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From: L K and T W W <>
Subject: [OHBUTLER-L] Matthews in OH>IA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:51:59 -0800


Hello,

Don't know if anyone is looking for these particular Matthews, but I
noticed the parents from OH. Since I did not know where in OH, I
decided to post it here and let you forward to anyone you might know
looking for them. This is from a Rootsweb archive search in IA.

Linda Wright

Matthews

Matthews, Homer A. (p. 18)

Homer A. Matthews was born in Louisa County on the 6 April 1844, the
son of Solomon B. and Emily (Bras) Matthews, natives of Ohio. The
father was a miller who died in July 1852. The mother died in October
1882.
Homer had one brother H.N.

Homer served in the Civil War. On 13 ASugust 1875, he married Caroline
Kimble, a native of Catlin, N.Y., a daughter of Nathaniel and Mry (Bush)
Kimble,
also natives of N.Y. They migrated to Boone Co., Illinois in 1851 and in

1874 moved to Louisa Co. where the mother died 16 August 1874 and the
father
on the 9 September 1875. There were three children: PIney, m. J.W.
Willard
and lived in Crook, Colorado; Caroline who married Mr. Matthews; and
Ansel
W.

Mr. and Mrs. Matthews had six childen: Frank H. b. 22 September 1876;
Ella, b. 12 August 1878 m. M. Sillick; Lena E. b. 3 September 1880;
Edgar
A. b. 1 July 1882; Emily M. b. 20 February 1884; and Hiram Leroy b. 1
October
1886.

Matthews, H.N. (p. 505)

Mr. Matthews is a brother of Homer, above and like his brother also
served in the Civil War. On the 8 February 1870, he married Mary E.
Brown,
daughter of John and Anna (Danielsl) Brown, both natives of Ohio. Mary
Brown's siblings were: Benjamin; Elizabeth m. Henry Speck of Vici,
Oklahoma;
Peter, lived in Alaska; Samuel; Nancy m. James P. Courtny; David;
Emmett;
and three who died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Matthews had four children; Emily A.,died in infancy;
SOlomon; Charles F. and Fannie,m. J.A. WIlliams of Oakville, IA.

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