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]

W. N. MATTHEWS, farmer, P. O. Hinton; was born in Harrison County, June
22, 1837; his grandfather, Richard Matthews, came from Virginia at an
early day, and settled in Harrison County, where he engaged in farming;
also had copper distillery on his place, in which he worked up the produce
of his own and adjoining farms.  He died at an advanced age and is buried
on the farm now occupied by his grandson.  The father of our subject is
still living, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, stout and active. W. N.
Matthews was raised as a farmer, which occupation he has successfully
prosecuted, being the owner of 325 acres of good land lying on the middle
fork of Raven Creek.  On the 30th of September, 1858, he married Eunice,
daughter of Isaac and Eunice (Coulston) Ramey, of Harrison County, by whom
he has eight children, four boys and four girls, named respectively:
Mary E., Lucy E., Alfred R., Robert B., George C., Eva J., Flora B., and
James T.  In 1863 he was elected Constable of Rutland Precinct, but
resigned in 1864, to enlist in the Federal army; he was elected Captain
of Co. I, lst Kentucky State Guards, under Col. E. P. Hawkins, and Lieut.
Col. J. J. Craddock; he served till [sic] the close of the war, receiving
his discharge in 1865.  After the war he was nominated by the Republican
party for the office of Magistrate, but was defeated by John Burgess, the
Democratic nominee.  In 1869 he was elected Magistrate as an Independent
candidate, over A. J. Perkins, the champion of the Democrat party; was
elected to the same office again in 1879, as an Independent candidate,
over John Burgess, his first opponent; is a member of Raven Creek (Masonic)
Lodge; has filled every office in it, from Tyler to master; is Treasurer
at the present time.  Till [sic] the outbreak of the war he was a Democrat;
his opposition to secession accounts for his present political views.

Matthews Coulston Ramey Burgess Perkins
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