I POSSESS A LOCK OF HIS HAIR AND RIBBON CUT AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
George Shrum Mathews died on March 24, 1907 at 4:00 a.m. at 1514 Summit Avenue, Souix City, Iowa. The above likeness of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Mathews will be readily recognized by their many friends and acquaintances in Armour and vicinity. Mr. & Mrs. Mathews were probably the oldest couple in the state. Geo. S. Mathews was born in Ligonier, West Moreland County Pennsylvania on November 23, 1817 and married Miss Elizabeth Anderson Sterling on July 18, 1839. He moved to Waverly, Iowa, in 1855. Two years later Mr. Mathews was appointed postmaster of the Iowa city under President's Pierce's administration and held the office for four years. He lived in Iowa until 1869 when the family moved to this state, settling near Meckling, where they resided fourteen years. Another move was made, the family taking up their residence in Union County, where they remained nearly four years, coming to Douglas County in 1882. They remained in Armour until June 1906, when they were removed to Sioux City to live near their son. They have five children – two sons and three daughters—all living. They are as follows: Albert Gallatin Mathews, residing in Phoenix, Arizona where he has been in the employment of the government for the past fifteen years as a agricultural farmer. Geo. W. at present secretary of the Consumers Ice Company of Sioux City. Mrs. (Esther) John C. English(married John Clement English 11-26-1866) of Yankton, Mrs.(Amanda) B. M. Brink of Burbank(married Mr. Brink 4-25-1880.) Mrs.(Paulina "Lina) C. F. Mallahan (married J.C. Mallahan) of Jackson, Minnesota. In politics, Mr. Mathews was a staunch democrat, casting his first vote for Martin Van Buren in 1840 and voting for every democratic candidate for president since that time. He had a remarkable memory and has been an extensive traveler. In 1865 he crossed the plains to Portland, Oregon, enduring the privations and adventures of a frontiersman for a year, when he sailed for San Francisco and thence to the Isthmus of Panama which he crossed on the 23rd of March 1866. He then set sail for New York, and thence returned to Waverly, Iowa. He would talk for hours in an interesting way of events and incidents peculiar to the period of his young manhood. He died in Sioux City March 24, 1907, and was buried at that place. Mr. Mathews had many friends in Armour who will extend sympathy to the family and especially to his aged wife. He was a member of the Congregational church in this city, and the family was remembered by resolutions of sympathy and flowers. Mr. Mathews' life covered a period of 89 years and four months, much beyond the ordinary life of man, ripe with years and rich with fruitage. According to another genealogy source George had a brother John born 1834 in Westmoreland, PA died 1914. Findagrave #45733775 AND he had another sister Susana born 1837 - no further info on her.
George Shrum Mathews died on March 24, 1907 at 4:00 a.m. at 1514 Summit Avenue, Souix City, Iowa. The above likeness of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Mathews will be readily recognized by their many friends and acquaintances in Armour and vicinity. Mr. & Mrs. Mathews were probably the oldest couple in the state. Geo. S. Mathews was born in Ligonier, West Moreland County Pennsylvania on November 23, 1817 and married Miss Elizabeth Anderson Sterling on July 18, 1839. He moved to Waverly, Iowa, in 1855. Two years later Mr. Mathews was appointed postmaster of the Iowa city under President's Pierce's administration and held the office for four years. He lived in Iowa until 1869 when the family moved to this state, settling near Meckling, where they resided fourteen years. Another move was made, the family taking up their residence in Union County, where they remained nearly four years, coming to Douglas County in 1882. They remained in Armour until June 1906, when they were removed to Sioux City to live near their son. They have five children – two sons and three daughters—all living. They are as follows: Albert Gallatin Mathews, residing in Phoenix, Arizona where he has been in the employment of the government for the past fifteen years as a agricultural farmer. Geo. W. at present secretary of the Consumers Ice Company of Sioux City. Mrs. (Esther) John C. English(married John Clement English 11-26-1866) of Yankton, Mrs.(Amanda) B. M. Brink of Burbank(married Mr. Brink 4-25-1880.) Mrs.(Paulina "Lina) C. F. Mallahan (married J.C. Mallahan) of Jackson, Minnesota. In politics, Mr. Mathews was a staunch democrat, casting his first vote for Martin Van Buren in 1840 and voting for every democratic candidate for president since that time. He had a remarkable memory and has been an extensive traveler. In 1865 he crossed the plains to Portland, Oregon, enduring the privations and adventures of a frontiersman for a year, when he sailed for San Francisco and thence to the Isthmus of Panama which he crossed on the 23rd of March 1866. He then set sail for New York, and thence returned to Waverly, Iowa. He would talk for hours in an interesting way of events and incidents peculiar to the period of his young manhood. He died in Sioux City March 24, 1907, and was buried at that place. Mr. Mathews had many friends in Armour who will extend sympathy to the family and especially to his aged wife. He was a member of the Congregational church in this city, and the family was remembered by resolutions of sympathy and flowers. Mr. Mathews' life covered a period of 89 years and four months, much beyond the ordinary life of man, ripe with years and rich with fruitage. According to another genealogy source George had a brother John born 1834 in Westmoreland, PA died 1914. Findagrave #45733775 AND he had another sister Susana born 1837 - no further info on her.
I POSSESS A LOCK OF HIS HAIR AND RIBBON CUT AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
George Shrum Mathews died on March 24, 1907 at 4:00 a.m. at 1514 Summit Avenue, Souix City, Iowa. The above likeness of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Mathews will be readily recognized by their many friends and acquaintances in Armour and vicinity. Mr. & Mrs. Mathews were probably the oldest couple in the state. Geo. S. Mathews was born in Ligonier, West Moreland County Pennsylvania on November 23, 1817 and married Miss Elizabeth Anderson Sterling on July 18, 1839. He moved to Waverly, Iowa, in 1855. Two years later Mr. Mathews was appointed postmaster of the Iowa city under President's Pierce's administration and held the office for four years. He lived in Iowa until 1869 when the family moved to this state, settling near Meckling, where they resided fourteen years. Another move was made, the family taking up their residence in Union County, where they remained nearly four years, coming to Douglas County in 1882. They remained in Armour until June 1906, when they were removed to Sioux City to live near their son. They have five children – two sons and three daughters—all living. They are as follows: Albert Gallatin Mathews, residing in Phoenix, Arizona where he has been in the employment of the government for the past fifteen years as a agricultural farmer. Geo. W. at present secretary of the Consumers Ice Company of Sioux City. Mrs. (Esther) John C. English(married John Clement English 11-26-1866) of Yankton, Mrs.(Amanda) B. M. Brink of Burbank(married Mr. Brink 4-25-1880.) Mrs.(Paulina "Lina) C. F. Mallahan (married J.C. Mallahan) of Jackson, Minnesota. In politics, Mr. Mathews was a staunch democrat, casting his first vote for Martin Van Buren in 1840 and voting for every democratic candidate for president since that time. He had a remarkable memory and has been an extensive traveler. In 1865 he crossed the plains to Portland, Oregon, enduring the privations and adventures of a frontiersman for a year, when he sailed for San Francisco and thence to the Isthmus of Panama which he crossed on the 23rd of March 1866. He then set sail for New York, and thence returned to Waverly, Iowa. He would talk for hours in an interesting way of events and incidents peculiar to the period of his young manhood. He died in Sioux City March 24, 1907, and was buried at that place. Mr. Mathews had many friends in Armour who will extend sympathy to the family and especially to his aged wife. He was a member of the Congregational church in this city, and the family was remembered by resolutions of sympathy and flowers. Mr. Mathews' life covered a period of 89 years and four months, much beyond the ordinary life of man, ripe with years and rich with fruitage. According to another genealogy source George had a brother John born 1834 in Westmoreland, PA died 1914. Findagrave #45733775 AND he had another sister Susana born 1837 - no further info on her.
George Shrum Mathews died on March 24, 1907 at 4:00 a.m. at 1514 Summit Avenue, Souix City, Iowa. The above likeness of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Mathews will be readily recognized by their many friends and acquaintances in Armour and vicinity. Mr. & Mrs. Mathews were probably the oldest couple in the state. Geo. S. Mathews was born in Ligonier, West Moreland County Pennsylvania on November 23, 1817 and married Miss Elizabeth Anderson Sterling on July 18, 1839. He moved to Waverly, Iowa, in 1855. Two years later Mr. Mathews was appointed postmaster of the Iowa city under President's Pierce's administration and held the office for four years. He lived in Iowa until 1869 when the family moved to this state, settling near Meckling, where they resided fourteen years. Another move was made, the family taking up their residence in Union County, where they remained nearly four years, coming to Douglas County in 1882. They remained in Armour until June 1906, when they were removed to Sioux City to live near their son. They have five children – two sons and three daughters—all living. They are as follows: Albert Gallatin Mathews, residing in Phoenix, Arizona where he has been in the employment of the government for the past fifteen years as a agricultural farmer. Geo. W. at present secretary of the Consumers Ice Company of Sioux City. Mrs. (Esther) John C. English(married John Clement English 11-26-1866) of Yankton, Mrs.(Amanda) B. M. Brink of Burbank(married Mr. Brink 4-25-1880.) Mrs.(Paulina "Lina) C. F. Mallahan (married J.C. Mallahan) of Jackson, Minnesota. In politics, Mr. Mathews was a staunch democrat, casting his first vote for Martin Van Buren in 1840 and voting for every democratic candidate for president since that time. He had a remarkable memory and has been an extensive traveler. In 1865 he crossed the plains to Portland, Oregon, enduring the privations and adventures of a frontiersman for a year, when he sailed for San Francisco and thence to the Isthmus of Panama which he crossed on the 23rd of March 1866. He then set sail for New York, and thence returned to Waverly, Iowa. He would talk for hours in an interesting way of events and incidents peculiar to the period of his young manhood. He died in Sioux City March 24, 1907, and was buried at that place. Mr. Mathews had many friends in Armour who will extend sympathy to the family and especially to his aged wife. He was a member of the Congregational church in this city, and the family was remembered by resolutions of sympathy and flowers. Mr. Mathews' life covered a period of 89 years and four months, much beyond the ordinary life of man, ripe with years and rich with fruitage. According to another genealogy source George had a brother John born 1834 in Westmoreland, PA died 1914. Findagrave #45733775 AND he had another sister Susana born 1837 - no further info on her.
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