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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Calvin Wilson MATEER: Birth: 9 JAN 1836 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Death: 28 SEP 1908 in Tsingtao, China

  2. Jane Jenny MATEER: Birth: 7 NOV 1837 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Death: 6 SEP 1926 in Columbus, Ohio

  3. William Diven MATEER: Birth: 5 JAN 1843 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Death: 10 FEB 1914 in Santa Ana, Orange County, California

  4. John Lowrie MATEER: Birth: 16 APR 1848 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Death: 23 APR 1900 in Peking, China

  5. Robert McCheyne MATEER: Birth: 8 FEB 1853 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Death: 5 SEP 1921 in Wei Hsien, China

  6. Horace Nelson MATEER: Birth: 12 DEC 1855 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Death: 10 JUN 1939 in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio

  7. Lilian Ellen Lillie MATEER: Birth: 19 MAY 1858 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Death: 25 NOV 1897 in Monroe, Walton County, Georgia


Notes
a. Note:   N446 John and Mary (Diven) Mateer first went to housekeeping on a farm described as the Clovermill property, located near Shiremanstown, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Their son, John Lowrie Mateer takes up the story there: 'In the spring of 1840 they sold the Clovermill property for $3000.00. They rented a house in Dillsburg and lived there one year. During this year father bought a farm in Adams County, two miles from Petersburg towards Gettysburg. They moved onto this farm in the spring of 1841.....Continuing with John L. Mateer's account, this Adams County farm 'contained 120 acres with a good brick house and barn. Father paid $3000.00 for it. They lived there until 1857 when they sold the farm for $6000.00 cash. Father went at once to Mercer County, Pennsylvania and bought from Samuel Park (mother's cousin) for $6000.00 cash. This farm contains 209 acres and is located one mile west of Pine Grove, now 'Grove City'. The family went out in the spring of 1857 on the Pennsylvania Railway to Pittsburg, thence by stage. Father and brother Will drove three hourses to a wagon loaded with household goods over the mountain. In spring 1865 they sold this farm for $15,000.00 and removed to Henry, Illinois. In the summer of 1872 John Mateer moved again to Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois; so that his younger children might have greater educational opportunities at the college there.


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