My Mathis Family
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My 4th Great Grandfather
Nehemiah Mathis was born in New Jersey in 1797. The family had lived in New Jersey for two generations and were Quakers from England.
Nehemiah married Catharine Miller. They had a son named Samuel B. Mathis.
Samuel B. Mathis was born October 8, 1820 in Pennsylvania. He married Sarah J. George, July 13, 1843.
S. B. Mathis, a native of Philadelphia, and one of the pioneers of Warren
County, was born October 8, 1820; he moved with his parents to Champaign
County, Ohio in 1830, where he lived until he came to Warren County, in
1843. He is the eldest of eleven children, three only of whom are now
living, born to Nehemiah and Catherine (Miller) Mathis. He was bound out
when eleven years old to a farmer, and since that time his life has been
almost wholly passed among strangers. July 13, 1843, he married Sarah J.
George, and settled in Western Indiana. For three years, they farmed in
Liberty Twp., then moved to the place Mr. Mathis yet owns, in Jordan Twp.,
where they remained for upward of thirty-five years. In December, 1881, they
rented a part of the old homestead, which consists of 1,600 acres, moved to
Williamsport, erected their brick store and hotel building, and are now
engaged in the grocery trade and in keeping a hotel. When they first crossed
the Wabash River, twenty cents was the sum total of their cash assets. They
rented land and farmed under all those disadvantages and hardships of
pioneer life, and with their hard-earned wages, invested in land from time
to time until they are now among the heaviest land owners of the county. Mr.
Mathis was a Whig until 1856, was then a Republican and now belongs to the
National Greenback party. He and wife have had born to them thirteen
children - Ephraim G., James E., William F., Eli W. S., Mary A., Catherine
E., Samuel B., Almyretta, deceased, Marsh T., deceased, Sarah J. and three
that died in infancy unnamed. Mrs. Mathis was born in Champaign County,
Ohio, February 28, 1821, and throughout her life has ably assisted her
husband in all his efforts.
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