Anna Barbara Mason ^{3 4}

  General Notes:

ANNA BARBARA MASON FAST SUES SON OVER WILL:
"Anna Barbara Mason Fast, widow of Christian Fast, had to sue her son, David Fast, for her fair support from Christian's estate. David, immediately after the death of his father, took possession of all goods, chattels and personal property of his parents. He refused to give his mother the support to which she was entitled. David sold all the earthly possessions of the family and refused his mother any of the proceeds. By the will of Christian Fast, David could not dispose of the estate until the death of Anna Barbara Fast. But contrary to this, David sold the property and appropriated all the proceeds for his own use. He even tried to lay claim to $100 that belonged to his mother free and clear."
-- By Jenny Branscom - 18 Jan 1999.
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State of Ohio, Richland (Ashland) County Court Testimony, 6 Nov 1843

On the sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the Court of Commons Pleas of the County of Richland, Aforesaid Anna Barbara Fast, a resident of Orange Township in the County of Richland and State of Ohio, aforesaid aged seventy six years the 9th day of September A.D. 1843 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an Act Granting Half-pay And Pensions To certain Widows. That she is the widow of Christian Fast who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and a Prisoner during at eighty dollars per annum during his natural life commencing the 4th of March 1831 and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year and whose certificate of pension appears therefore to be recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol. 8 and page 111.

She further declares that she was married to the said Christian Fast on the first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, that her husband the aforesaid Christian Fast died on the twenty fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one, that she was not married to him during prior to his having the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated .
Attest: Elyah W. Lake
AK Anne Barbara (her X mark) Fast

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the said Court of Common Pleas in Open Court.
E. W. Lake, clerk

I, Elyah W. Lake, Clerk of the Court of Common Please within and for the County of Richland do hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the entry made on the journal of said Court as the November ten thereof AD 1843 given under my signature and the seal of said Court at Mansfield this 9th day of November AD 1843.
E. W. Lake, clerk
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Martin Fast, Son of Christian Fast, was bourn the 12th day of June 1784.
Nicholas Fast Bourn the 11th day of June 1786.
Jacob Fast was Bourn the 13th day of March 1788.
Ann Catrine Margaret was Bourn the 27th of July 1792.
William Fast was Bourn the 24th day of March 1794.
Christian Fast was Bourn the 6th day of October 1795.
David Fast was Bourn the first of August 1797.
Francis Fast was Bourn the 19th day of June 1799.
Barbara Fast was bourn the 12th day of February 1801.
Elizabeth Fast was bourn the 29th day of August 1804.
George Fast was bourn the 4th day of June 1807.
John Fast was bourn the 10th day of July 1809.
Christeany Fast was Bourn the 13th day of May 1811.
Christian Fast was bourn the 15th of January 1790 and died the 1st of September 1792.
Nancy Fast was bourn the 7th day of November 1802 and died the 19th day of September 1804.
Christian Fast, Son of Nicholas Fast, Was Bourn the 22nd day of June 1762 and was Married to Barbara Mason the 1st day of August 1783.
Barbara Mason was Bourn the 9th day of September In the year of our Lord 1767.


The Said Barbara Fast above Mentioned
Jeremiah, son of Ann C. Margaret Fast, Was bourn the 18th day of December 1807.
John Fast, Son of Christian Fast Junior Was Born the 16th Day of October, 1814.
Martin Fast was Born the 17th Day of February, 1816.
David Fast was borne the 22nd day of September in the year of our Lord 1818.
Isaac Fast was borne the 19th day of March in the year of our Lord 1820.
Levina Fast was born April the 22nd in the year of our Lord 1822.
George Fast was born March the 18th, 1824.
Clemmer Fast was bourn the 24th day of March 1826.
Christian Fast was borne October the 12th 1828.
An. Elizabeth Fast was born June the 24th, 1830.

State of Ohio
Richland County ss.
Personally appeared before the subscriber an acting justice of the peace within and for said County Jacob Fast and after having been by me duly sworn according to law depose and say that he is the Son of Christian Fast and Anne Barbara Fast and that the family Record hereto attached is the family Record of the said Christian Fast and Anne Barbara Fast that between thirty and forty years ago the said Record was transcribed all except the last entry by one William Ayer at the request of the said Christian and Anna Barbara Fast from an old Psalm book that the said Record hereto attach ed as aforesaid from the time of transcribing as aforesaid the said Christian up to his death which took place June twenty fifth AD 1841 kept and regarded as a correct family record and that since the death of the said Christian Fast the said record hereto attached as aforesaid has been kept by the said widow of the said Christian until I received it of her about eighteen months since and gave it into the hands of her attorneys Messrs Bortty and Stevens and this aforesaid Record hereto attached is a true family Record of the said Christian Fast and Anna Barbara Fast. For the name of my mother, Anna Barbara Fast, appears to have been written Barbara without the Anna and so kept on the said Record but her name is and always has been Anne Barbara as I am informed by her and believe.
Jacob Fast

And has personally appeared George Fast and after having been first duly sworn according to law deposes and says that the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit of Jacob Fast are correct and George Fast.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of November AD 1843
_________P. Carson, J.P.
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Court Testimony, Ashland County, Ohio, 21 Apr 1855

The State of Ohio
Ashland County ss.
On this 21st day of April 1855 personally appeared before me, Samuel Smith, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, George Fast, Guardian of Barbara Ann Fast, who being duly sworn according to law says that the said Barbara Ann Fast is the widow of the identical Christian Fast who was a private in the Revolutionary War and the identical Barbara Fast who holds a Certificate for Pension given at the War Office of the United States on the 3rd day of March 1849. That said Certificate s is recorded in the Pension Office on the roll of Pensioners under Act February ___, 1848, Page 341, Vol 4. That the said Barbara Fast is aged eighty-nine years and that the said Christian Fast continued in active service in said war for the term of over fourteen days and that the said Barbara is a resident of the County and State aforesaid and that she is now the widow of Christian Fast, and has never married since his death. The said George Fast, Guardian as aforesaid, makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining Bounty Land Granted by the Act passed March 3rd 1843, and he hereby declares the said Barbara Fast has not applied for or received Bounty Land except as above stated and the said George Fast hereby appoints Chas. C. Larchers of the City of Washington, DC his atty. to Prosecute this claim of said Barbara Fast and receive her warrant when issued.
George Fast, Guardian of Barbara Fast

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that I have no interest in the above and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Samuel Smith, Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Ashland County ss.
Personally came Alexander Parker and Wells Kellogg, residents of the Town and County of Ashland, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn say that they were present and saw George Fast sign his name to the foregoing declaration as Guardian for Barbara Fast and that they know him to be such Guardian and that they know Barbara Fast to be the identical person he represents her to be and they also swear that they are disinterested witnesses.
Alexander Parker
Wells Kellogg

Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of April 1855 and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in the claim .
Samuel Smith, Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Ashland County ss.
I, I. O. Jennings, Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Samuel Smith, whose genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record has ....(missing rest of text).
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She has alternate birth date of 9 September 1767 and a birth location of , Hampshire County, VA.

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• She was buried after 18 August 1855 in the Fast Cemetery in Bailey Lakes, OH.

Within the consolidated grave site area now called the "Fast Cemetery", Christian and his wife, Anna, share one of the new replacement gravestones of a rose colored granite in the form of a vaulted obelisk. The inscription on her side reads "Anna Barbara Fast, Born Sept. 9, 1768, Died Aug. 18, 1855, Aged 86y 11m & 9d".

Find A Grave Memorial# 22508599

The consolidated Fast Cemetery has been the subject of many researchers statements with some expressing what had been found decades ago. In 2002, I talked with the land owner/farmer who currently owns the land surrounding the cemetery. He knows that for many years the annual plowing of the fields would occasionally bring up fragments of gravestones and that he and the preceding land owners would consolidate the fragments in one centralized pile.

When the first Fast family members were buried here, Ashland County did not exist until 1846 and the land was actually part of Richland County. Apparently over the years and with the change in county designations, the records of burials at this location had long since been lost or destroyed so to this day, nobody knows for sure how many people had been buried there nor their exact locations. What you see today is a compromise worked out with the farmer/landowners and the relatives of the Fast family, namely a consolidated memorial cemetery that is less than 20 feet wide and fenced in with a very neat looking white wooden fence. The farmer easily grants permission to anyone wanting to visit the cemetery but there is no vehicular traffic for the last several hundred feet and one is literally walking through a farmer's field to get to the cemetery.

The drive to the cemetery is marked with a sign "Fulk Drive," half-way to the farm buildings. The drive bears to the left and ends at the cemetery. Located nearby the cemetery is Spring Lake, which is the headwaters of the Vermillion River which flows into Lake Erie.
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Anna married Christian Fast, son of Johann Nicklaus Fast and Cadarina Margaretha Dörner, on 1 August 1783 in Dunkard Township, Washington, PA.^{1 2 3} (Christian Fast was born on 22 June 1762 in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, British Colonial America,³ died on 23 June 1841 in Orange Township, Richland, OH ^{3 5} and was buried after 23 June 1841 in Fast Cemetery, Bailey Lakes, Richland, OH ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

The marriage location is given by some researchers as Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania on 1 Aug 1783. Greene County was not actually formed until 1796. Prior to that, it was part of Washington county.
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