Excerpt -- Christiana, eldest daughter and fourth child of Samuel and Mary Guesman Matlick, was born in Reno district, Preston County, West Virginia, September 27, 1844. In the autumn of 1865 she came with her parents to the southwest part of Clark County, Missouri, where the family located on a farm. March 17, 1872, she was united in marriage to J. Wilson Ewart. They went to housekeeping on Mr. Ewart's farm one mile west of Williamstown, Lewis County, Missouri. To their union four children were born. Thomas Stanley Ewart, now living on the home farm; Florence Essie Ewart Alemong, of Atlanta, Mo., where her husband, W. S. Alemong and younger brother, Claud Herbert Ewart, are engaged in general merchandising. The third child, Shirley W. Ewart, died at the age of four months and nineteen days. Mr. J. Wilson Ewart died at his residence Nov. 7, 1901. A few years later Mrs. Ewart moved to Atlanta to be near her daughter. She had three times been seriously injured by accidents which made her infirm. On Christmas day she was stricken with a violent chill, resulting in pneumonia, which terminated her mortal life at 7:30 on Dec. 31, 1913. Her remians were brought to Wyaconda on Jan. 1, and thence by hearse to her son's on the home farm, from which the funeral was conducted on Friday, Jan. 2, 1914. The remains were laid by the side of her husband and son in the nearby Williamstown Cemetery. She leaves to mourn their loss the one daughter, two sons and five grandchildren; also five brothers and two sisters, Jacob G., Joseph S Matlick and Mrs. E. H. Bishoff, of Kahoka, J. N. Matlick of Wyaconda, Allen and S. E. Matlick near Bishop, Calif., and Mrs. J. C. Caruthers, of Kirksville. (written by Jacob G. Matlick, her brother)
Excerpt -- Christiana, eldest daughter and fourth child of Samuel and Mary Guesman Matlick, was born in Reno district, Preston County, West Virginia, September 27, 1844. In the autumn of 1865 she came with her parents to the southwest part of Clark County, Missouri, where the family located on a farm. March 17, 1872, she was united in marriage to J. Wilson Ewart. They went to housekeeping on Mr. Ewart's farm one mile west of Williamstown, Lewis County, Missouri. To their union four children were born. Thomas Stanley Ewart, now living on the home farm; Florence Essie Ewart Alemong, of Atlanta, Mo., where her husband, W. S. Alemong and younger brother, Claud Herbert Ewart, are engaged in general merchandising. The third child, Shirley W. Ewart, died at the age of four months and nineteen days. Mr. J. Wilson Ewart died at his residence Nov. 7, 1901. A few years later Mrs. Ewart moved to Atlanta to be near her daughter. She had three times been seriously injured by accidents which made her infirm. On Christmas day she was stricken with a violent chill, resulting in pneumonia, which terminated her mortal life at 7:30 on Dec. 31, 1913. Her remians were brought to Wyaconda on Jan. 1, and thence by hearse to her son's on the home farm, from which the funeral was conducted on Friday, Jan. 2, 1914. The remains were laid by the side of her husband and son in the nearby Williamstown Cemetery. She leaves to mourn their loss the one daughter, two sons and five grandchildren; also five brothers and two sisters, Jacob G., Joseph S Matlick and Mrs. E. H. Bishoff, of Kahoka, J. N. Matlick of Wyaconda, Allen and S. E. Matlick near Bishop, Calif., and Mrs. J. C. Caruthers, of Kirksville. (written by Jacob G. Matlick, her brother)
Family Members
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Jacob Guseman Matlick
1839–1932
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Joseph S Matlick
1841–1924
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John Nelson Matlick
1843–1929
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Isaac Newton Matlick
1844–1913
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Allen Matlick
1848–1935
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Sarah Matlick
1850–1851
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Frances Ellen "Fannie" Matlick Carothers
1852–1938
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Annabell Matlick Bishoff
1855–1938
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Samuel Ervin Matlick
1857–1945
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Mary Jane Matlick Burgess
1858–1908
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