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CPT Phineas Matthews

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CPT Phineas Matthews

Birth
Massachusetts, USA
Death
2 Apr 1854 (aged 83)
Cheshire, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Addison Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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Phineas Mathews

At Cheshire Township, Gallia County, on sunday morning, the 2d inst., Capt. Phineas Mathews, in the 85th year of life. His remains were deposited in the grave yard on the farm of the late John Bing, Esq., in Addison township, where they were followed by numerous friends and relations, and interred with Masonic rites.

The deceased was a native of the State of Massachusetts, where he resided until his twenty-third year, during which time he served as a solider in the state Line called to quell "Shay's Insurrection." He emigrated to the Northwest Territory in 1793 and landed in Marietta with Wayne's troops, and for several years resided there and at Belpre, part of which time he was fortified, with other inhabitants, to protect themselves from the Indians. About the year 1802 he came to what is now Gallia County, and located on the banks of the Ohio River, at the eight mile Island, where he married and raised a large and respectable family of children. The deceased was among the pioneers and first settlers on the County, when all was rude and wild, and lived to see "the wilderness bud and blossom as the rose."

Although the deceased lived to a "green old age" before the fell monster Death summoned him to his court, it should not flatter any that their term of probation will be thus long extended; but should serve to admonish that the "King of Terrors" is sweeping the earth with a beasom of destriction; for "Joseph died and all his breathern, and all the men of that generation."

Gallipolis Journal
Thursday, April 6, 1854.

Contributed by Cheryl Enyart

Phineas Mathews

At Cheshire Township, Gallia County, on sunday morning, the 2d inst., Capt. Phineas Mathews, in the 85th year of life. His remains were deposited in the grave yard on the farm of the late John Bing, Esq., in Addison township, where they were followed by numerous friends and relations, and interred with Masonic rites.

The deceased was a native of the State of Massachusetts, where he resided until his twenty-third year, during which time he served as a solider in the state Line called to quell "Shay's Insurrection." He emigrated to the Northwest Territory in 1793 and landed in Marietta with Wayne's troops, and for several years resided there and at Belpre, part of which time he was fortified, with other inhabitants, to protect themselves from the Indians. About the year 1802 he came to what is now Gallia County, and located on the banks of the Ohio River, at the eight mile Island, where he married and raised a large and respectable family of children. The deceased was among the pioneers and first settlers on the County, when all was rude and wild, and lived to see "the wilderness bud and blossom as the rose."

Although the deceased lived to a "green old age" before the fell monster Death summoned him to his court, it should not flatter any that their term of probation will be thus long extended; but should serve to admonish that the "King of Terrors" is sweeping the earth with a beasom of destriction; for "Joseph died and all his breathern, and all the men of that generation."

Gallipolis Journal
Thursday, April 6, 1854.

Contributed by Cheryl Enyart

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MATTHEWS

PHINEAS MATTHEWS
JULY 27,1770-APR.2,1854
MARY RUSSELL
AUG. 4,1783-JUNE 4,1815
ABIGAIL NOBLES
MAY 31,1794-JULY 12,1836
CHLOE SISSON CASE
MAR.15,1803-MAR.18,1855

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Large grey granite marker with 3 other family surnames on it - Russel, Nobles, Case

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