When Louisa Matilda Matthews was born on 15 October 1829, in Fayette, Perry Township, Boone, Indiana, United States, her father, Tunstal Quarrels Matthews, was 22 and her mother, Jane Chloe Morgan, was 22. She married Benjamin Franklin Black on 11 March 1849, in Shelby, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Moral Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Sugar Creek Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 31 August 1866, in South English, Keokuk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in South English Cemetery, South English, Keokuk, Iowa, United States.
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English and Irish (Ulster and County Louth): patronymic from the personal name Matthew . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, such as German Matthäus (from the personal name Matthäus, from Latin Matthaeus) and Slovenian Matavž (from an obsolete vernacular form of the personal name Matevž, from Latin Matthaeus). Compare Mathews .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Mathghamhna (see McMahon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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