Family/Spouse: Benjamin Harrison NORRIS. Benjamin (son of Colonel William Hutchinson NORRIS and Mary BLACK) was born on 29 Nov 1845 in Dallas County, ALabama; died on 22 Jul 1927 in Ocala, Marion County, Florida; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Ocala, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

CSA married Jane Ruth FERRELL about 1856. Jane was born in 1835 in South Carolina; died in 1900 in Marion County, Florida; was buried in Blue Sink Cemetery, Marion County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Cassandra WELLS on 05 Feb 1816 in Greene County, Georgia. Cassandra (daughter of John J WELLS) was born in in Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ "John Mathews, the eldest son of Gen. Mathews, whilst employed in learning Latin and Greek at an academy in Western Virginia, fell in love with a pretty cousin and married her. He returned to Georgia, and was authorized by an Act of the Legislature, to practice Law. There was some peculiarity in the Mathewses which prevented their success at the Bar. Many tried, not one ever succeeded. They were either too proud, too passionate, or too much devoted to other pursuits, to secure the confidence of those who wanted the aid of lawyers. John Mathews, getting along rather badly at the bar, procured, through his father, from President Adams, the office of supervisor of the revenue. The cousin whom he married, though a very pretty woman, did not prove a very good helpmate. They had a large family of children. They, as the children of cousins are apt to do, showed that whose who are so near akin ought not to marry if they can do otherwise; that crossing the breed is as important for man as other animals."

John Mathews had several children, the exact number unknown. His father's Will refers to his son John Mathews' three sons, George, Archer and John Mathews. Inasmuch as the only persons to claim the lands thus devised which were in Scioto County, Ohio, were George, Archer, and Charles Mathews, Jr., it is assumed that he (Charles) is who the General was referring to.

John married Elizabeth MATHEWS. Elizabeth (daughter of RS Archer MATHEWS and Letitia MCCLANAHAN) was born before 1766 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]