Obit: Mrs. Margaret E. (Holloway) Matlock; 9-19-1904 Plain Dealing (Bossier Parish), La.

Source: Bossier Banner News (no longer in print)



Submitted by: Kay McMahan

Date: 2-4-1999





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            Our Grandmother

Mrs. Charles (Margaret Elvira) Holloway Matlock was born in Madison

County, Alabama, Nov. 6, 1823, and left this world for eternity, Sept.

19, 1904, being 80 years, 10 months and 13 days old.

She was united in marriage to Charles Matlock, Feb. 17, 1841, to whom

she was a devoted wife until the time of his death-Oct. 15, 1876. Eight

years after their marriage they came to this state (1849), and settled

in the northern part of Bossier Parish. Being among the first settlers

to this part of the state, she could tell us (of a younger generation)

many interesting  stories of life in a sparsely settled community

during the early days.  The old home-stead they first settled on made

their home until called beyond to unite with kindred spirits who have

gone before. Yes, she has gone on to meet husband, and only sister, Mary

Ann, one brother, Reuben Tillman Holloway, 2 sons, Strother (1862) and

Joseph (1901), 2 daughters, Amanda & Georgia. She leaves to mourn her

death many friends, one brother, John Marshall Holloway, who has now

grown feeble and is near life's end, four sons, Charles, Hartwell

Marion, John Roger, and Asa Matlock. Five daughters:  Mary Jane Love,

Elizabeth Rodgers, Martha Swindle, Callie Floyd, and Laura Goodwin,  58

Grandchildren, and 45 Great-Grandchildren.

She was known far and near as "Grandma Matlock". She professed religion

and joined the Methodist Church when quite young and ever lived a

consistant member of the same. She was charitable and kind. Her home was

a shelter for the weary and benighted traveler and a stopping place for

God's Ministers of the gospel, she loved God's people and loved their

company.

We who are left behind, let us not weep and mourn as though we have no

hope; but rather, rejoice that we have another jewel in Heaven, and may

we use it as a means of grace to draw us nearer to God, and in the

future strive to be more loyal to Him who givith and who taketh away.

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-Written by: Will F. Rodgers, Grandma Matlock's Grandson (1904)



(**Note from submitter: Will F. Rodgers was son of Elizabeth "Ella" Matlock & 

   Joseph D. Rodgers.  Margaret Elvira Holloway Matlock was my GGG-Grandmother.

 -Kay McMahan Noska)