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Owen Thomas Mathews

27 Feb 1830 – 15 Apr 1910

Birth	27 Feb 1830
Death	15 Apr 1910
Cemetery	Bethany Cemetery Plano , Collin County , Texas , USA
Added by	TJM on 05 Oct 2004
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9549366

Gravesite details

shared tombstone with wife Annie E.

Bio

In 1876, Bethany School began as a one room school house, with one teacher, Owen Matthews. The original Bethany School was closed in 1935. The new Bethany Elementary School opened in 1993.

Inscription

Aged 80 Yrs. 1 Mo. 18D's Private in Co. I, 5th Texas Partisan Rangers, Cooper's Division, Smith's Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (Source: Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865 by Yeary)

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Family

Parents

• Catharine Potoff Schrader Lunsford 1801–1884

Spouse

• Annie Elizabeth Oyler Mathews 1838–1886 FaG

Siblings

• John Omar Mathews 1820–1905
• Jacob Elzy Matthews 1822–1845
• Benjamin Franklin Mathews 1827–1878
• Elizabeth Ann Mathews Carpenter 1832–1882
• Nancy Katherine "Nannie Kate" Lundsford Haggard 1838–1921
• Mary Susannah "Susan" Lunsford Brown 1841–1917
• Simon Peter Lunsford 1843–1914

Children

• James Gipson Matthews 1856–1928 FaG
• Dr John Owen Mathews 1857–1941 FaG
• William Sigvert Mathews 1859–1928 FaG
• George Franklin "Frank" Mathews 1866–1962 FaG
• Annie Belle Mathews Forman 1879–1964 FaG

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