Winter Project Continued . . . . . .

With online records running short on George J. Mathews, I've begun looking to his survivors for clues. His wife, Charlotte Mathews (nee' Shuler), and son, George W., are recorded on the 1865 Kansas State Census living with her parents, Joseph and Jane Shuler in Linn County, Kansas. That record also shows George W's age as 6, which would put his date of birth about 1859; however, George W's gravestone records his date of birth as 1856. Another interesting note on George W.: in the Federal Census' from 1900 to 1940 he give his father's birthplace as Illinois, not Meigs County, Ohio. Additionally, a handwritten note from my Great-Grandmother Edna Mathews shows George W's place of birth as Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence is in Douglas County, Kansas. Perhaps George, Charlotte, and George lived there prior to his volunteering for the Union Army. With that in mind, I'll try searching Douglas County for records, and if that yields nothing, I'll have to consider Illinois. Many, many possibilities.

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