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Matilda Iredell Justice Taylor

5 Jun 1840 – 5 Dec 1923

Birth5 Jun 1840
Death5 Dec 1923
CemeteryKirk Chapel Cemetery
Tunas , Dallas County , Missouri , USA
Added byLanita SS on 15 May 2025
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14618409

Bio

Matilda Iredell Justice was the fifth of six children born to John and Sarah Justice. Her father was 41 and her mother was 35 when she was born. The family lived in Arkansas at a time when the area was sparsely populated. In 1841, when Matilda was 1 year and 2 days old, her mother died. Matilda was raised by her older sister, Mary Jane "Pop," who was 13 at the time of their mother's death. In 1846, when Matilda was 6 years old, her father remarried. Four months after the marriage, her father John D. Justice died. Perhaps that explains why Matilda told her children she only attended school 3 days in her life. That school was reached by walking 3 miles over a "blazed" trail where bark was stripped off both sides of a tree every thirty yards or so to mark the way. As she walked she had to constantly be on the lookout for wild animals. After her father's death, Matilda again was cared for by her sister. Mary Jane had married Thomas Taylor in 1848. By 1850 Matilda and her older sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" Justice, were living with Mary Jane and Thomas Taylor. They lived next to the farm of James Taylor, Thomas' brother. During this time Elijah Zachary Taylor lived on the farm of James for about a year. In July of 1854, when Matilda was 14 years and 1 month old, she was married to Elijah Zachary Taylor. In August of that year Elijah was saved and became a devout student of the scripture. Faith provided a firm foundation upon which the young couple was to build their family. Matilda is said in family records to have been a mail carrier by horse for the United State Post Office when she was a girl. Whether this was before of after her marriage is unknown. Matilda and Elijah's first of eight children was born in February of 1857. The following year the family moved from Missouri to Texas where they remained for two years before again moving to northwestern Arkansas. They remained in Arkansas during the Civil War. While the Civil War was raging, Matilda and Elijah opened their home to their neighbors and held worship services. Elijah would lead in worship and in prayer. This partial biography of Matilda is taken from A Journey Through Time with the Taylor Family of Missouri and Kansas by Emma Sue Davenport. ∼ John D. Justice Probate William Nettle to Affidavit estate of John D. Justice State of Arkansas County of Randolph I William Nettle do solemnly swear that the value of the estate of John D. Justice, decades who died intestate and upon who's estate I have prayed letters of administration, is not to the best of my knowledge and belief more than six hundred dollars, who's only heirs are one son and five daughters, viz Sarah C. Stogsdale who resides in Green County, Missouri; Jefferson, Margaret, Mary, Elizabeth and Matilda Justice, who resides in this county. That I will make a perfect inventory of and faithfully administer all and singular the goods and chattels rights and conduits of the deceased, and pay his debts as far as the assets which may cone to my hands will intend and the law direct, and that will account for and pay over according to law and assets, which should come to my hand or p******ion, so help me God! Sworn to & subscribed before e this 22 day of May A.D. 1847 William Nettles Thos O Marr, Clerk By A Smith Deputy

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