Douglas County KS Archives Obituaries.....MATHEWS, Mrs. Mary  September 6, 1943
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The Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Douglas County
Monday
September 6, 1943

Mrs. Mary Mathews
Mary MATHEWS, daughter of Samuel and Ellen SWISHER, was born in Leavenworth
county near White Church, October 19, 1857. She was 85 years , 10 months and 13
days old when she died, August 31, 1943.
May 31, 1875, she was married to Jonathan Mathews at Lawrence. To this union 13
children were born, seven grew to man and womanhood, six died in infancy. A son
Albert Mathews met his death in 1903. He and friend Fred BABER were crossing the
Kaw river when their boat upset and both were drowned A daughter, Mrs. Rosie
DULER, died in 1935.
Her husband died in 1938, since the death of her husband she has made her home
with a daughter, Mrs. Lyida OLSEN in Kansas City, Missouri. The last few years
she has lived with daughter, Mrs. Minnie WOODRUFF, of Humansville, Mo. Three
other daughters, Mrs.. Clara ABBOTT of Fall Leaf, Kan., Mrs. Stella DAVIS, of
Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Nort SMITH, of Chambers, Ariz. one brother, Jack SWISHER, 80
years of age. Also 11 grandchilden, 10 great-grandchildren and two
great-great-grandchildren survive. She wa a member of the Methodist church of
Bonner Springs. 


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