|--------James MATTHEWS (1779, Virginia - 1837, Indiana)
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|---------John Harvey MATTHEWS (1804, Kentucky - 1858, Washington)
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| |--------Margaret REED (1784 - 1824, Ohio)
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|------James Leander ``Lee'' MATTHEWS (1837, Iowa - 1910, Washington)
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| |---------Elizabeth HATTON (1813, Kentucky - 1878, Washington)
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James Leander ``Jimmie'' MATTHEWS (1868, Washington - )
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|------Mary Ann ``Pollyanna'' POWELL (1841, Missouri - 1916, Washington)
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The Silas Tucker and Jim Matthews families moved up from Puget Island to Lewis River and built their homes along the river on the D. Wells Gardner place about 1890. About 1895 the Matthews moved away and in 1897 or '98 the Tuckers moved their house and belongings including a cow on to a log float and floated down the river to the mouth and on up Lake River on a flood tide to Felida. They lived there on the float a few years then moved to a house in Felida. Columbia River fishing was the main activity of Silas Tucker and Jim Matthews. Jim spent his last years living on a boat house at the mouth of Lewis River.
I'm pretty sure that passage refers to this James because his father was more commonly known as Lee. The father James lived next to Silas Tucker in the 1910 census, but this James was listed as a fisherman in the 1900 and 1910 censuses.
Jim's wife Susan was the sister of Silas Tucker, who married Jim's cousin, Selina Ann Earnest.
Jim's second wife, May, was married three times. First to Mr. William Vanover, with whom she had five children, William, Pearl, Albert (Buss), Viola, Alice and Lena. Her second marriage was to Jim Matthews. After he died she also later married a Mr. Butts.
Sources for this individual: @S378@ @S1375@ @S376@ @S1323@
