From "History of North Carolina, North Carolina Biography":
The Matthews family has lived in Yadkin County for more than 100 years, and is of English origin. Dr. Joseph Matthews, who is now retired from active practice and lives at Cameron in Moore County, was born in Yadkin County in 1849. He is a graduate of the medical department of the University of Tennessee at Nashville, and after that practiced his profession for about twenty years at East Bend and for a period of ten years at Mount Pleasant in Cabarrus County. From Cabarrus County, he came to Cameron. He was one of the early patrons and later the principal in charge of the old Union High School at East Bend. This was an historic educational institution of Western North Carolina, and a school that in its early years attracted students from all over the South. Dr M. Luther Matthews (son of Joseph Matthews) himself was a student and a teacher in this school, so that the institution is one of peculiar interest and attachment to the Matthews family.
Wife listed as Mildred Davis, still living at time of death.
Burial in Vass, N.C.
Sources
"North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F3Z2-H9V : accessed 01 Oct 2014), Absolom Matthew in entry for Joseph Martin Matthew, 23 Dec 1918; citing Greenwood, Moore, North Carolina, reference fn 383 Cn 202, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1892459.
History of North Carolina: North Carolina biography, by special staff of writers (Google eBook), Lewis Publishing Company, North Carolina, 1919.
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