MATTHEWS CEMETERY, SUSSEX CO., DE North of Route 24 and two miles west of Lowes Crossroads This file is part of the Delaware Tombstone Transcription Project http://www.usgwtombstones.org/delaware/delaware.html ********************************************* http://usgwarchives.net/de/defiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project & USGenWeb Archives by: Lloyd Matthews (lloydwm@earthlink.net) Submitted: October 5, 2001, Updated: September 20, 2008 To contribute additional information or a tombstone transcription, please contact the DE Tombstone Transcription Project Manager at decemetery@yahoo.com Lloyd's note from October 2001: The cemetery is at the edge of a field just off Sam Hill Road. I have been able to record forty people of those buried with information from the field and various sources. Steve Matthews and Carlene Campbell, both local residents, have started repairing the cemetery NAME BIRTH DEATH AGE NOTES ======================================================================================================================= Samuel Dobson 3/22/1818 9/16/1872 54Y-5M-25D Euphemia E. Dobson 9/7/1830 2/22/1882 51Y-5M-15D wife of Samuel Dobson Cintha Ann English 8/25/1832 2/20/1860 27Y-5M-26D wife of James W. English Elisha S. English 2/9/1852 9/26/1883 son of James W. & Cintha Ann English Palmyra C. English 10/10/1855 12/29/1923 wife of Phillip E. English Cynthia H. English 12/13/1876 8/23/1902 dau of Phillip E. & Palmyra C. English John W. English 3/27/1869 8/10/1907 son of James W. & Elizabeth English Jonathan J. B. Fooks 1/23/1815 9/13/1885 70Y-7M-21D Luranah A. Fooks 3/18/1825 4/22/1862 37Y-1M-4D wife of Jonathan J. B. Fooks Columbus Fooks 6/3/1880 24Y-0M-11D son J. I. F. ? ? footstone only Hezekiah Matthews 4/5/1797 5/12/1880 83Y-1M-7D Polly Matthews 5/19/1802 7/20/1847 45Y-2M-1D wife of Hezekiah Matthews John S. Matthews 12/16/1826 11/16/1864 37Y-11M Com H of (?) 9th Reg of Del Volunteers Catherine 11/16/1827 3/21/1892 wife of John S. Matthews Maud Matthews 3/27/1889 9/3/1889 5M-7D dau of William E. & Maggie Matthews Bertie S. Matthews 3/13/1888 12/13/1876 dau of William E. & Maggie Matthews Nutter S. Matthews 5/12/1820 5/18/1874 son of James & Charlotte Matthews Phillip W. Matthews 10/13/1799 3/2/1878 78Y-4M-20D Elenora Matthews 9/24/1805 4/22/1875 69Y-6M-29D wife of Phillip W. Matthews Stansbury C. Matthews 10/19/1833 3/13/1899 W. Sarah Margaret Matthews 12/21/1855 1/31/1930 wife of Stanbury C. Matthews Charlie L. Matthews 1/9/1880 1/13/1882 son of Stansbury & Sarah Matthews Wingate Matthews 12/10/1791 4/7/1865 73Y-3M-28D Nancy Matthews 2/13/1792 6/15/1859 67Y-4M-2D wife of Wingate Matthews John W. Parsons 6/12/1824 11/26/1874 50Y-5m-14D Margaret L. Parsons 9/28/1828 12/21/1898 wife of John Parsons Phillip E. Parsons 12/22/1846 10/12/1877 30Y-9m-20D son of John W. & Margaret C. Parsons James Fletcher Parsons 1/27/1850 4/24/1853 3Y-2M-28D son of John W. & Margaret C. Parsons Ebenezer H. Parsons 3/29/1832 2/13/1916 Luranah E. Parsons 10/30/1843 9/28/1884 40Y-10M-29D 1st wife Ebenezer H. Parsons Alfred S. Parsons* 12/3/1873 4/3/1904 son Maggie W. Parsons 9/25/1867 11/29/1875 8Y-2M-4D daughter Ramon Parsons 10/11/1871 10/13/1871 2D daughter Nolen Parsons 2/4/1870 3/2/1870 26D daughter Martha E. Parsons 12/20/1863 4/28/1864 4M-8D daughter Lizzie F. Parsons ? ? 2nd wife Ebenezer H. Parsons Amelia Adaline (Matthews) Phillips 9/3/1836 6/29/1884 wife of Joshua Phillips Emma E. Stephens 4/20/1852 8/24/1892 wife of W. R. Stephens & Phillip E. Parsons John Henry Wingate ? 7/2/1850 son of Cannon & Eliza Wingate 3 Wooden Markers illegible in 2000 Note - Above information is based on 1. Field observation at Matthews Cemetery on March 5, 2000 and October 5, 2004 by Lloyd Matthews 2. Church of Latter Day Saints microfilm # 0006303, Delaware Churches 3. Hudson & Tatnall's Cemetery Records of Sussex Co, DE transcribed by Robert J. Redden, 2005 *(Woodsman of the World erected tombstone)