Before reading the following info there are differences of Bessie's birth year from b/c 1904, 1900 census- 1899, 1920 census -- 1900 ; d/c ,obit and date on stone (are the same 1906). I will leave the birth year as to what is listed on the d/c. obit, and tombstone; and people researching can have all the different dates to work with.
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Arkansas Birth Certificate
Name: Bessie Dean Matthews
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 29 Jul 1904
Birth Place: Cerro Gardo, Little River, Arkansas
Father: Sidney Parks Mathews
Mother: Minnie Permalie Mathews

(woman listed on the Bessie's birth certificate is her step-mother, not her mother. I asked a person supplying me with info about Bessie; how could a woman from a later marriage be listed as mother on the birth cert. I'm enclosing what they sent me:

I think I know how Bessie's birth certificate could be wrong. I came across an Arkansas birth certificate that was created for " birth's before 1914". It had a place for the doctor/midwife to attest to the birth Or the closest relative to verify the information. With the early deaths and multiple marriages and blended families in this Mathews line, I think they could have easily provided incorrect informant.

Mary Stout appears in a detailed family history created by Miss Jim P. Matthews for a 1970 Matthews family reunion; as the mother for Bessie Matthews(Mathews). Miss Jim P. was quite a historian and took her research seriously. Also she had relatives who knew the family history. I can find no birth or death records for Mary Stout Matthews (Mathews). Since Arkansas birth certificates were not required until 1914, it is possible that a certificate was created after that time. If so, Bessie might not even have known her mother's name , because Minnie was the mother who reared her.
[info under Bessie's birth certificate was provided by contributor # 49589418]
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1900 Magnolia, Columbia, Arkansas-- July 10th
S. Parks Mathews 32 -- Oct 1867 Arkansas (head--widowed)
Mettie Mathews 11 -- Jul 1888 Arkansas (dau)
Rex Mathews 9 -- Oct 1890 Arkansas (son)
Damon Mathews 5 -- Jan 1895 Arkansas (son)
Celestia Mathews 3 -- Mar 1897 Arkansas (dau)
Bessie D. Mathews 10/12 -- Jul 1899 Arkansas (dau)

1910 Census Pike City, Pike, Arkansas-- April 16th
Sidney P. Mathews 45 @ 1865 Arkansas (head-M2-married 8 yrs)
Minnie P. Mathews 36 Texas (wife-M2- 6 children- 6 living)
Damon P. Mathews 13 Arkansas (son)
Bessie D. Matthews 10 Arkansas (dau)
Eunice C. Mathews 7 Arkansas (dau)
Sidney P. Mathews 4 Arkansas (son)
Willie R. Matthews 11/ 12 Arkansas (son)
James L. Willingham 18 Arkansas (step-son-single )
Leona C. Willingham 16 Arkansas (step-daughter)
Lena M. Willingham 13 Arkansas (step-daughter)

1920 Census Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas
Mrs. F. I. McKibbin 68 @ 1852 Ohio (head-widowed-Proprietor
Rooming House
Bessie Matthews 18 @1900 Arkansas (single-roomer-Telegraph Operator)
Myrtle Smith 24 @ 196 Alabama (single-roomer- Teacher)
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Texas Death Cert:
Name: Bessie Deane "Matthews" Patton
Gender: Female
Race: White
Married
Occupation: Linotype Operator--for Odessa American
Age: 63
Birth Date: 29 Jul 1906
Birth Place: Arkansas
Residence: Odessa, Ector, Texas
Death Date: 10 Feb 1970
Death Place: Odessa, Ector Texas
Father : Sidney Parks Matthews
Mother: Ukn
Informant: H. N. Patton (spouse)
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Obit:
Rites Planned Here Friday
Services for Mrs. Bessie Deane Patton, 63,
910 North Graham, a veteran linotype op-
erator and proofreader for the Odessa
American, will be at 4p.m.Friday in the Bel-
mont Baptist Church with Rev. Lucian Rudd
officiating.

Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens
directed by Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.

She was born July 29, 1906, in Arkansas,and
was married to Herbert Nelson Patton in
Seminole, Okla.,Nov.28,1928. She and her
husband joined the staff of the composing
room at the American in 1947,moving here
from Borger they had resided in Clayton,
N. M.

Surviving are her husband and a daughter,
Virginia Newman of the home; two brothers,
Bill Mathews of Midland and Sidney Mathews
of McAlister, Okla., two sisters, Mrs A. J. Bolls
of Vinita, Okla.,and Mrs. Leona Parsons of
Oklahoma City, Okla.
N. M.