History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 712. [Harrison County] [Rutland Precinct] RICHARD MATTHEWS, farmer, P. O. Hinton; was born in Harrison County, Feb. 25, 1839; his grandfather, Richard Matthews, came from Virginia at an early day and settled in Harrison County; he married Susan, sister of Whitfield Collins; he died in harrison County in 1837, upward of three score and ten years of age. Lewis Matthews, father of our subject, was born in Harrison County in 1817; he was a farmer; he married Jane, daughter of Thomas and Betsey (Kendall) Redd; he was noted for his fondness for hunting, and other out-door sports; he perhaps killed more deer than any other man of his day; he was an exceptionally good marksman, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war he was Captain of a rifle company. Richard Matthews spent his early life upon his father's farm; when nineteen years of age he married Fannie J., daughter of Colby and Ann (Henry) Brooks, by whom he had six children, four of whom are living, aged as follows: Annie S., twenty-one; THomas, eighteen; Jane, sixteen; Ollie, thirteen; his wife died Feb. 21, 1870; he next married Rosa, daughter of John F. and Mary (Woollums) Linn, by whom he is the father of four children, three of whom survive, viz: mary E., aged nine; Levie, six; Effie, four and Maggie, two; he is a member of Friendship Baptist Church; politics, Democrat. Matthews Kendall Redd Henry Brooks Collins Woollums Linn = VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/matthews.r.txt