TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - NEWSPAPERS - Clinch Valley News, 19 Apr 1901 - Benbow
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"Clinch Valley News"
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
J. A. Leslie, Editor
Cost: $1.00 per year-in advance
April 19, 1901

BENBOW

Benbow, Va., April 18
MR. WALTER THOMPSON, and his WIFE and MR. HENRY THOMPSON took dinner at
MR C. A. LEECES, Sunday.
(Walter  Fulton Thompson, s/o George W. & Ellen Thompson, married
Harriett T. ‘Tennie’ Tabor, d/o Thomas Edward ‘Ed’ Tabor, Sr., &  Anna
Elizabeth Parker. I am uncertain of the identity Mr. Henry Thompson or
C.A. Leece). I DO find a Celaey  & Allis R. Leece in the 1900 Tazewell
Co., VA, Jeffersonville Dist. Census:
1900 Tazewell Co., VA Census
# 269, Jeffersonville Dist, Chas W. Matthews, enumerator
CELAEY M. LEECE,  (sic), 43, b. Mar 1855 in VA (all b. VA) farmer,
married 31 years (sic)
…..Allis R., 44, b. Jan 1856m wife
…..Lulie B., 20, b. Apr 1880, dau
….Lilla E., 13, b. Feb 1884, dau
…..Mattie B., 13, b. Dec 1887, dau

MR. C. W. MATTHEWS of Graham, is visiting friends and relatives at this
place this week and, attending court
[Charles Wesley ‘Wes’ Matthews 1848-1950, born in Hillsville, VA., s/o
William R. Matthews & Nancy Williams. Charles lived to be 102 years of
age and had served in the CIVIL WAR. He was one of the two CIVIL WAR
Veterans left in Virginia, by Aug 1949, and less than a score, in the
Nation. C.W. Matthews died October the 8th, 1950. C.W. Matthews married
Cynthia Cregar, d/o Montgomery Cregar and his first wife, Susan Felty.
(Charles W. Matthews is kin to my brother-in-law. J. E. Beard-per Karen
EAGLE Moman). C. W. Matthews was also a member of No. 222 Harmon Masonic
Lodge in Bluefield, VA].

MR. R. H. MATTHEWS of this place is moving his family to Graham, this
week, where they will make their future home. Mr. Matthews is going to
do carpenter work for the Railroad Co. (sic).
(Robert Harold "Big Daddy’ Matthews,, s/o Charles Wesley ‘Wes’ Matthews
and  Cynthia Cregar).

Karen EAGLE Moman
arizonaeagle@qwest.net
March 2002


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