and by 1880 John's 85-year-old sister Sarah had joined them from New Hampshire. In the 1880 census, Betty Dove (aged 72) continued to live with Ebon and Elizabeth Mason as a household servant, but Nellie vanished (married or dead). Instead, the Masons supported their nephews William H. Mason (b. 1868) and Joseph Mason (b. 1870) on the farm. Between those dates, Otis Mason gave land across from the Woodlawn Friends Meeting to establish Woodlawn Baptist Church in 1872. He preached there (although unordained) until the congregation called Rev. Sam Chapman, the "fighting parson" of Col. Mosby's Confederate Cavalry to its pulpit. Chapman served for two years before moving on; the congregation razed that building in 1992 to build a larger church, and recently merged with another congregation and changed its name. Death and legacy Ebon Mason died on June 18, 1910, survived by Elizabeth, who was buried at the Woodlawn Baptist Church cemetery three years later. The Special Collections Division of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia makes his wartime diary 1864–1865 available online. Eventually, Fort Belvoir expanded to encompass much of the area, and in 1992 the Woodlawn Baptist Church razed its 1872 building to build a larger one (and was merged into the Pillar Church in 2014). However, Woodlawn Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and as a National Historic Landmark in 1998, and is maintained as a museum by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Expansion of Fort Belvoir and Route 1 in the area while preserving those historic sites is a current controversy. References People from Eastport, Maine People from Fort Belvoir, Virginia 1829 births 1910 deaths Southern Unionists in the American Civil War People of Virginia in the American Civil War Virginia Republicans