Name: Mathews_20200704

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Person Info

Name: Rufus Mathews ^{1 2}
Sex: M
Birth: 21 JAN 1813 in Kentucky ^{3 4 5 6 7}
Death: 13 DEC 1900 in Gainesville City, Cooke Co., Texas ⁸
Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, TX. ⁷
Military: SEP 1837 in Sargeant, Missouri 1st Regiment, Florida War. ¹⁵
Person Id: I0280
Tree Id: 618394

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Parents

Father:

Jacob Mathews: Birth: 16 DEC 1773 in Frederick Co., Maryland. Death: 22 JUL 1843 in Fabius Twnshp., Marion Co., Missouri

Mother:

Catherine Calvert: Birth: 25 MAR 1781 in Culpepper, VA. Death: 20 OCT 1852 in Fabius Twnshp., Marion Co., Missouri

Family
Marriage:

Married: Eliza Jane Jones on 14 MAR 1839 at Marion Co., MO.¹⁶
Eliza Jane Jones: Death: BEF. 1845

Children:

Virginia Mathews: Birth: 17 MAR 1839 in Missouri. Death: BET. 12 JUN 1880 - 15 JUN 1900

Family
Marriage:

Married: Mary Elizabeth Berry on 23 DEC 1845 at Marion, Missouri.¹⁷
Mary Elizabeth Berry: Birth: 18 NOV 1825 in Woodford Co., Kentucky. Death: 12 FEB 1916 in Ripon, San Joaquin Co., California

Children:

John W. Mathews: Birth: 15 NOV 1846 in Marion Co, Missouri. Death: 12 DEC 1873 in Shelbina, Missouri
George Bain Mathews: Birth: 25 JAN 1849 in Palmyra, Marion Co., Missouri. Death: 31 DEC 1933 in Ripon, San Joaquin Co, California
Rufus Mathews: Birth: 18 FEB 1851 in Fabius Twnshp., Marion Co., Missouri. Death: 18 JUN 1907 in Bannack, Beaverhead Co., Montana
Mary Emily Mathews: Birth: 1 APR 1853 in Fabius Twnshp., Marion Co., Missouri. Death: 15 SEP 1914 in San Antonio, Texas
Rebecca C. Mathews: Birth: 3 SEP 1855 in Fabius Twnshp., Marion Co., Missouri. Death: AFT. 25 APR 1910
Archer B Mathews: Birth: 11 OCT 1858 in Fabius Twnshp., Marion Co., Missouri. Death: 1926 in Atlanta, CA
Jefferson Davis Mathews: Birth: 27 MAR 1861 in Palmyra, Marion Co., Missouri. Death: 5 APR 1947 in San Diego

Sources

1.	Title: Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 7 Publication: www.ancestry.com
2.	Title: Descendants of the Virginia Calverts Page: 132 Author: Ella Foy O'Gorman Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. : E.F. O'Gorman, 1947
3.	Title: 1860 Census, Marion Co., Missouri, Fabius Twshp Page: 972
4.	Title: Descendants of the Virginia Calverts Author: Ella Foy O'Gorman Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. : E.F. O'Gorman, 1947
5.	Title: 1900 Census Cooke County Texas Gainesville Page: Supervisor's District # 2, Enumeration District No. 30, Sheet 3(B)
6.	Title: Mathews Berry Family Bible
7.	Title: Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas Author: Sue Wood and Ronnie Howser Publication: Cross Timbers Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 197, Gainesville TX 76241
8.	Title: Tombstone - Rufus Mathews
9.	Title: Rufus Mathews
10.	Title: 1850 Census, Marion Co., Missouri, Fabius Twnshp Page: 267
11.	Title: 1850 Census, Marion Co., Missouri, Fabius Twnshp-Slave Schedule Page: 583
12.	Title: MO 1860 Slave Schedule Page: 59
13.	Title: 1870 Census, Marion Co., Missouri, Fabius Twshp Page: 462
14.	Title: 1880 Census, Pike Co., Missouri, Louisiana Page: 488
15.	Title: History of Marion County Page: 211 Author: E.F. Perkins, St. Louis, 1884
16.	Title: Missouri Marriages before 1840 Page: 152 Author: Susan Ormesher Publication: Genealogy Publishing Co., Baltimore 1986
17.	Title: Missouri Marriages to 1850 Page: 268 Author: Linda S. Barber Brooks

Notes

a.	Note: The fact that Rufus was appointed to protect a portion of the Quincy & Palmyra RR in Aug 1861and that he named his last son after the President of the Confederacy would seem to indicate that his sympathies were with the secessionists.

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