Martha Anna (Fletcher) Matteson (1848 - 1947)

Born 30 Mar 1848 in Warren Co, Illinois

Ancestors

Wife of Albert Norton Matteson — married 5 Jul 1871 in Home of Wesley Holman , Roseville, Warren County, Illinois

Died 12 Nov 1947 at age 99 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States

Biography

Birth

30 MAR 1848

Warren Co, Illinois^[1][2][3]

Death

12 NOV 1947

Kansas City, Kansas; buried Mt. Hope Cemetery^[4][5][6]

Burial

Have pictures of both grave stones

Event

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1935

Made a doll bed from small trees near white river for RBeda

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age 7 to fool sister Clarinda and ran away

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One adopted by Reason Goddard. Mary married a Smith Maybe the other sister did too

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1913

Arkansas

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1935

baby quilt for RBeda

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1935

For RBeda's doll bed

Note

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Marriage

FAM

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05 JUL 1871

Home of Wesley Holman , Roseville, Warren County, Illinois^{[7][8][9][10]}

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25 DEC 1839

Champaign, Illinois^[11][12][13]

Single

25 DEC 1839

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Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S83
2. ↑ Source: #S49
3. ↑ Source: #S46
4. ↑ Source: #S83
5. ↑ Source: #S49
6. ↑ Source: #S46
7. ↑ Source: #S83
8. ↑ Source: #S49
9. ↑ Source: #S46
10. ↑ Source: #S68
11. ↑ Source: #S82
12. ↑ Source: #S48
13. ↑ Source: #S67

• Source: S46 Title: Coffey1.FTW NOTEABBR Coffey1.FTW CONT
• Source: S48 Title: Coffey2.FTW Repository: #R6 NOTEABBR Coffey2.FTW CONT
• Repository: R6 Name: Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• Source: S49 Title: Coffey2.FTW Repository: #R6 NOTEABBR Coffey2.FTW CONT
• Source: S67 Author: Darlene Margaret Carignan Coffey Title: GEDCOM File : coffey - 000002.ged NOTEABBR GEDCOM File : coffey - 000002.ged CONT
• Source: S68 Author: Darlene Margaret Carignan Coffey Title: GEDCOM File : coffey - 000002.ged NOTEABBR GEDCOM File : coffey - 000002.ged CONT
• Source: S82 Title: JOYa.FTW From Biggs Family Genealogy by Mrs. Clifford Biggs Repository: #R6 NOTEABBR JOYa.FTW CONT
• Source: S83 Title: JOYa.FTW From Biggs Family Genealogy by Mrs. Clifford Biggs Repository: #R6 NOTEABBR JOYa.FTW CONT
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M857-GD8 : 9 November 2014), Josiah B Fletcher, Warren county, Warren, Illinois, United States; citing family 6, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Notes

N2715REFN: 2

MARTHA ANNA FLETCHER MATTESON

The following is a verbal account givento Orial Jane Matteson Mahaffey

by her mother after Orial was grown and she took it down at the time. It

is about what happened after her parents drown and the children were all

rescued by other fisherman. Brave little Alfred got his older sister and

his brother to hold on to the boat, while he put Anna and Laura on the

top of the upside down boat. His father made him stay with them so the

"little ones" would not climb down. Their father was an excellent swimmer

but their mother could not swim and was heavy set. He could not save her.

Alfred wanted to go help his father.

"I do remember the older girls running along the river bank and much

crying and a sense of loss and longing for my mother. No one came. I did

not know why my parents did not come with the Fishermen. Much later two

men came for us, but I didn’t know that they were ouruncles, Joshua and

Rezin Goddard. Whom I never saw again. They had a team and wagon and took

some of our things. We went and went through the woods. After awhile the

other man was gone (Uncle Rezin) and Laura too.

Then we went and went along time and I rode in the wagon most of the time

with Orin. He was sleeping a lot, but my older brother Alfred and my two

older sisters walked alot of the time. Uncle Joshua would get them to

sing hymns as we went along.I wanted my mother and father. Some times it

could have been fun if mother and father were there.

I don’t remember what or where the older ones went but Iwas at my

Grandfather’s. We were on a porch of the log house. There was a well with

a rope and bucket. On the porch was a big box with red apples in it. A

man and woman came, and they each took an apple and crooked their finger

at me. So I went home with them and lived with them. They were my uncle

Frank(Francis) and Lucinda Goddard. Brother Alfred told me many years

after that other relatives took the rest of the orphans and kept them

until they were big enough to earn their own way." (Anna was four years

and 8 months old.) WhenI was nine years old I was taken to live with my

older sister Clarinda and her husband, Jack Smith. He was not a good man

and I was not happy there. I was never very meek so later I ran away and

my uncle John Short found me and took me to Grandpa Goddard. John Short

married Sarilda Fletcher a half sister of Emily. The Short farm was in

next to Francis Goddard the brother of Emily.The neighborhood where they

were was called "The Short Neighborhood". (Grandmother Anna does not

remember how many Short’s lived there.) They were very loving to her.

Grandpa and Step-Grandma were very busy and austere people but they cared

for their own and I could feel it and I was theirs too.

As a child Anna remembers her grandfather encouraging her to sing and

recite at the Lincoln rallies. He furnished stamps and paper for her to

write to soldiers. Uncle Robert told her of soldiers who received no mail

and furnished her their names. She rode a horse to town and got the

neighborhood mail as often as it came in. Anna learned about medicines

from her grandfather. She followed himaround asking questions until he

had to answer her. One time she ask Grandfather Goddard about his name.

He said he was named for his Grandfather Goddard's mother. She commented

often that she must have been a trial to her grandmother. She used this

knowledge in the pioneering in Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas in raising

her family. She often helped her neighbors with her knowledge. Her step

grandmother was a mid-wife and she often helped with the sick, with

births, and deaths.

Grandfather made Anna do her stocking knitting and would not accept any

excuses if he caught her reading. He wanted her to read but felt there

were other things for her to learn. She would have spent all of her time

reading. He had a large library for

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Theresa Ellenwood for creating WikiTree profile Fletcher-2055 through the import of LucindaElizaBatesAncestors.ged on Mar 5, 2013.