TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Hugh Mathena, 21 Feb 1915
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"Clinch Valley News"
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
Friday, February 26, 1915

HAPPENINGS AT TIP TOP
 Young Man Dies After Operation for Appendicitis-Personal Mention

   Tip Top, Va., Feb. 25
Hugh Mathena, age 30 years, died at the hospital at Welch on the 21st
instant (sic), after an operation for appendicitis, performed on the
10th. He was a son of Stephen P. and Martha Mathena, of Tip Top. He
leaves a widow, who was before marriage a Miss Ollie McNew, and three
children, ages 4, 6 and 9 years respectively. He, and his wife had been
living at goodwill, W. Va., for the past seven years. Mr. Mathena was a
miner, being employed by the Louisville Coal and Coke Co. His health had
been bad for sometime, and he had been at the Welch hospital three or
four times before, and the physicians thought he might recover without
an operation, but he grew worse, and the operation was had, as stated
above, two weeks ago. The deceased was one of a family of 13 children,
which were born to S. P. Mathena and his wife. Three of them died young.

   The remains were brought up on No. 5 on the 22nd, accompanied by
several friends from Goodwill. Many of the neighbors and friends of the
family came to the Mathena home to esprress sympathy and pay a tribute
of respect.

   Funeral services were held at the home of the parents of the deceased
on the 23rd by the Rev. Wysor, of the M. E. Church, pastor in charge at
goodwill, after which the body was buried in the cemetery, where many of
his relatives sleep. Our sympathies go out to the bereaved ones in this
sad affliction. A younger brother, Howard, is sick at Nemours with
typhoid fever, but is thought to be on the road to recovery.
[Hugh Humphrey Mathena, b. 16 March 1885, d. 21 February, 1915, s/o
Stephen Paris Mathena, (s/o John Wilson Mathena and  Mary Havens)  &
Martha Ellen Tabor who was a d/o James Russell Tabor & Martha Jane
Havens. Hugh's wife was Orla California 'Ollie' Mc New, d/o Henry Mc New
& Sarah Belcher. Brother, Howard W. Mathena , b. 23 August 1891, died
the following year, at Nemours, on 12 April 1916]

Karen EAGLE Moman
March 11, 2003


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