George W. Matlock - From History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington and Gasconde Cos. Biographical Appendix, pp 1050.
George W. Matlock, business manager of the Farmers Joint Company, was born in Crawford County, in 1845. He received a common school education, and remained on the farm until twenty-five years of age, when he was employed as a clerk in Cuba, In 1876 he was elected to his present position of business manager of the Farmers Joint Stock Company, and in 1882 was made secretary and treasurer of the same holding the latter position from 1876 to 1880 also. He has been president and a director of the bank of Steelville since its organization, and is a director of the Riverside Roller Mill Company. In 1871 Mr. Matlock married Jennie Halbert, a native of South Carolina by whom he has one son, Clarence. Politically a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity, Mr. Matlock is one of the most enterprising businessmen of Steelville, and has been very successful in a financial way. He is the son of Elias Matlock, one of the oldest living settlers of Crawford County whose parents were Robert and Mary (Carpenter) Matlock, residents of Kentucky until about the year 1818 when they settled in Crawford Co., Mo. and engaged in farming. Both lived to a good old age, and of their four children Elias was the eldest. The latter was born in Washington County, Ky., in 1807, and at the age of nine years came to Missouri with his grandfather, Isom Matlock. Elias Matlock married Mary Reeves who was born in Washington, Co., Ky. in 1811, and died in 1852. Mr. Matlock next married Allie Francis and after her death Mrs. Cicily A. Halbert became his wife. Mrs. Matlock owns six or seven hundred acres of land, all of which is the just reward of his industry. In politics he has been a life-long Democrat, having cast his first presidential vote for Jackson. In 1876 he was elected treasurer of the county, and in 1878 was re-elected, discharging his official duties in a creditable and satisfactory manner.
Note: Elias Matlock is shown in the 1860 and 1870 census of Crawford with wife, Ciciley. Another article about Crawford Co., Mo. says that Elias died in 1862 and was buried in the Matlock Cemetery in the Meramec bottoms.
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