Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 125-126.  Graves Co.

DR. S. J. MATHEWS

     Dr. S.J. Mathews, physician and surgeon of Mayfield, was born in
Robertson county, Tennessee, March 23, 1835.  His parents were Thomas B.
and Fannie (Powell) Mathews.  The father was born in the same county and
state and died in 1864, aged sixty-seven years. The mother was born in
North Carolina, and died in 1860, aged sixty years.
     Dr. Mathews was reared on his father's farm, and at the age of
eighteen accepted a clerical position in a store at Springfield, which he
held for three years.  In the fall of 1856 he opened a store at
Turnersville, which he conducted till 1859, when he returned to
Springfield, where, in partnership with a brother, he merchandised till the
breaking out of the Civil war.  He then commenced the study of medicine,
and after reading two years he attended medical lectures at the Nashville
Medical College.  He began the practice of medicine in Graves county,
Kentucky, but did not locate in Mayfield till 1877, since when he has
resided here, now being one of the oldest practitioners of the county.
     Dr. Mathews was married December 21, 1858, to Miss Lou T. Morrow, of
Montgomery county, Tennessee.  She died December 5, 1859, leaving one
daughter, Lou, who married E.T. Taylor. The Doctor's second marriage took
place November 21, 1861, when he wedded Miss Nannie P. Bush, of Graves
county.  She died May 30, 1878, leaving six children, two sons and four
daughters.  December 12, 1878, Dr. Mathews married Miss Alice R. Boaz, also
a native of Graves county.
    Dr. Mathews is esteemed for his merits both as a physician and citizen,
and his career has been a useful one.

Matthews Powell Morrow Taylor Bush Boaz
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Robertson-TN NC Montgomery-TN

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