The surname is sometimes spelled with one "t." Edward Jackson Matthews's parents were James E. Mathews and Martha Frances ("Fannie") Britton (1900 and 1910 Federal Censuses for Mitchell Twnshp, Bertie Co., NC, and EJM's death certificate).
Edward Jackson Matthews was a machinist for the Southern Railroad. His obituary (Brunswick Times-Gazette, Lawrenceville, Va., Dec. 27, 1928, p. 1, col. 6) indicates that he was recovering from tuberculosis at the Blue Ridge Sanitorium in Charlottesville, Va., when he contracted spinal meningitis, which was the direct cause of his death.
Edward Jackson Matthews was a machinist for the Southern Railroad. His obituary (Brunswick Times-Gazette, Lawrenceville, Va., Dec. 27, 1928, p. 1, col. 6) indicates that he was recovering from tuberculosis at the Blue Ridge Sanitorium in Charlottesville, Va., when he contracted spinal meningitis, which was the direct cause of his death.
The surname is sometimes spelled with one "t." Edward Jackson Matthews's parents were James E. Mathews and Martha Frances ("Fannie") Britton (1900 and 1910 Federal Censuses for Mitchell Twnshp, Bertie Co., NC, and EJM's death certificate).
Edward Jackson Matthews was a machinist for the Southern Railroad. His obituary (Brunswick Times-Gazette, Lawrenceville, Va., Dec. 27, 1928, p. 1, col. 6) indicates that he was recovering from tuberculosis at the Blue Ridge Sanitorium in Charlottesville, Va., when he contracted spinal meningitis, which was the direct cause of his death.
Edward Jackson Matthews was a machinist for the Southern Railroad. His obituary (Brunswick Times-Gazette, Lawrenceville, Va., Dec. 27, 1928, p. 1, col. 6) indicates that he was recovering from tuberculosis at the Blue Ridge Sanitorium in Charlottesville, Va., when he contracted spinal meningitis, which was the direct cause of his death.
