Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-05-14

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the Golden Horseshoe, assembled the
Blue Ridge, and perhaps penetrated the
Valley at Swift Bun Gap, or satisfied
themselves of its beauty, and were pre-
nared to believe all they had heard Of its
fertility and desirab!eness as home
II was about this date, the earliest that
we have any authentic account of the
settlement of Augusta, so that Mr..
Mathews was beyond all question in the
verv advance guard of hef pioneers, and
must have been contemporary OF John
Preston.
The Rev. Joseph Mcdowell Mathews,
a grandson of William Mathews and |
Mary his wife, now living at Hillsboro,
Ohio, in his 73rd year, was the oldest
son of John, the ninth child and sixth
son, and the youngest but two of eleven
children born at this stone house. His
mother was Sallie, the eldest daughter
of Col. Joseph Mcdowell, of West n.
c., and sister of Harvey H. Mcdowell,
son-in-law of the late Capt. Samuel
Meter, of Messy Creek, and Gen. Jos.
J. Mcdowell of Hillsboro, Ohio. We
are uncertain whether Mr.. John Math-
ews removed himself to Woodford coun-
tv, Kentucky, or, if so, at what date
His widow died there, leaving two other
sons. William, residing near Nicholas
vile, aged II, and Caleb at New Castle,
Kentucky, 81 years of age.
Mr.. Jos, Med. Mathews, when quite
"a youth, became the protege end pet OF
| the late Lewis Marshall, LII. D., who
was the Youngest brother of Chief JUS
| tice Marshall. He will be remembered
bv many as President for some years OF
Washington College. We will have
more to say of DR.. Marshall and his
| family presently. Under the care of SO
ACCOMPLISHED scholar as DR.. Marshall,
| Mr.. Matthews received most excellent
education He removed early in life to
Hillsboro, Ohio, and whether he became
a member Of the Methodist T.. Church,
| and licensed minister in Ohio or Ken
4 lucky, the writer is in doubt. Soon after
he located In HillsborO, he married
4 lady, born perhaps in your town, ana
4 only daughter of the late Andrew Barry.
4 She died in 1852 without children BE
1 cause of an affection of the throat, Mr..
NJ, being incapacitated from preaching
! onened a Female Seminary, the Oak
| land Female Institute, at Hillsboro, that,
4 having been carried on most successfully
4 for near forty years, has enabled him to
i educate as many of the young ladies OF
Ohio and adjoining States as any other
teacher in the West, except DIR. Beattie,
{ of Steubenvil]e, Ohio. No man has
/ filled up life. now protracted, and al
ways exceedingly delicate, with larger
amount of usefulness than Mr.. Math-
I ews. He is universally loved and re-
!. spected over Ohio and Kentucky. and
/ his old pupils and their descendants,
scattered over the West, rise up and call
him blessed. To him, now too feeble to
write, am indebted for most of the in
teresting information contained in this
communication, and through the kind-
ness of his only child, daughter, who
has acted as his amanuensis. She Is
the survivor of two children by Mr..
Mathews's second marriage in 1854 to
Mrs. Martha P. Sanders, nee Swing
She had no children by her frst mar
rage. She died in 1858. His present
wife, the daughter of British officer
and native Of Ireland, was Mrs. Mary
B. Hartman, aud has three children by
her first marriage. t8's ssE
,Asthere is an indisposition, as have
sometimes thought, on the part of man J
to know anything about their ances ers
and where this may be commendable, il
the descendants. have aaase to believe
they were unworthy, yet it viii interest
a large num- Der. whether relatives Of
not, to know who the pioneers were
who felled the fOrest-whO met the In
dian raiders and took part in the war OF
the Revolution. tsae
Mr.. William Mathews's eleven chill
dren, born in the stone house, as we be-
lieve, were as follows: Jane, born Jan
uary Goth, 1853, married Richard Ran
kin, who owned much of the land in
jennings Gap, and whose four children
married James A. Frazier. w. G. Dud.
ley, Cab. /. Hite, and Reuben D. Hill
Catharine, born December 18th, 1854
never married; Richard, born Apri
9th, 1853, settled at Abingdon, where
his descendants remaip; Joseph, borr
J August 9th, 1850, lived liz Augusta anG
f taught small school, and with hin
: Rev. Mr.. Mathews and his brother vii
, liam learned their A, B, C's; james
/, ried a sister of Abner Gaines, and liveC
in Boone county, Kentucky; Mary
: born May 10Th, 1867, married, but it is no
remembered to whom; William, borr
March 18th, 1859, settled in Tennessee
Sampson, born Feb. 23rd, 1771, nothing
known of him; John, before referred
to, was born on the Goth of February
1773; Elizabeth, born. Dec. Doth, 1774
married Abner Gaines, and lived il
Boone county, Kentucky. She Left {
numerous family. Her son, John P
Gaines, was in the war of 1872, and saa,
Iecstnseh fall He was also in the Mex
lean war, with the rank of Major, an(
, afterwards was Governor of Oregon
:. Margaret was born April It'll, 17SS, anG
married Peter Hanger. He was doubt
: less descendant, or it may have beer
q brother, of - Hanger, who, it il
said, buile The little log house, opposite
the water works. in your town, an(
4 whose remains, with his wife's, SLEEP
just south Of the Episcopal church, anl
y might have been removed to ThoFnrosi
cemetery, but for the rcnonstrance O
the late Jacob Baylor, one Of his de
seendants. Peter Hanger left two sons
in Little Rock, Ark6Dsas.
i Mr.. Mathews does not h;Glself re-
member that any of his Incles wers In
/! the Revolutionary war, except his incl,
James Mrs. Hubble, of Covington
i Kentucky, daughter of Mrs. Gaines
tells me that her mother went, when 6
1 little girl, to O certain Hill to meet bel
brother James returning ffcm the war
This must have been near the close Oh
! the war. my uncle James told me
that he had frequently heard Patrick
Henry speak, and that Writ had not
exaggerated the influence of his elo.
quenee lie was present at the celebra-
ted trial of, the suit of Hook for beef
The court was SO convulsed that the
clerk went out into the yard, and rolled
over On the grass, to give indulgence to
| bis mir&h." %
Lewis Marshall, M. D., LII. D., was
the youngest brother of the Chief JUS
tice. His son Thomas was the celebra-
/ ted Kentucky orator. The second son,
William, is living in the far West. The
third, Charles, is'dead. The fourth, Dr.
Alexander Marshall. is living in Jessa-
mine county, Kentucky. The fifth,
John, also living somewhere ip the
West. The sixth, Edward, cetempo-
rary of your correspondents at Wash
ington College, where, singular as it may
appear, was student under DR.. Mar
shall, Henry Vethahe, LII. D., and
Rev. Henry Rutfner, D. D., all as Pres
idents of the College, lives at his faith
er's old homestead in WoOdford county.
The daughter, Agatha, is dead. Thorn
as Alexander, and Edward, have bsep