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Obituary
for Isaac
Green Mask
Transcribed version:
Death of Isaac G. Mask - This venerable citizen of Baltimore died at
the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Snyder, in Shepherdstown, West Va.,
on the 24th day of December, (last Monday,) in the 77th year of his
age, from paralysis of the stomach, not being able for thrity-three
days before his day to partake of any nourishment. The
deceased once resided at Moorefield, Hardy county, Va., and was for
many years an occasional correspondent of the Sun from that place.
In this city he was for a number of years with Chas. B.
Keyworth, merchant tailor, and at the breaking out of the civil war was
employed in the city tax department. He was sent to Fort
Lafayette by Gen. Dix, and was for some time a political prisoner.
He was a man of amiable and affectionate traits, greatly
endeared to his friends and family, exceedingly fond of hunting and
fishing, and well-posted in all such sports. He was a
valuable contributor to sporting, papers, and wrote with much grace and
force. One of the exploits of his early life was when a boy
he cut his name on the trunk of a tree on "Stony run," which he could
read there sixty years afterwards. He was the youngest
brother of the late Wm. Marshall Mask, an extensive builder in this
city in the first quarter of the present century. His father
and mother came to Baltimore in early life from Lancaster, Pa.
Mr. Mask was buried, according to his wish, on Christmas day,
the anniversary of his marriage. His aged wife survives him.
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