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Pearson, George, and Pierce

Henry Morton and Annie Smith

John, Anna, and Amanda

Nathan and Narcissa

JOHN WILSON MATHENY,MARY HAVENS

JOHN WILSON MATHENY HOME

JOHN WILSON MATHENY,MARY HAVENS

Ellen Matheny Vickors

Mason Walter Matheny

Grace Miller Matheny & James & Mason Matheny

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Smith Family

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In 1875, in the year that Ruth Matheny was born, on February 21st, Jeanne Calment was born in southern France. Her father was a shipbuilder and her mother was from a family of millers. She died August 4th, 1997 of natural causes - the world's oldest documented person to have ever lived - at the age of 122 years and 164 days.

In 1891, Ruth was 16 years old when from March 9th through the 12th, a blizzard hit the south and west of England. Called the Great Blizzard of 1891, it led to snow drifts of up to 15 feet and killed 200 people and 6,000 animals. Fourteen ships sank.

In 1932, by the time she was 57 years old, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours.

In 1948, Ruth was 73 years old when on May 14th, the State of Israel was proclaimed by David Ben-Gurion, who became Israel's first Premier, and the U.S. officially recognized Israel. That evening, Egypt launched an air assault on Israel.

In 1976, in the year of Ruth Matheny's passing, The United States celebrated the Bicentennial of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It was a year long celebration, with the biggest events taking place on July 4th.