Matthew Tweedell

1808-1897 · Virginia

Born 1808, Virginia

Died 1897

Children include Nancy

Matthew Tweedell was born in Virginia on 11 February 1808. When he was eight his parents took him to Kentucky. He married Sarah Brown, a Kentucky woman, and their daughter Nancy was born in Hardin County, south of Louisville, on 12 December 1831.

In 1837 the family moved to Schuyler County, Illinois, and settled in the Pokeberry neighborhood. He farmed there for the rest of his working life. Sarah died in the Pokeberry neighborhood, about forty years before he did. His daughter Nancy married John S. Elmore in Schuyler County on 17 February 1850 and went with him to Adair County, Missouri, in 1855. Nancy's death certificate of 1911 names her parents as Mathew Tweedell, born in Virginia, and Sarah Brown, born in Kentucky.

He had seven children. In his old age he lived for some years with his son William in Camden Township. He died on Sunday night 25 April 1897 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Fry, at Ray, where he had been visiting. He was 89. Elder Hughes held the funeral on the Tuesday at the Sugar Grove (North) schoolhouse, and he was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery in Rushville Township. His stone reads: "Farewell. Matthew Tweedell. Died Apr. 25, 1897. Aged 89 yrs. 2 mos. & 14 days."

Children

Nancy Emiline Tweedle 1831-1911

Sources

History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888), p. 964; Cornell University Library copy, archive.org cu31924028846231.

Missouri State Board of Health, certificate of death, file no. 16809, Adair County, 1911; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975.

Find a Grave memorial 121101769, Matthew Tweedell, Sugar Grove Cemetery, Rushville Township, Schuyler County, Illinois; photograph by Pat Self.

Rushville Times, Rushville, Illinois, 29 April 1897, p. 7, as transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 121101769.

Rushville Times, Rushville, Illinois, 29 April 1897, p. 7, "Death of a Pioneer" (transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 121101769, with the gravestone photograph); Missouri death certificate 16809 of 1911, Nancy E. Elmore (Missouri State Archives); History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri (1888), p. 964.

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