Honorable W. A. Parker of North Carolina, eminent Alderman family
historian, writes that john Mathis first wife was Phoebe Alderman, born
April 11th, 1783 daughter of David Alderman, Republican Soldier and that
there were eleven children by her as named on p. 177 of Pioneers of
Wiregrass Georgia Volume 1, beginning with David and Through Rebecca the
eleventh child. John Mathis was shown as Phoebe's husband in the Alderman
record (Vol. 1 Pg 5 of Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia). This is in
conflict with the historical collections of the late W. Henry Griffin,
Berrien County Historian who gives John Mathis's first wife as shown on
p. 177 of Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia Volume 1. Mr Griffin's writings
anent John Mathis were based largely on a conversation he had in 1919
with the last surviving child, Mrs. Susannah Cowart, age 85 years at that
time, and the D.A.R. has accepted that record as correct. Mr. Alderman is
supported in his statement by communications from three or four
grandchildren of John Mathis and his first wife, they stating that it had
always been their information in the family that their Mathis grandmother
was Phoebe Alderman before marriage. There seems to be no doubt that
Phoebe Alderman did marry John Mathis but the Compiler had assumed that,
that John Mathis lived and died in North Carolina. In the light of these
circumstances, we agree with Mr. Alderman as to the first wife being
Phoebe Alderman.

Mr. Mathis was a member of Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church as stated.
Uniting with it by letter August 17th, 1839. The church roll shows he
died a member August 20th, 1851. His second wife, Susannah "Susie"
Edmondson Mathis, was received into the same church, and baptized
September 18th, 1841; she died a member in 1863.

• Married: 3 OCT 1801 in Duplin County, North Carolina

1. David MATHIS b: 2 JUL 1802 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
2. James MATHIS b: ABT 1803 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
3. Rice MATHIS b: ABT 1804 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
4. Cornelius D. "Neil" MATHIS b: ABT 1806 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
5. Thomas MATHIS b: ABT 1808 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
6. Civility MATHIS b: 1808 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
7. Jemima MATHIS b: 16 FEB 1810 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
8. Miles MATHIS b: ABT 1811 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
9. Elizabeth MATHIS b: 1813 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
10. Riley L. MATHIS b: 15 MAY 1815 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia
11. Rebecca MATHIS b: 2 APR 1817 in Bulloch (fka Effingham) County, Georgia

• Married: 25 OCT 1820 in Bulloch County, Georgia

1. John Edmondson "C. S. A." MATHIS b: 30 AUG 1824 in Lowndes (nka Cook) County, Georgia