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Family of Loderick Matthews
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November 1, 1794 North Carolina - April 24, 1855 Jackson County, Texas
Buried Pumphrey Cemetery
 
 
Bible Record of
LODERICK MATTHEWS AND WIFE MARY HARRELL?? MATTHEWS



Possession of Mrs. Thomas J. Bolling

Copied by
Mrs. Carl Moore (Georgie Pumphrey Moore) on Nov.23.1961

MARRIAGES

Loderick Matthews and Miss Mary Harrell were married on the 20th of August 1818.

Jesse N. Pumphrey md. Mary S. Matthews Oct 18,1848

W. P. Laughter md. Lavonia Pumphrey May 4,1871

Pike Pumphrey md. Elsie Burnett Oct 28,1872

N. T. Gaines md. Lee Pumphrey Dec 31,1884

Richard Saunders, Jr. md. Jessie L. Pumphrey May 18, 1886


BIRTHS

Loderick Matthews b. Nov 1, 1794
Mary Matthews, wife b. Dec 31, 1798
Lucinda (daughter) b. July 31, 1819
Benjamin Rush (son) b. April 20, 1821
Madison Jefferson (son) b. December 20, 1823
Louisiana Suphrona (dau) b. December 11, 1825
Missouri Elizabeth (dau) b. November 13, 1827
Loderick William (son) b. February 26, A.D. 1830
Mary Sauls (dau) b. March 13, 1832
John Arthur (son) b. November 5, 1834
Erastus Allen (son) b. April 13, 1837
Dade Lewis (son) b. May 27, A.D. 1839
Allen Pumphrey (son) b. Aug. 1, 1887
(Allen was son of Jessie L. L. Saunders)

DEATHS

Madison Jefferson Matthews d. 5th Jan. at 3 o'clock A.M. A.D. 1839 age 15 yrs 15 days

Louisiana S. Lesueur departed this life on 5th July at 12 of the clock A.D.1847 Member of Baptist church 6 yrs

John Arthur Matthews departed life on 11 of September about 3 o'clock A.M. A.D. 1854 age 19 years 10 months 6 days

Loderick Matthews departed life on 25th of April about 9-1/2 of the clock A.M. A.D. 1855
Member of Baptist Church about 28 years. Acting Deacon for 26 years of the time
.
Dade L. Matthews d. 12th of Jan. A.D. 1868 age 23 years 7 mo. and 8 days. Member of Baptist Ch. 7 yr 6 mo.

Mary Matthews wife of Loderick Matthews d.Feb 26, 1874 at 10 minutes before 6 o'clock P.M. Member of Baptist Ch. (44 years ?)

Alan P. Saunders d. May 3, 1888 at 10 o'olk A.M.
 

Loderick Matthews

 



 

 

Mary Harrell Matthews Churchill
Wife of Loderick Matthews
Wife of Andrew Churchill

 


Children of Loderick Matthews & Mary Harrell Matthews
who lived in Jackson County, Texas
 

 


Mary Sauls Matthews
March 13, 1832 - May 2, 1883

Married

Jessie Pumphrey
January 14, 1827 - Decemer 18, 1909


 

 


Erastus Allen Matthews
April 13, 1837 - December 25, 1911
Buried Lytle Community Cemetery, Lytle, Atascosa County, Texas

Married October 8, 1856
Opheila Emily Garrett

Married c 1868
Lenora Helena Brackenridge

Lt. Erastus Allen Matthews
 Erastus Allen Matthews - Post War



Lytle Community Cemetery, Lytle, Atascosa County, Texas

Opheila Emily Garrett Matthews

 

 


Erastus Allen Matthews Family Bible
1864

 

Erastus Allen Matthews' Bible was given to his daughter Lorena Ophelia Matthews Jordan and then to Mary Estelle Jordan Queen. It is now in the possession of his descendant James Sexton who has been generous in providing copies of the pages.

 

This Bible is apx 11 x 15 in size.

the back of the inside page is inscribed:

E. A. Matthews Texana, Texas AD 1864


Joseph Lawson Logan
&
Lorena Ophelia Matthews Logan
holding the Bible of  her father,
Erastus Allen Matthews

  


Family Record
 

Deaths

Deaths


Died in Shelbyville, Tenn Jan 12th

1863, Dade L. Matthews, Age 23 yrs
7 months and 16 days.

 

Departed this life May 15th 1865
 Mrs. Theresa E. Garrett, 56 years, 3 mos
and 11 days.

 

Died on Carancahua, Texas January 30th, 1878
John Garrett, aged 65 years.

 

Violet D. Jordan died
on West Carancahua
February 1872

 

Joseph L. Jordan
Died Feb 20th 1957

 

Lorena O Jordan
Died April 30th 1957


Cornelia Mary Bolling
died in Palacios Texas.
October 21st 1926 age
82 yrs, 7 months, 16 days.


Departed this life Aug 1st, AD 1866
Lelia G. Matthews, Age 14 months
and 11 days. Sweet little
daughter of E. A. & O. E. Matthews.
 

"That merry shout as none I hear

No laughing child I see

No little arms caress my neck

No feet upon my knee

No kisses drop upon my cheek

Those lips are sealed to me

Dear Lord! how could I give my darling up

To any but to Thee."

 

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Departed this life July 1, 1867
Mrs. Ophelia E. Matthews, age 24 years, 8 months, 26 days
.

"Why should we weep for thee,

Since thou art gone,

Unsullied back to Heaven,

No stain upon thy Spirit's purity,

No sins to be forgiven."

 

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Died in Pleasanton Mar 19, 1866
Willie Allen Matthews
aged 26 years, 1 month, 18 days.
 

Died in Lytle, Texas
Erastus Allen Matthews
Dec 25, 1910. Aged
73 yrs, 8 months and 12 days.
 

 


Family Record
 

Births

Births

 
James Stark Williams
was born Braceville
Grundy Co, Ill. .- Feb 9th
1874.

 

Lorena Williams was
born Dec 12, 1908.

 

Margaret Williams
was born Feb 14, 1913.

 

James Bruce Williams

was born Aug 14, 1918.

 

Kenneth Bertrand White
was born Aug 24, 1897
_____, Iowa
 


Katie Izetta Garnett
born on the Tres Palacios (creek)
Jan 13, 1892

Ruth Lorena Jordan
was born May 6, 1908.

 

Rosie Darrell Jordan was born
Feb 20, 1910

 

Theresa Luella Jordan
was born Mar 4, 1913

 

Annie Frances Jordan
was born Oct. 8 1922

 

Edward B. Robertson,
Born Oct 29, 1910
Wharton, Tex

 

Robert E. Robertson
Born Sep 5, 1912
 


Family Record
 

Births

Births


Joseph Jordan
was born Aug 27, 1818

 

Violet D. Jordan
was born Jan 10th 1840.

 

Pinkney H. Jordan
was born Jan 18th
1859.

 

John H. Jordan
born Aug 20, 1863

 

Ralph Jordan
born Jan 28, 1866.

 


William Killebrew
Keller was born
on the Tres Palacios
creek, Dec 29, 1876.

 

Lila May Kellerman
was born Mar 11, 1898

 

Joseph R. Jordan
was born Dec 29, 1919, Died Dec 30, 1919.

 

Ellis Lorina Jordan
was born Oct 29, 1929, Died Nov 4, 1929

 

 

 

 




 
   


Family Record
 

Births

Births


Joseph Lawson Jordan
was born Jan 22nd 1861

Lorena Ophelia Matthews
was born November 3rd 1861

Darrel Pelton Jordan
was born Jan 17, 1883.

Alice Winnifred Jordan
was born Jul 8, 1884

Violet Ophelia Jordan
was born Sep 25, 1889

Joseph Lennox Jordan
was born May 28, 1892

Elmer Leroy Jordan
was born Jan 10, 1900

Mary Estelle Jordan
was born Sep 5, 1904
 
(included later births)


Family Record
 

Births

Births


John Garrett was born
Jan 9th 1813

 

Theresa E. Guidry was  born
Feb 4th 1818

 

Sextus Garrett was born
Dec 21st 1836

 

Leander Garrett was born
May 7th 1841

 

Ophelia E. Garrett was born

Sep 27th 1842

 

Cornelia M. Garrett

was born Mar 5th 1844

 

Odilia T. Garrett was born

August 15th 1846



 


Erastus A. Matthews
was born April 18th 1837

 

John G. Matthews was
 born July 29th 1858

 

Willie E. A. Matthews
was born Jan 30th 1860

 

Lorena Luander Matthews
was born November 3rd 1861
Was renamed Lorena Ophelia after the death of her mother.

 

Lelia G. Matthews was born
May 21st 1865

 
   


Family Record
 

Marriages

Marriages

 
John Garrett and Theresa
E. Guidry were married
Dec 5tj 1839.

 

Erastus A. Matthews and
Ophelia E. Garrett were
married Oct 8, 1856

 

Sextus Garrett and
Julia B. White were
married Oct 13th 1858


R. R. Bolling and
Cornelia M. Garrett were
married Nov 15, 1866.
 


Theresa Emily Jordan
and
Edward J Robertson
were married June 24, 1909

 

Bowen Robertson was
born Oct 29, 1910
in Wharton, Texas

 

Robert Elvirs Robertson
was born Sept 5th 1912

 

Olive Onida Robertson
was born Jan 10, 1915?
 

Franklin Estelle Robertson
was born February 6th, 1918

 

Elsie Virginia Robertson was
born Dec 18, 1924
in Texas City, Texas










 


Family Record
 

Marriages

Marriages

 
Joseph Lawson Jordan and Lorena Ophelia Matthews were
married Mar 3, 1882

 

Alice Winfried Jordan and William K. Keller were married Nov 27, 1902.

Darrell Pelton Jordan and Katie Fretta Garnet were married near Midfields, Matagorda Co., Tx Aug 8, 1907

 


Theresa Emily Jordan
and
Edward J. Robertson
were married June 24, 1909

 

Cecil G. Jordan and
Dessie Fitzerald
were married June 29th 1909

 

Floyd Lawson Jordan
was born April 2, 1910
 

Elma Jordan was|
born Sept 9th 1911

 

Cecil C. Jordan and
Lelia Hellerman were
married 1919
 

Mary Estelle Jordan

and

Arthur Clinton Queen

were married October 24, 1922

 

Kenneth Bertrand White and

Thersa Emily Jordan Robertson

married Aug 12, 1931

Richmond Tex

 

Kenneth B. White

died Sep 12, 1965 Houston, Tex
 
   

 


 Lenora Helena Brackenridge Matthews
 


Attended Funeral of Mrs. Matthews

Mrs. R. J. Brackenridge and Mrs. Martha Brackenridge, sisters-in-law of Mrs. Lenora Selena Brackenridge Matthews, who died Sunday morning in San Antonio, attended Mrs. Matthews' funeral yesterday at San Marcos. Dr. R. J. Brackenridge, her brother, was unable to attend.

Mrs. Matthews had resided a number of years in San Marcos, but had gone from San Marcos to San Antonio some time before her passing. She was 76 years of age and a native of Indiana. Close relatives surviving are her daughters, Miss M. Eleanor Matthews and Mrs. Bessie McIntyre; her son, John A. Matthews, her sister, Miss M. Elenore Brackenridge, and her brothers, George W. Brackenridge of San Antonio and Dr. R. J. Brackenridge of Austin.

Those who knew Mrs. Matthews declare she was a woman of exceptional intellect and culture, and of beautiful character. She established the Red Cross work in San Marcos just before moving to San Antonio.

Austin American-Statesman, January 22, 1918

Funeral of Mrs. Matthews

San Marcos, Texas, Jan. 22.--The funeral of Mrs. Lenora Selena Brackenridge Matthews, who died in San Antonio Sunday morning, was held here yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Matthews lived in San Marcos for many years, but had gone from San Marcos to San Antonio. She was 76 years of age, and a native of Indiana.

Surviving relatives are her daughters, Miss M. Eleanor Matthes, and Mrs. Bessie McIntyre; her son, John A. Matthews, her sister, Miss M. Eleanor Brackenridge, and her brothers, George W. Brackenridge of San Antonio, and Dr. R. J. Brackenridge of Austin, Mrs. R. J. Brackenridge and Mrs. Martha Brackenridge of Austin attended the funeral.

Mrs. Matthews was a woman of exceptional intellect and culture, and of beautiful character. She established the Red Cross work in San Marcos before she moved to San Antonio.

Austin American, January 23, 1918
 

Matthews Plot - San Marcos Cemetery, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas

 

Lenora Brackenridge Matthews

 
T. B. Matthews
 M. Eleanor Matthews

 
J. A. Matthews

 		 Isabella H. MacIntyre

 

 

Copyright 2018- Present by William A. Matthews
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Jul 2, 2018		 Updated
 

Jul 2, 2018
   

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