Lewis M. MATTHEWS

Abt 1809 - 1863  (~ 54 years)

• Name	Lewis M. MATTHEWS
  Birth	Abt 1809	Newton County, Georgia
  Gender	Male
  _UID	F80FBCCD3A1B4535B16B52C9046C5D9D007B
  Death	28 Aug 1863	Civil War
  Person ID	I5843	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Jeremiah MATTHEWS,   b. 22 Dec 1756, Virginia d. 5 Aug 1842, Newton County, Georgia (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Sarah JOHNSON,   b. Abt 1766, Johnston County, North Carolina d. 16 Dec 1850, Fulton County, Georgia (Age ~ 84 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1782	Johnston County, North Carolina
  Family ID	F2962	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Marriage	7 Feb 1827	Madison County, Georgia
  Family ID	F2960	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Marriage	12 Jul 1853	Paulding County, Georgia
  	Marriage listed in the book Paulding County Its People & Places page 385.
  Family ID	F2961	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Georgia Paulding County 1850(Page 114B) census does not list a wife for Lewis. Youngest child is 2 years old, Mary Ann could have died when Zachary was born( She had 10 children in 20 years). Also listed is James Mosley age 12 who we beleive is Mary Ann's brother. Granted land in the 1838 Cherokee Land Lottery: 20th District, 2nd section, Cherokee, Newton County Moved to Craighead, Arkansas after 1856. Is listed with new wife, Milley and children on 1860 Craighead, Arkansas census page 894. Also listed are the three children of Milley's by her first marriage, Elizabeth(1843), John(1844), Josephine(1845), & Martha(1850) Tolbert. From the Craighead Co History by Williams: L.M. Matthews was an agricultruist or Farmer and came to what is now Craighead County in the winter of 1857 and located about one-half mile from the present site of Jonesboro where he had a field planted in cotton where the town was laid out two years later. Some years later he moved to Poinsett County, Arkansas and is said to have died during the Civil War.