h/o Virginia (Cole) Matlock, 4.214.1, married 12.27.1887, s/by. Genealogist have his death in 1937. s/o J.E.C. & Mary (Davis) Matlock. 1.1.6 & 7. Henry survived black diphteria in 1881-82 that took the lives of four of his siblings. f/o Ethel (M) Anderson, 2.214.3, Mary Ida (M) DeYoung/Ferguson, 4.241.3 & Virginia (M) Lee.
Spokane Daily Chronicle
May 14, 1936
Preston Matlock Funeral Is Set
Colfax, Wash., May 13. - (Special.) - Funeral services for Preston Matlock, 69, native of Missouri and resident of Whitman county since 1871, will be held at the Bruning chapel Thursday at 2 p.m., Rev. C. M. Hereford officiating. Burial will take place in the Steptoe cemetery.
Mr. Matlock died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Manuel Lee, after a long illness with paralysis. He was only four years old when his parents brought him from Nebraska, traveling by team and wagon. The father, J. E. C. Matlock, selected a homestead on the Palouse river west of Colfax where the Matlock bridge was later constructed.
In the early days Preston was a baseball pitcher, farmer and carpenter. His first wife died in 1908 and he married again in 1924 and his wife lives in Los Angeles. Three daughters survive, Mrs. Ethel Anderson, Mrs. Manuel Lee, Colfax, and Mrs. W. C. DeYoung, Thornton; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; a brother, Arvene Matlock, Alberta, and two sisters, Mrs. R. L. Coshow, and Mrs. Roy Johnson, Seattle.
Spokane Daily Chronicle
May 14, 1936
Preston Matlock Funeral Is Set
Colfax, Wash., May 13. - (Special.) - Funeral services for Preston Matlock, 69, native of Missouri and resident of Whitman county since 1871, will be held at the Bruning chapel Thursday at 2 p.m., Rev. C. M. Hereford officiating. Burial will take place in the Steptoe cemetery.
Mr. Matlock died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Manuel Lee, after a long illness with paralysis. He was only four years old when his parents brought him from Nebraska, traveling by team and wagon. The father, J. E. C. Matlock, selected a homestead on the Palouse river west of Colfax where the Matlock bridge was later constructed.
In the early days Preston was a baseball pitcher, farmer and carpenter. His first wife died in 1908 and he married again in 1924 and his wife lives in Los Angeles. Three daughters survive, Mrs. Ethel Anderson, Mrs. Manuel Lee, Colfax, and Mrs. W. C. DeYoung, Thornton; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; a brother, Arvene Matlock, Alberta, and two sisters, Mrs. R. L. Coshow, and Mrs. Roy Johnson, Seattle.
h/o Virginia (Cole) Matlock, 4.214.1, married 12.27.1887, s/by. Genealogist have his death in 1937. s/o J.E.C. & Mary (Davis) Matlock. 1.1.6 & 7. Henry survived black diphteria in 1881-82 that took the lives of four of his siblings. f/o Ethel (M) Anderson, 2.214.3, Mary Ida (M) DeYoung/Ferguson, 4.241.3 & Virginia (M) Lee.
Spokane Daily Chronicle
May 14, 1936
Preston Matlock Funeral Is Set
Colfax, Wash., May 13. - (Special.) - Funeral services for Preston Matlock, 69, native of Missouri and resident of Whitman county since 1871, will be held at the Bruning chapel Thursday at 2 p.m., Rev. C. M. Hereford officiating. Burial will take place in the Steptoe cemetery.
Mr. Matlock died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Manuel Lee, after a long illness with paralysis. He was only four years old when his parents brought him from Nebraska, traveling by team and wagon. The father, J. E. C. Matlock, selected a homestead on the Palouse river west of Colfax where the Matlock bridge was later constructed.
In the early days Preston was a baseball pitcher, farmer and carpenter. His first wife died in 1908 and he married again in 1924 and his wife lives in Los Angeles. Three daughters survive, Mrs. Ethel Anderson, Mrs. Manuel Lee, Colfax, and Mrs. W. C. DeYoung, Thornton; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; a brother, Arvene Matlock, Alberta, and two sisters, Mrs. R. L. Coshow, and Mrs. Roy Johnson, Seattle.
Spokane Daily Chronicle
May 14, 1936
Preston Matlock Funeral Is Set
Colfax, Wash., May 13. - (Special.) - Funeral services for Preston Matlock, 69, native of Missouri and resident of Whitman county since 1871, will be held at the Bruning chapel Thursday at 2 p.m., Rev. C. M. Hereford officiating. Burial will take place in the Steptoe cemetery.
Mr. Matlock died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Manuel Lee, after a long illness with paralysis. He was only four years old when his parents brought him from Nebraska, traveling by team and wagon. The father, J. E. C. Matlock, selected a homestead on the Palouse river west of Colfax where the Matlock bridge was later constructed.
In the early days Preston was a baseball pitcher, farmer and carpenter. His first wife died in 1908 and he married again in 1924 and his wife lives in Los Angeles. Three daughters survive, Mrs. Ethel Anderson, Mrs. Manuel Lee, Colfax, and Mrs. W. C. DeYoung, Thornton; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; a brother, Arvene Matlock, Alberta, and two sisters, Mrs. R. L. Coshow, and Mrs. Roy Johnson, Seattle.
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