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(Born about 1829 near Ramer, Montgomery County, Alabama; Died after 1866 and before 1880, probably in Alabama) Rufus Amason married 23 JUL 1853 in Montgomery County, Alabama to Mary Ann Sullivan (Born in NOV 1829 in Alabama; Died about 1910 in Shelby County, Texas). By 1854, Rufus and Mary Ann Amason were living in Monroe County, Alabama, where their son, William Franklin Amason was born. The family is not listed in Monroe County, Alabama or elsewhere in the U. S. census enumeration of 1860. An 1866 census of Monroe County, Alabama listed R. Amason as head of household. In November of 1866, Rufus and Mary Ann Amason sold their property in Monroe County, Alabama. Rufus may have died before 1870. In the 1870 U.S. Census of Shelby County, Texas lWilliam Franklin "Frank" Amorson, age 15, born in Mississippi, was a farm laborer in the household of John Jackson Pounds and wife, Mary Elizabeth Amason (UriahI, UriahII, JesseIII). Frank Amorson and Mary Elizabeth (Amason) Pounds(UriahI, UriahII, RufusIII) were first cousins. In the 1880 U. S. census, M. A. Amason, a widow, age 50, born in Alabama and son, W. F. Amason, age 24, born in Alabama were listed in Shelby County, Texas. That census listing was for Mary Ann (Sullivan) Amason and son, William Franklin Amason (UriahI, UriahII, RufusIII). In the adjacent household was A. A. Amason, a widow, age 65, born in Georgia and other family members. That census listing was for Ary Ann Amason, who was the wife of Elisha Amason (UriahI, UriahII), who died before 1866.