Pike-Oglethorpe-Spalding County GaArchives Biographies.....John Barnett Mathews October 9 1839 - May 4 1906 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Valerie (Johnson) Freeman vcjfreeman@aol.com June 6, 2003, 2:28 am Author: "Memoirs of Georgia" published in 1895 by the Southern Historical Association Dr. J. B. Mathews, clerk of the superior court, Zebulon, Pike Co., was born in Oglethorpe county, Oct. 9, 1839. He is the son of Uel and Martha E. (Chandler) Mathews. He was educated in Greene and Heard counties, and attended the Oglethorpe Medical college at Savannah. In 1861 he entered the Confederate service, enlisting as a private in Company A, Thirteenth regiment, Georgia volunteers, and served until the close of the war, 1865. He was made captain of the company in 1864, and served in five general engagements, namely: Gaines Mills, second battle of Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. He was wounded five times in these bloody battles. Since the close of the war he has been engaged most of the time in teaching in the schools of Pike county. In January, 1895, he was elected clerk of the superior court, which position he now fills. He represented Pike county in the legislature in 1877, and was a member of the county board of education for several years. He has been a member of the Missionary Baptist church for forty-three years and has belonged to the masonic lodge since the age of twenty-one. Dr. Mathews was married in 1865 to Mary E. Brooks, by whom he has had eight children. The eldest, Dr. W. J. Mathews, is a prominent young physician at Zetella, Spalding Co., Ga. The names of the other children are: Martha H. Carreker, Emma U., Charles B., Robert C., John M., Mary E. and Sallie Lou, who is dead. Additional Comments: Pike Co., Georgia Marriage Index: Matthews John B. - Brooks Mary E. in 1865 pg. 202 * 1880 Census - District 505 (Concord), Pike Co., Georgia; pg. 7A J. B. MATHEWS Self M Male W 40 GA School Teacher GA GA Mary E. MATHEWS Wife M Female W 33 GA Keeping House GA GA Willie J. MATHEWS Son S Male W 12 GA GA GA Matie H. MATHEWS Dau S Female W 10 GA GA GA Sallie L. MATHEWS Dau S Female W 8 GA GA GA Emma V. MATHEWS Dau S Female W 5 GA GA GA Charlie B. MATHEWS Son S Male W 3 GA GA GA Robert C. MATHEWS Son S Male W 1 GA GA GA Lou BROKS Sister S Female W 25 GA GA GA M. BROCKS Mother W Female W 71 SC SC SC Julia PILKENTON Other S Female B 14 SC Servant GA GA * Muster Roll of Company A, 13th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry Evans' Brigade, Gordon's Division Pike Co., Georgia "Confederate Guards" Mathews, John Barnett (or Matthews) - private July 8,1861. Elected Jr. 2d Lieutenant, September 1, 1862. Severely wounded in right arm at Sharpsburg, Md., September 17, 1862. Wounded in foot and left arm at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2,1863. Elected Captain April 8, 1864. Wounded in hip at Wilderness, Va. May 5, 1864. In left arm at Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. Acting A. A. & I. General in 1865. Surrendered, Appomattox, Va. April 9,1865. (Born October 9, 1839. Died at Zebulon, Ga. May 4, 1906.) * East View (Baptist Cemetery), Zebulon, Georgia Transcribed by Jack Morgan on 3 March 1972. Mathews, Dr. J.B., b. Oct 9, 1839, d. May 4, 1906 Mathews, Mrs. Lizzie, b. Dec. 22, 1846, d. June 6, 1897 This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb