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- Anne Matthews
Date of Death: 00/00/1864
Birth Date: 00/00/1808
Spouse: 1) _____ Stuart; 2) Hiram Matthews
Survived By: Husband, Judge Matthews. Preceded in death by first husband and three children.
Other: (From an article about old cemeteries in the county): "Another very old cemetery is little known, and that is on Mrs. Harriet Alden's farm on the hill near the farm of Mrs. W.A. Cox [near Mooresville, Indiana]...Mrs. Anna Stuart Matthews [was buried there] in 1865. [Journey Through the Past gives her date of death as 1864.] She was the second wife of Hiram Matthews, Morgan County's first judge. Before her marriage to Mr. Matthews, she was a widow, Stuart, who came from Scotland. One of her children died on the ocean voyage and was buried at sea, and the other two died soon after her arrival, and she chose this hillside for a place of burial, and before her death asked that she be laid to rest beside them." [Naturalized in Morgan County in February 1844.] She was stepmother to the six children from Hiram's first marriage: Calvin, Seth, Joel, Mary (Polly), Cary, and Rachel. [Unknown cemetery was probably located on what is now known as the Richardson Farm.] [Additional source information from Journey Through the Past: A Matthews Genealogy, 1741-1985.] [Almira Hadley's "Brief History of Mooresville" notes that 2 children died on the voyage from Scotland "and were cast from the old sailboat into the sea. The two remaining ones died soon after her arrival here and were buried in the cemetery in Johnson's Woods and at her request she was buried beside them."]
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Obituary Source: Martinsville Republican article from 1913 (date unknown)
Source Information: One Hundred Men, by
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1808 - 1864 (56 years)
, d. 18 Aug 1876 (Age 78 years) 