Joseph Batley Matthews at age 3. Born Amarillo, TX, 1914; died St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 1973. Son of Batley Matthews and Marjorie Melinda McPherson. Husband of Frances Elizabeth Clevenger; father of Rebecca Jarolyn Matthews; brother of Thelma Matthews and Wilton Matthews; grandson of Joseph W. Matthews and Lucy Elizabeth Waller and Samuel Edgar McPherson and Florence Hopper.
Joseph W Matthews was born on May 16, 1914, and died at age 58 years old in April 1973. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joseph Matthews.
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Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
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I retired in 2007 from Michigan State University Libraries to move to Charlotte, NC, where my daughter lives. I now take care of her three children and am loving it.