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Source for: Edward Mattix, 1804 - 1855
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General Source: S203Page: p. 552
Text: p. 552 The Mattix, Robertson, Calvert, Nisbett, Smith and Related Families.
Edward Mattix II, who married Charity Robertson moved to Crowley's about five miles from the later Greensboro, with the Crowley and Pevehouse families. The Census of 1830 shows the couple were the parents of three children at that time. Sometime after settling at Crowley's, Ed Mattix, who, like his father, was a great hunter, went to Buffalo Island, and finding game plentiful established a claim there; he later moved to Maumelle Prairie, where he lost a large number of cattle in the great flood of 1844. In that same year he sold his claim to Dr. Varner, who became the first farmer and permanent settelr on Buffalo Island near the present Mangrum. After the flood of 1844 Mr. Mattix bought the place later known as the Sego Field, south of the present Jonesboro two miles, and died there in 1855. His body is buried on the farm, and the creek now called Higginbotham creek was named in his honor. Mattix creek. Children of Edward II Matiix and Charity (Robertson) Mattix: Jane married Fergus Snoddy and after his death married Nicholas McCall, Asa married Lucy Higginbotham, Cynthia married Arnold Stotts, Amanda married Joe Speaks, Mary married William W. Nisbett, Clifton married Missouri Crowley, Sarah remained single, Tom married Rhonda Higginbotham, Jim married Wilda Mcbroom, John, David, and Sammy died young.
General Source: S720Page: p. 11-12
Note: See sources under Thomas Jefferson Mattix for more of this article.
Text: p. 10: . . . my great-great-grandfather Edward Mattix, moved to the Maumelle area during 1838 and then to what is now Jonesboro about 1844/45. . .
p. 12: . . . I also wish to make a comment about King Crowley and the Mysterious Stone Images printed in several pasat Quarterlies. The point that got my attention was the location on the map shown as "number 2." [Ed. Note: See Vol. XLII, No. 1, Jan. 2005). That location is just across the highway from my great-great grandfather Edward Mattix's private family cemetery. The cemetery location is just north of the present-day Burger King property and under the first two houses on the east side of Harrisburg Road. Several members of Edward's family are buried there, along with my great-grandfather Asa Mattix and some members of the Pulliam Higginbotham family, who lived hearby at that time, plus some families the Mattix children married into. Our neighbor Ara Lamberson Kirksey, who now lives near Valley View School, recalls the cemetery and headstones very well. By the time I cam along, the stones had vanished, and little evidence of the cemetery was left--just the bodies in the ground. The last evidence of any of the tombstones was seen by a Mr. Raymond Turman, who was ccarrying out general lawn maintenance and landscaping during the 1990s. He saw the headstone of Edward Mattix learning against a tree. He notified a relative and by the time they stopped for a look, the stone was gone. During my youth my father never failed to point out the location of the cemetery when we drove along Highway #1 [Harrisburg Road]. It was all gravel in those days. So the location pointed out for the mysterious stones could possible by some of the stones from our cemetery in that area. I think the last burials of any of our family made there was for my great-grandfather Asa Mattix in 1865. -----A later e-mail from Charles Ed Mattix in June, 2005, stated the following: Poinsett County, Arkansas, records show that our Edward Mattix, who lived and owned that property during the 1850s, moved to Maumelle Prairie, Poinsett County, during 1838. He was flooded out during the 1844 St. Francis River flood and about a year later he moved to a point on Crowley's Ridge about where the new Home Depot stands in Jonesboro on the Highway 63 bypass. I have found land deed records in the Craighead COunty Courthouse that
p. 12: show Edward's family sold that property to other family members during 1870. Other land documents show that he bought 320 acres during 1852 from the state-donated lands program. Legal description of the 1852 property in today's farms are thus: the eastern boundary would be Browns Lane; the southern boundary, the Joe N. Martin bypass; the western side would be about a quarter-mile west of Highway 1B and the Martin bypass intersection; and the northern boundary, a half-mile north from the bypass. Edward and his wife Charity had 12 children. I think his main claim to fame was supplying wives to lcoal bachelors. His oldest daughter Jane was the spouse of Fergus Snoddy, who gave the 15 acres for the original town site of Jonesboro. Their daughter Mary was the wife of W. W. Nisbett, the first county sheriff and local business. ANother daughter was the spouse of Arnold Stotts, an Eastern Craighead County farmer who established the town of Stottsville that was later renamed Monette. [Sometime after Edward's death], his wife Charity married Joseph Speaks in about 1859 and she, as well as her daughter-in-law Rhoda Higginbotham Mattix and nephew J. T. Snoddy, are buried in the first row of graves on the east side of Carson Street across from St. Bernard's Hospital. Charity's daughter Mary and Mary's husband W. W. Nisbett are buried nearby, all in City Cemetery. As near as we can tell, two young sons, a 15-year-old daughter and my great-great-granddad Asa, as well as Edward himself, were all buried inthe private family cemetery, in addition to some members of the Higginbotham family. By the time Charity Mattix Speaks died during the 1890s, the property had long since passed out of family hands, so family members were buried elsewhere. At this point it would be nice it Edward's stone could be found--at least for the purpose of the birth and death dates it might provide. Some of our overall family research group are at odds on the exact dates of Edward's birth and death.
Date: Oct 2005
General Source: S714Page: Vol. 3, No. 3
Text: ...Edward Mattix II married Charity Robertson and moved to Crowley about the time several of their neighbors did. Charley Robertson (Charirity's brother) had married Peggy Crowley, Captain Benjamin Crowleys (sic) daughter. Abraham Pevehouse married Peggy's sister Polly. . .Some time after this, (1830 census) Edward II came to Crowley and built the house we now wish to have preserved for future generations to see. He also built a stockage and cabins for his slaves. My great grandmother Mary (Mattix) Nesbitt was born in this house on April 13, 1837. She was the first white girl to be born on Crowleys Ridge. Also William Pevehouse was the first white boy born there. In 1839 or 1840, Edward Mattix sold this house to Wiley Crowley. After the death of Wiley Crowley his widow married Dr. melon, who is credited with making various improvements in the house. It breaks my heart to see how it has deteriorated the last few years, as can be seen by the picture on the first Greene County Historical Mgazine and on a recently published issue.
Date: 1967