Third Generation

71. John Ligon MASTERSON was born about Oct 1843 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

John Ligon MASTERSON and Gertrude Martha WESTLAKE were married on 30 Mar 1866 in Princeton, Bureau, Illinois. They were divorced. Gertrude Martha WESTLAKE (daughter of Wellington B. WESTLAKE and Helen M. WATERS) was born about 1849 in New Haven, Fayette, Virginia. She died on 27 Dec 1899 in Leadville, Lake, Colorado. !BURIAL: Evergreen Cem., Leadville, Colorado John Ligon MASTERSON and Gertrude Martha WESTLAKE had the following children:

+326	i.	Thomas Vandal MASTERSON.
327	ii.	Harry Lester MASTERSON was born about 1869 in Tipton, Cedar, Iowa. He died on 19 Dec 1899 in Leadville, Lake, Colorado.

John Ligon MASTERSON and Mary Lou Ella DEAN were married about Jul 1877 in Whittier. Mary Lou Ella DEAN (daughter of William DEAN and Alvira SHERMAN) was born on 19 Jan 1856 in , , Wisconsin.⁵ She died on 19 Jan 1945 in Los Angeles, , California. !BURIAL: Forest Lawn Cem., Glendale, California John Ligon MASTERSON and Mary Lou Ella DEAN had the following children:

+328	i.	Jennie May MASTERSON.
+329	ii.	Alma R. MASTERSON.
+330	iii.	Olive Helen MASTERSON.
+331	iv.	James William MASTERSON Sr..
332	v.	Dean MASTERSON was born about Aug 1891 in Lecompton, Douglas, Kansas. He died on 1 Dec 1908 in Los Angeles, , California.