Fourth Generation
271. Gertrude
Martha WESTLAKE was born about 1849 in New Haven, Fayette, Virginia.
She died on 27 Dec 1899 in Leadville, Lake, Colorado. !BURIAL: Evergreen
Cem., Leadville, Colorado Gertrude Martha WESTLAKE and John Ligon MASTERSON
were married on 30 Mar 1866 in Princeton, Bureau, Illinois. They
were divorced. John Ligon MASTERSON (son
of Samuel Arminius MASTERSON Doctor and Elizabeth "Betsy" VANDAL) was born about
Oct 1842 in Mt. Cove, Fayette, Virginia. He died on 24 Mar 1910 in
Los Angeles, , California. He was buried in Los Angeles, , California.
!From the Vandal Newsletter of April, 1990.
John Ligon was born in 1842 in Fayette County, Virginia. He married Gertrude
Westlake and the couple had two sons, Thomas Vandal Masterson and Harry Lester
Masterson, both born in Iowa before the family settled in Smith County,
Kansas, in 1872.
John divorced Gertrude in 1875 for desertion, and Thomas stayed with his
father. Harry went with his mother to Missouri, where her parents had settled.
Both John and Gertrude remarried and had children by their second spouses.
John and his second wife, Mary Lou Ella Dean, with their older children and
"Louella's" parents, sold their farm property in Smith County and resettled
in
Douglas County, Kansas, near the town of Lecompton, where they farmed until
1901. John developed life-threatening asthma, and Luella took him to Los
Angeles, California, where the improvement in climate permitted him to live
another nine years until 1910 when he passed away.
!BURIAL: Evergreen Cem., Los Angeles, California Gertrude Martha WESTLAKE and
John Ligon MASTERSON had the following children:
Gertrude Martha WESTLAKE and James TALLMADGE
were married. Gertrude Martha WESTLAKE and
James TALLMADGE had the following children:
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