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- Judge George Mathews, Jr. was born in 1774 near Staunton, Virginia, and died 14 November 1836 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, where he is buried in the Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery. He married 1st, Sarah CARPENTER, daughter of Dr. Samuel CARPENTER and Mary FLOWER(S), who died in 1840. He married 2nd, Harriet CARPENTER, who was born in 1799, and died in St. Francisville, Louisiana, and who was a cousin of his first wife. He had one child by each marriage.
Gilmer [ Gilmer, George R., Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia, of the Cherokees and the Author, orig. publ. 1855, reprinted, Americus, Georgia, 1926.] makes the following assertion about George Mathews, Jr.:
"George Mathews, third son of General Mathews, was a man of talent and literary taste. He was a lawyer, but loved his ease better than practice, and so got none. He resided for many years with his brother Charles, at the Goosepond. He was appointed by the President Judge of the Mississippi Territory. He married soon after Miss Flowers, the daughter of his father's last wife. He afterwards removed to Louisiana, and became one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of that State. He loved good eating and drinking, became fat, and died long before he arrived at his threescore years and ten. He was very moderate in his expenditures, and died very wealthy. His daughter is married to Major Chase, of the United States Army. During the summer of 1823, my wife and myself were seated for several days at dinner opposite to Major Chase, his wife and little daughter, in the Astor House, New York. I had never seen either of them, and yet there was something about Mrs. Chase and her child that constantly drew my eyes to them. I met with Major Chase and his family afterwards in Washington City. I made their acquaintance, and found out that the attraction was the resemblance of Mrs. Chase and her little daughter to Judge Mathews, whose appearance continued impressed upon my memory, though I had not seen him for fifty years."
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