Lucille Courtway

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According to Dorothy Weiser Seale's Mat(t)hias Milestones, as of 1952, Lucille resided in Spokane, Washington. Lucille had no children.

Family/Spouse: Robert Pung. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: David Lewis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nickname: French
According to Dorothy Weiser Seale's Mat(t)hias Milestones, French and Ora initially resided in Webb City, Missouri but moved to Fairbury, Nebraska in 1897. French was employed as a locomotive fireman for the Rock Island Railroad Company and died due to diabetes. He was buried with masonic honors, being a member of Fairbury Masonic Lodge No. 85 A.F. & A.M. The lodge "...conducted the funeral ceremony. The engineers and firemen of the city attended the service in a body as a token of their esteem, and Resolutions were written by the Lodge which were sent to the family and to the city newspaper (p. 162-163)."

Henry married Nancy Ora Mathias. Nancy (daughter of Jacob Franklin Mathias and Margaret Janette Alward) was born on 31 Jul 1871 in Camden, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States; died on 17 Oct 1952 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nickname: Ora
At the time of her brother's death in October 1944, Ora resided in Spokane, Washington.

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Nickname: Frank
According to Mat(t)hias milestones : the genealogy & biographical history of Daniel Mathias, senior (a soldier of the Revolution) of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania & Stark County, Ohio by Dorothy Weiser Seale, at age 19, in 1866, Frank relocated with his parents from Blanchard Twp., Hancock County, Ohio (to where he had moved with his parents at age two from Stark County, Ohio) to Hillsdale County, Michigan.

Sometime after 1880 Frank and Margaret and their children "...headed west and settled in Fairbury, Nebraska and later moved near Hutchinson, Kansas...All of their descendants spell Mathias with one t." (p. 159)

In the 1880 Hillsdale County, Michigan Census, Frank and Janette and their four children reside in Camden Center where Frank is a hardware dealer.

By 1886, Frank resided in Nebraska according to A Portrait and Biographical Record of Putnam County, Ohio, 1896.

Jacob married Margaret Janette Alward on 5 Sep 1867 in Woodbridge, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. Margaret was born on 13 Feb 1850 in Licking, Ohio, United States; died on 6 Jun 1914 in Kansas, United States; was buried in Eastside Cemetery, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nickname: Janette
According to the 1880 Hillsdale County, Michigan Census, Janette's father was born in New Jersey and her mother was born in Vermont.

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In the 1850 Hancock County, Ohio Census, Jacob is a farmer whose Real Estate value is $2,000.00. He and his wife and children reside in Blanchard Twp. next door to his brother who is married to his wife's sister, Barbara.

In the 1860 Hancock County, Ohio Census, Jacob and Mary Ann reside in Blanchard Twp. at Macomb. Jacob is a farmer whose Real Estate value is $4,000.00 and whose Personal Estate value is $560.00.

According to A Portrai and Biographical Record of Putnam County, Ohio, 1896, page 357, Jacob was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It also states that "In 1849 Jacob moved from Starck county to Hancock county, and located on 220 acres of land in Blanchard township, where he remained until 1866, when he moved to Hillsb[sic]ale, Mich., where he died..."

In the 1880 Hillsdale County, Michigan Census, Jacob is a widowed, "retired farmer" who resides with his son, Henry, and family in Woodbridge Twp.

According to Dorothy Weiser Seale's Mat(t)hias milestones : the genealogy & biograhical history of Daniel Mathias, senior (a soldier of the Revolution) of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania & Stark County, Ohio, "In 1806, when Jacob was less than age two, he traveled overland from Westomoreland County, Pa. to Stark Co., Ohio with his parents and settled in Nimishillen Township...In 1849, Jacob and his family left Stark County and moved to Hancock County, Ohio where they located on 220 acres of land in Blanchard Township...In 1866, Jacob and Mary Ann, lured by the beautiful farming and fishing country in Michigan, moved to Hillsdale County, Michigan where they spent the remainder of their lives. Their eldest son, Jesse, preceded them to Hillsdale County in 1860. Among those who moved to Michigan with Jacob was another son, Henry H., and Jacob's brother Daniel, III..After his wife's death, Jacob lived with his son Henry H...."

His marker at West Woodbridge Cemetery in Camden Twp. states that he died at age 78 years 1 day.

Jacob married Mary Ann Stambaugh on 4 Sep 1828 in Columbania, Ohio, United States. Mary (daughter of Henry Stambaugh and Catharina Walter) was born on 1 Apr 1808 in Pennsylvania, United States; died on 1 Apr 1877 in Woodbridge, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States; was buried in West Woodbridge Cemetery, Camden, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The payment voucher that she signed for receipt of her inheritance from her father's estate stated that Mary resided in Hillsdale County, Michigan in November 1866.

In the 1870 Hillsdale County, Michigan Census, Mary, Jacob, and their family reside in Woodbridge Twp.

According to her death certificate on file with Hillsdale County, Michigan Mary died at age 69 of "congestion of the whole body". Her marker in Camden Twp.'s West Woodbridge Cemetery states "Mary A. w of Jacob d. 1 April 1877 69 years".

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The record states that "Mary Stombaugh" and "Jacob Mathias" were married by "Jacob Stombaugh" who was a "Minister of the Gospel".