Encyclopedia of MATLOCK/MEDLOCKs ~ O

OLDRIDGE MITCHELL, 20 June, 1882, son of Thomas Buckingham and Amanda Jane Cane Matlock, married 1908 Bessie Bessie May Martin. They had the following children: Thomas, died young; Edwina Naomi m. Edwin A. Haacke; Melvin Thomas, m. Ivy Lucille Boggs; Ruth Amanda, m. Roy Alfred Jones; Ollie Frances, rn. George Norris Haacke; Anna Mae Virginia rn. Thos. Pierre Wirfs and Melba Lee m. Edward Albert Holt. All live in St. James, Mo. except Ollie who lives in Longview, Tx. and Ann who lives in Houston, Tx.

OSCAR MEDLOCK - Information from a letter from Oscar of Lewiston, Idaho to Grace Medlock Page in answer to her letter to him: "My gr-grandfather and Gr-grandmother Medlock died in Indiana near Spencer sometime in the 1830s within a year of each others death, leaving a large family. *My grandfather being just a baby... An old man by the name of Putnam, who had just lost his son in death, took my grandfather to raise with his granddaughter as his son's widow and her baby daughter lived with him. Therefore grandfather knew nothing of his father or mother or where they came from. Also he never knew his brothers or sisters or what became of them. At the age of 18 grandpa ran away from his home and served throughout the Mexican War. Grandpa and the girl he was raised with were married. Names of their children as near in the order of their birth as I can remember: Alice, Richard, Oscar, Louis Corbin, Robert, Charlie, Noley, Agnes and Alfred. These children were all born in Indiana. His father was Louis Corbin b. 1857, died 1947 Portland, Oregon age 89. (Doesn't this sound like your James and Rosannah? JNA to Mr. McGee.) His father with brothers Richard, Oscar and Robert came to Cowlitz Co. Washington from Illinois in the fall of 1876. At the time he wrote he had one brother, William Louis Medlock living in Calexico, California. The following excerpt from the same letter: "At 19 years of age, I was walking from our home to town one evening and met a man I had never seen before who stopped me and inquired where a certain man lived. While I was giving him this information he kept staring at me and at last blurted out 'You're PAUL MEDLOCK, when did you leave North Carolina?' Naturally I was dumbfounded and told him my name was Medlock but not Paul, and that I had never been in the state of North Carolina. I think he thought I was not telling the truth. I finally convinced him that I was not Paul. He told me that I was the spitting image of this Paul and gave me his address in North Carolina. . . . . ' Also from the letter a tire dealer in Los Angeles during WW 11 told him that he was raised beside the Medlocks in Indiana and that his people and the Medlocks had come from North Carolina to Indiana in 1803 by wagon and that all of them were Quakers. (The above information was sent to me by Helen Whitson. JNA).

OSCAR, b. 1888 Rusk Co., Tx. son of Henry Pickens and Lucy Vardernan Matlock. Served in the US Army during World War1. Married but wife unknown. Died ca 1967 in San Francisco, Ca.

OSCAR, b. May 1880 according to the 1880 census of Hays Co., Tx. in household of Pleasant and Mary Matlock.

OVERTON, son of Charles and Elizabeth Matlock of Overton Co. Tn. Shown on 1830 census of Overton Co. Died before 1840.

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