WILLIAM M. MATLOCK - From biographical record of Jackson Co., Indiana:

He whose name initiates this sketch is one of the highly successful and representatives farmers of Jackson County, being the owner of a fine landed estate in Owen township. He is a loyal and public-spirited citizen, is held in unqualified esteem in the community in which he lives and has the distinction of being a veteran of the war of the Rebellion, in which he served as a member of an Indiana regiment.

Mr. Matlock was born in Hancock County Tennessee, on the 16th of October 1843, and is a son of Johnson and Dorothy (nee Matlock)* Matlock, both of whom were born in South Carolina **, whence they removed to Tennessee, where the former followed his trade of sleighmaking and also engaged in agricultural pursuits, his death there occurring in the year 1849***. His widow long survived him, having come to Indiana in the 1880's and having died here in April 1897, while she was a devoted and consistent rnember of the Baptist Church. This worthy couple became the parents of twelve children of whom six are now living, the subject of this sketch having been the seventh in order of birth.

William M. Matlock received his educational training in the common schools of his native county, and from his youth up has been actively identified with agricultural pursuits. In 1859 he carne to Indiana and located in Jackson County, where he was residing at the outbreak of the Civil War. He tendered his services in defense of the Union, enlisting on the 10th of October 1861, as a private in Company H, Fiftieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. John Scott having been captain of his company. He proceeded with his command to the front and re-enlisted at the close of his original term, continuing in active service until the close of the war and participating in many of the most notable engagements indicental to the progress of the great conflict, After the war he returned to Tennessee, where he became the owner of a farm, of four hundred acres, in Hancock County, and there he continued to be actively engaged in farming until 1887, when he disposed of his holdings and again came to Indiana, locating in Jackson County. He purchased a farm of three hundred acres in Owen township and to the same has since added until he now has a valuable landed estate of five hundred and fifty-six acres, the major portion being under a high state of cultivation, while he also gives not a little attention to the raising of livestock of high grade. He is an alert business man and a progressive and discriminating farmer, while it is scarcely necessary to say that he has attained a high degree of success in connection with the great basic industry of agriculture. He has erected a commodious and attractive modern residence on his place and the other farm buildings are in harmony with the same, the entire farm giving unmistakable evidence of thrift and prosperity. In politics Mr. Matlock is a staunch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 5th of July 1866, Mr. Matlock was united in marriage to Mrs. Tabitha (Carter) Lewis, widow of Martin Lewis, to whom she bore two children, Rachel, who is now the wife of James Drinum, and Martin L. who is a resident of Oklahoma. Mrs. Matlock was born in Tennessee, and is a daughter of Thomas and Mary Carter, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter in Tennessee, both being members of sterling old southern families. Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Matlock we enter the following record, in conclusion of this brief sketch: Nancy, who became the wife of William Ford, is deceased; Mary is the

wife of Buell Brown, of Kurtz; Nellie Ann, who became the wif e of William Riley, is deceased; Josephine is the wife of Howard Armbruster, of Kurtz; James is a resident of the state of Utah; Matilda is the wife of John Scott, of Owen township; Neal, M.D. is a resident of Medora; and Houston is studying medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, all of the children having been afforded good educational advantages.

*Parenthesis are mine. JNA

** Johnson is shown in 1850 census of Hancock Co., Tenneesee, as being born in N.C. Also Wife. In 1880 William M. says parents born in N.C.

*** As shown above Johnson was still alive in 1850. If either Johnson or Dorothy was a child of Richard, they would have been by his first wife.

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