The
Dallas Morning News
April 10, 1907
Celebrate Golden Wedding
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Dr. T. M. Matthews and Wife of Athens
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SPECIAL TO THE NEWS.
Athens, Tex., April 9 -- Dr. and Mrs. Matthews today
celebrated their golden wedding. Dr. Thomas M. Matthews
Sr. was born at Cumberland Court House, Va., on March 6,
1830. His father, George H. Matthews, was a prominent
lawyer and for fifty consecutive years District Attorney,
but never sought or held a political office Dr. Matthews
after graduating at the University of Virginia in both
its academical and medical departments came to Texas in
1853, locating in Shelby County, when Judge and later
Gen. O M Roberts was practicing law there. In 1855 he
moved to Fort Worth when it was but a village. On April
9, 1857, he was married to Miss Emma Grazard in Mount
Enterprise, Rusk County. She was born in Silasand,
Norway, and came when but 7 years of age with her parents
to Nacogdoches. They have had thirteen children, eleven
boys and two girls ten of whom are now living, nine boys
and one girl. The boys are all grown and doing well. One
a lawyer, one an M D, one a D D S, one a merchant, two
ticket agents for the Cotton Belt Railroad, one traveling
agent for The Dallas News and one a clerk. There are
thirteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild living.
Dr. Matthews is in his seventyeight year. He has been a
very successful practitioner of medicine fifty-three
years. He never sought or held a political office. Was
for some six years Deputy County Clerk of Tarrant County
under G. Nance in the fifties and has served upon three
Grand Juries. Entered the Confederate Army as a private
in 1862, but was made surgeon and served most of the time
as surgeon of Parsons' Twelth Texas Cavalry and brigade
and later as president of the special ex-medical board of
the Trans-Mississippi Department. Was grand master of
Masons in Texas in 1881-82 and for the last consecutive
twenty-two years was and is now chairman of the committee
on foreign correspondence of the Masonic grand lodge.
Since 1853 he has been a constant reader, first of the
Galveston News (when there was no Dallas News) under the
management of the Richardson, and now of The Dallas News.
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