TX Upshur Co Family Group Sheet for the William B. MATHIS #2 Family *********************************************** Copyright © Ronald Ellis Wade. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Ronald Ellis Wade Email address: ronwadegop@aol.com Husband: William B. MATHIS #2 Birthdate:20 MAY 1808 Birthplace: Washington, Georgia Death date: After 1867 Place of death: Upshur County, Texas Burial: Presumed to be Shady Grove Cemetery, Upshur Co., Texas Father: Lewis Mathis (1775 – 1834) Mother: Luranah Brantley (1779 – 1849) Marriage date: 18 Feb 1849 Marriage place: Tippah County, Mississippi Wife: #2 Lydia Bernetta READ Birthdate:18 Dec 1825 Birthplace: North Carolina Death date: 28 Sep 1857 Place of death: Upshur County, Texas Burial: Presumed to be Shady Grove Cemetery, Upshur Co., Texas Father: Lemuel Madison Read (1800 – 1862) Mother: Mary Ann McMurry (1803 – 1865) CHILDREN Child No. 1: Thomas Lemuel Mathis Sex: M Birthdate: 27 Feb 1850 Birthplace: Tippah County, Mississippi Death date: 26 May 1865 Place of death: Upshur County, Texas Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 2: James Washington Mathis Sex: M Birthdate: 13 Apr 1852 Birthplace: Calloway, Upshur County, Texas Death date: 19 Nov 1880 Place of death: Calloway, Upshur County, Texas Burial: Shady Grove Cemetery, Upshur Co., Texas Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Documentation: 1850 United States Federal Census 1860 United States Federal Census 1860 United States Federal Census Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 American Civil War Soldiers American Civil War Soldiers Civil War Service Records. The William B. Mathis family lived in Hardeman County, Tennessee in the 1830\'s where he was married to Martha Ann Fowler. According to the family lore of the William G. Milligan Family in the Upshur County Texas Sesquicentennial History Book page 229, the Mathis family, (called Matthews then), related to the William B. Mathis family, decided to move to eastern Texas and \"needed a scout to guide them and chose a neighbor who was pretty well known for this kind of this--the Davy Crockett! They crossed the Mississippi River at Memphis, traveled down through Arkansas and arrived at Clarksville, Red River County, Texas on January 17, 1836.\" \"Another source says \'Crockett and a number of others left the wagon train after crossing the Mississippi and joined the army of the Republic of Texas.\" In March 1836 he died at the Alabama.