Morgan-Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....Cartwright, Mathew T. 1846 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  MATHEW T. CARTWRIGHT, son of Hezekiah Bradley and Martha (Gray) Cartwright,
natives of Wilson County, Tenn., and Alabama, respectively, was born in
Limestone County, Ala., February 6, 1846. He was reared on a farm and in a
country store, and received an ordinary education in the common schools. He
became a member of the Confederate Army, Company F, Ninth Alabama Infantry. June
6, 1861; was in engagements at Frazer Farm, Seven Days' Fight before Richmond,
Sharpesburg, second battle of Manassas, the Wilderness, Seven Pines,
Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, and nearly all the battles in which
Lee's army participated. He served with a battalion of sharpshooters during the
last twelve months, and was in Lee"s army at the close of the war. After the
surrender, he farmed for a time, came to Decatur in 1871, and engaged in general
mercantile business, which he has prosecuted with considerable success, and now
owns desirable property.

  Mr. Cartwright was married, November 19, 1867, to Miss Carrie, daughter of
Samuel F. and Eugenia (Bayley) Mitchell. They have one child, Herbert. Mrs.
Cartwright died in the fall of 1869, and in 1872 he was married to Miss Ella,
daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth (Parks) Thomison, of Lincoln County, Tenn. The
second wife died in 1881, and in May, 1885, he was married to Miss Anna T., a
sister of his second  wife.

  Mr. Cartwright is a Knight of Honor, and a Knight of the Golden Rule.

  H. B. Cartwright, our subject's father, was born in 1812, and came to
Limestone County, Ala., with his parents about 1825; conducted a farm and two
stores; served in the Creek War; married twice, reared seven children, and died
in Limestone County in 1866. M. T. Cartwright is a son of the first wife, who
was born in 1816, and died in 1860. She was the daughter of Matthew and Matilda
(Vining) Gray, pioneers of Limestone County.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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