ID: I05555
Name: Sarah Ellen MATTHEWS

Note: Reported by one researcher to be full blooded Cherokee Indian. However, per Carol Brown , Sarah was, in fact, Irish and Scot. Her father, David Matthews, was born July 6, 1822 in Ireland, probably Antrim. He immigrated to America before 1843, where he married Susannah McDonald on 27 Jul 1843 at Belmont County, Ohio. (FHL, batch #M51310 3, Belmont Co., Ohio Marriages). Sometime between 1846 and 1849, David and Susannah removed, along with other Matthews families, to Warrensburg Twp. (later Hazel Hill Twp.), Johnson County, Missouri. (1850 Federal Census for Johnson Co., MO, 23 Aug 1850, Roll 403, page 7; 1860 Federal Census for Johnson Co., MO, 1 Jun 1860, Roll 626, Pg. 726), where Sarah was born in 1852. Between 1860 and 1870, David & Susannah and their family, alo ng with either a brother or cousin, Andrew Matthews (who married David's eldest daughter, Jane, in Johnson Co. MO on 21 Mar 1866), moved to Linn County, Kansas (1870 Federal Census, Valley Twp., Linn Co., Kansas, 22 Jul 18 70, Roll 438, Pg. 169a). David died 9 Oct 1871 at Boicourt, Linn, Kans as (Bud Simpson, personal email to Carol Brown) Susannah remarried before 1880 to Manoah Swain (1880 Federal Census, Valley Twp., Linn, Kansas, Roll 387, Pg. 163a).