William R. Matthews
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
William R. Matthews was born in Cape Girardeau County, Mo., in 1823, and is the son of William and Charity Jane (English) Matthews. William Matthews was born of Irish parents, who came to America and located in North Carolina. Charity J. English was born in North Carolina. Her father, Thomas English, came to Missouri about the same time that she and her husband came and lived to a ripe old age. William Matthews, settled seven miles from Cape Girardeau about 1800. He accumulated considerable property, but lost the greater part of it before his death, at about seventy years of age. His wife lived to be about eighty years old. They were the parents of thirteen children, ten of whom grew to maturity. Two, including William R., are now living. The other, Louisa (widow of William Allen), lives in Cape Girardeau County, Mo. William R. was about ten years of age when his father died, after which he lived with his uncle until he was grown. About 1840 he came to Scott County, Mo., and located near where Chaney's Station is now situated, and remained five years, when he removed to a farm near Benton. About five years later he removed to a farm near Commerce, his present home. The farm consists of 700 acres of land, with 200 under cultivation. During the Civil War he served in the Home Guards. He first married Elizabeth Montgomery, who died about one year after her marriage. He afterward married Eliza A. Harday, a native of Tennessee, who came with her parents to Scott County, Mo., when a child. She has a sister, Delilah Adams, living in Pemiscot County, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews are the parents of four children: Thomas A. (who is engaged in farming near his father), Grandville G. (postmaster and merchant of Commerce), Missouri A. (deceased), Mary Jane (also deceased). Mr. Matthews and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Submitted by Connie Perkins
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