Marshal Foster DEMASTERS
1880 Census lists her parents birth place as North Carolina
Some census records list Mary Jane as being born in Utah and some list California as birth place. If the story of her father being gored by an oxen in Utah Territory when they were on their way to California is correct then it is possible that she was born in Utah Territory. Because the story says they stayed in the Utah Territory so that he could recuperate from his injuries and if her mother was already expecting her she could have been born before they got to California. Utah was recognized as a Territory in September 1850 and she was born in October 1850.
I found Phoebe Alice on the 1900 census in an apparent second marriage to Hugh A. Thornton. They had been married three years but there were three children in the family all older than three years of age. I found her in One World Tree married to James Thomas Parker who died in 1923. I am assuming that she was divorced when she married Thornton although the census doesn't indicate a divorce or a second marriage. The census also lists the three children as Thorntons when usually they would be listed as step children under their birth names.
He married Permelia Ann Talent 5 Mar 1843 at Carroll, Missouri . Permelia Ann Talent was born at Carroll, Kentucky, Usa 19 Mar 1826 .
They were the parents of 14
children:
Jasper Newton DeMasters
born 22 Jan 1843.
America Ann DeMasters
born 18 Feb 1846.
James P. DeMasters
born 29 Jul 1848.
John Sterling DeMasters
born 29 Jul 1848.
Mary Jane DeMasters
born 14 Oct 1850.
Stephen Davenport DeMasters
born 5 Nov 1852.
David Ward DeMasters
born 18 Oct 1854.
Theodore DeMasters
born 6 Apr 1856.
Nancy Angeline DeMasters
born 27 Dec 1858.
Ellen DeMasters
born 26 May 1860.
William F. DeMasters
born 16 Aug 1862.
Edward Lockley DeMasters
born 18 May 1864.
Phoebe Alice DeMasters
born 22 Dec 1865.
Aaron DeMasters
born 9 Jan 1868.
Marshal Foster DeMasters died 21 Jul 1867 at Visalia, Tulare, California, Usa .
Permelia Ann Talent died 5 Nov 1890 at Fresno, Fresno, California, Usa .