Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Capt. Jacob Worwick MATHEWS

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Transcribed and submitted by Darla Ruebush, <darbush @wizrealm.com>, April 1998.
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CAPT. JACOB WORWICK MATHEWS - born in Pocahontas County, (then) Virginia,
November 9, 1839, was a son of Samuel G. and Naomi S. (HUDSON) MATHEWS.
In 1868 he took up his residence in Greenbrier County, and at Anthonys
Creek, this county, May 7, 1868, he was united in wedlock with Mary
Elizabeth HOYLMAN.  She was born in this district, a daughter of George
W. and Nancy A. (FLESHMAN) HOYLMAN.  Charles Forest, born September 27,
1873, is the son and the only child of Mr. and Mrs. MATHEWS.  At the age
of seventeen years Jacob W. MATHEWS was elected second lieutenant of the
Randolph County militia, and at the outbreak of the civil war he entered
the army in the Confederate service.  He enlisted May 18, 1861, in
Company I, 25th Virginia Infantry, as a private, and for meritorious
services in the early part of 1862 he received commission of second
lieutenant in the same company.  For gallantry on the field of
Gettysburg, July, 1863, he received a captain's commission, with which
he served till July 9, 1865, when he took the oath of allegiance, and
returned to his home, which he had never visited during the years of his
service.  He was a participant in the battles of Philippi, McDowell,
Front Royal, Middletown, Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, the seven
days fight near Richmond, Cedar Mountain, second battle of Manassas,
Shantilly, Harpers Ferry, Sharpsburg, Maryland, Mine Run, Fredericksburg,
Beverly, Buckhannon, Gettysburg, Bristow Station, and the Wilderness.  In
the last named battle he was made prisoner with his whole regiment, and
held until the close of the war.  He has accumulated his present fine
property since that time, having nothing left from the wreck of Virginia
in the war, and he now owns 900 acres of land at Alvon, on Anthonys Creek,
ten miles from White Sulphur Springs, and twenty-one miles from Lewisburg.
Coal, iron ore and medicinal springs of excellent quality are found on his
land.  He is also a member of the mercantile firm of MATHEWS & HOYLMAN,
dealers in dry goods, groceries, hardware, medicines, hats, caps, shoes,
rubbers, ready-made clothing, etc., etc. Alvon, Greenbrier County, West
Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.