Annie Dora Matthews, born in Ohio, migrated with her parents to southeast Iowa in the 1870s where she died at less than ten years of age in Penn Township, Jefferson County. Having died in 1879, her cause of death ("rheumatism") is found in the 1880 Mortality Schedule. A Matthews family record provides June 16, 1869 as her date of birth, but – according to her gravestone -- her age at death was "9 years 4 months 11 days." That calculates to a June 12, 1869 birthdate, differing from family documentation. Her stone, certainly difficult to decipher from this 1964 photo, reads...
ANNIE DORA
Dau. Of
J. H. & E. MATTHEWS
DIED
OCT. 23, 1879
AGED
9 yrs. 4 mons. 11 ds.
Photo taken by DeeAnna in 1964
ANNIE DORA
Dau. Of
J. H. & E. MATTHEWS
DIED
OCT. 23, 1879
AGED
9 yrs. 4 mons. 11 ds.
Photo taken by DeeAnna in 1964
Annie Dora Matthews, born in Ohio, migrated with her parents to southeast Iowa in the 1870s where she died at less than ten years of age in Penn Township, Jefferson County. Having died in 1879, her cause of death ("rheumatism") is found in the 1880 Mortality Schedule. A Matthews family record provides June 16, 1869 as her date of birth, but – according to her gravestone -- her age at death was "9 years 4 months 11 days." That calculates to a June 12, 1869 birthdate, differing from family documentation. Her stone, certainly difficult to decipher from this 1964 photo, reads...
ANNIE DORA
Dau. Of
J. H. & E. MATTHEWS
DIED
OCT. 23, 1879
AGED
9 yrs. 4 mons. 11 ds.
Photo taken by DeeAnna in 1964
ANNIE DORA
Dau. Of
J. H. & E. MATTHEWS
DIED
OCT. 23, 1879
AGED
9 yrs. 4 mons. 11 ds.
Photo taken by DeeAnna in 1964
