Daniel Matthews 1831-1915

MATTHEWS, FOGG, DRYDEN

Posted By: volunteer
Date: 8/16/2006 at 19:13:18

from the Waverly Gazette, September 10, 1915 (Kansas)

DIED
Daniel Matthews died in Waverly at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. E. Fogg Friday Sept. 3, 1915, after an illness of 3 weeks. The body was shipped to Yates Center, where the funeral service was held Sunday, and interment made. He was 84 years, 5 months, 19 days of age.

He came here on Aug. 18th for a visit with his daughters, and fell and broke his hip. He had been in poor health for a long time, and age and the fall was too much for him, and death resulted.

Mr. Matthews was born at Greensburg, North Carolina, March 14, 1831. He was married to Miss Jane Dryden at Morning Sun, Iowa, July 15th, 1857. For nearly 58 years they lived and worked happily together. To their union twelve children were born and ten of them survive him. Mrs. Matthews passed on about 18 months ago. About 1870 he joined the United Presbyterian church at Olathe, Kas., and has lived a conscientious Christian life for 45 years. With his family he moved to the vicinity of Waverly and lived here until 1900, when he moved to Yates Center. He lived on a farm two miles north of Waverly from 1882 to 1891 when he moved to Waverly. He has been in poor condition physically for the past eight or more years.

Funeral services were conducted at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fogg, Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, by Rev. John H. Lamb prior to shipment of the body to Yates Center. A large number of his old associates and life-long friends gathered at the casket side to pay their respects to the departed. Mr. Matthews was a kindly hearted man who always tried to do the right thing by his fellows under all circumstances. Want never called to him in vain if he could relieve the needy one. He filched no fortune of the world, but he was wealthy in the kind of riches that are always at par in the Land of Bliss, However little it passes current in the governments of man. His riches were laid up where moths do no corrupt nor thieves break through and steal.