When David Evan Matthews was born on 30 September 1858, in Syracuse, Meigs, Ohio, United States, his father, David Mathews, was 42 and his mother, Catharine Evan, was 37. He married Alice Elizabeth Haworth in 1892, in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Sutton Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years. He died on 30 April 1946, at the age of 87, and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, 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 ).
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