Lucinda R. Matthews

born: Abt 1809, Pulaski Co.,Kentucky
died: Bef 1860, Wilton Junction,Muscatine Co.,Iowa
spouse: William SLAUGHTER
marr: 24 May 1830, Rush Co.,Indiana
born: Abt 1801, South Carolina
died: Aft 1870, Wilton Junction,Muscatine Co.,Iowa
occu: farmer
Children:
Louisa SLAUGHTER
James M. Slaughter -- born: Abt 1831, Indiana.
Elizabeth J. SLAUGHTER
Mary E. SLAUGHTER
Sarah A. SLAUGHTER

Pedigree Chart

                      |--------Preston MATTHEWS ( - )
                      |
           |---------Joel MATTHEWS (1755, (probably) Virginia - 1834, OH)
           |          |
           |          |--------RANSBIRD ( - )
           |
  |------James MATTHEWS (1779, Virginia - 1837, Indiana)
  |        |
  |        |          |--------
  |        |          |
  |        |---------Patty (1757, (probably) Virginia - )
  |                   |
  |                   |--------
  |
Lucinda R. MATTHEWS (1809, Kentucky - Iowa)
  |
  |                   |--------
  |                   |
  |        |---------
  |        |          |
  |        |          |--------
  |        |
  |------Margaret REED (1784 - 1824, Ohio)
           |
           |          |--------
           |          |
           |---------
                      |
                      |--------
A Slaughter family seems to be very connected to this Matthews family, although I do not know how William is related to any of them, or what became of Lucinda and William after about 1850. Besides Lucinda's husband William, there was an Elizabeth Slaughter married to Daniel Matthews in Pulaski Co., Kentucky. Also, Slaughters (later spelled Slater) were witnesses to for Hetta (Goodman) Matthews in 1856 in Cedar Co., Iowa, saying they knew her back in Pulaski Co. KY where she was married. According to a Slaughter descendent (not from this William, but from the others) the Slaughter family also came through Ross Co., Ohio in the 1810s and 1820s, then to Tippecanoe Co., Indiana by 1829 and Cedar Co., Iowa in 1837. There are several Slater families in the 1850 Cedar Co., Iowa census. This migration pattern matches pretty well with that of some of the Matthews family, in particular Lucinda's brother John Harvey. The Hatton and Dillon families also seem to be pretty inter-connected with the Matthews. Besides Gibson Dillon who married Sarah Matthews, his sister Catherine married an Isaac Slaughter (or Slater) and they all lived in Cedar Co. at the time of the 1850 census.

Harriet Hatton, b. 1819 in Kentucky, married a William Henry Dillon, who was a brother of Gibson and Catherine. Harriet Hatton was a sister of Elizabeth Hatton Matthews, wife of John Harvey Matthews. It was Harriet who urged John Harvey to come west to Washington. Parts of all these families went from Indiana to Iowa to Washington and Oregon. One brother of Elizabeth and Harriet Hatton, Harvey Jonah Hatton, married Perlina Matthews (a cousin of Lucinda) and settled around Muscatine county, Iowa (adjacent to Cedar Co.). Another Hatton brother, William Shannon Hatton, went to Oregon with John Harvey Matthews. The Hattons' father, Jonah Hatton, had also accompanied them on the way to Oregon, but died of cholera along the Oregon trail in Idaho.

Census: 1850, Moscow Twp,Muscatine Co.,Iowa

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