E. D. Matthews 1854-1951

MATTHEWS, COON, BARRICK, HOYT, HUMPHREY, GIBSON

Posted By: Lynn McCleary (email)
Date: 7/27/2020 at 13:41:46

Morning Sun News-Herald, Morning Sun, Iowa Thursday, Jan. 18, 1951 page 1

Aged Morning Sun Man Dead

E. D. Matthews, 96, one of Louisa county’s oldest residents and for more than 50 years a resident of Morning Sun, died January 10 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Rollo Barrick of Wapello. His death followed a stroke he suffered New Year day.

In 1899 he with his family moved from Colorado to a farm near Morning Sun and since that time he resided in this community.

Son of David and Mary Ann Adams Coon, he was born in Neenah, Wisconsin on December 1, 1854. His mother died when he was 3 ½ years old and his father died while a prisoner of the Confederate army. The child was then adopted by the Nathan Matthews family of Omro, Wisconsin.

Surviving are a son, Stanley Matthews, Morning Sun, and a daughter, Mrs. Edith Barrick, Wapello. Other survivors are 11 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Mr. Matthews was until very recently a very active man. At the age of 94 he made a trip to California and only last fall he made a trip to New York.

In recent years Mr. Matthews has made his home where with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Matthews.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Pierce funeral home with Dr. Will M. Hughes of the Morning Sun United Presbyterian church in charge. Burial was in Elmwood cemetery.

Pallbearers included four grandsons, Lester, Stanley, Hoyt and Sidney Barrick, and Allen Humphrey and Ralph Gibson, the latter two husbands of two of Mr. Matthew’s granddaughters.