Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
Matthews / Conner / Covey / Salts [Solt] Family History - Person Sheet
Birth Date21 Jun 1893580
Birth PlaceAppleby, Nacogdoches County, Texas
Death DateOct 1976806 Age: 83
FatherArthur Isiah “A.R.” MATTHEWS Dr. , M (1859-1943)
MotherSalvania Victory PAGE , F (1866-1900)
Spouses
Birth Date13 Feb 1898808
Birth PlaceNew York
Death Date25 Aug 1995 Age: 97
Death PlaceVentura County, California
FatherJohn Norman CHATTEY , M
MotherMary Ann TURKINGTON , F (1874-1960)
ChildrenVictoria Marion Hermine , F (1927-2008)
Notes for John Grady Page “Grady” MATTHEWS
Variations of Grady’s name
John G.
John Grady
John P
Grady
John Paige
Grady Paige
The following information has come from various eMail correspondences from John Malcolm [Grady’s grandson] - John Grady Matthews was known to me, and sis, as Papa. His wife Marion Chattey was known to us as Mama. They owned a farm in Tegucigalpa, Honduras where they had seven homes and a patch of property where they grew vegetables, raised livestock, and provided locals with employment. During the 1930's and 1940's Papa had a lumber mill and was the exclusive Hondurainian exporter of mahogany lumber to the world. He told me that Errol Flynn built his prized sailing yacht from his lumber. Might have been a yarn but who knows. Mama had a brother named Pablo, and a sister (don’t remember her name at this time) who was an English Jew who was sent to one of the German concentration camps. There she died. My sister and I share the same dad. John Barrett Malcolm Sr. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn. His birth date is 8/21/1916. Our mother, Victoria Matthews was born in San Salvador in 2/21/1927. She had a sister. Mary Matthews. Don’t remember her middle name or DOB. My Sister might remember.
From Ancestry.com’s Public Family Trees [temporary notes to be researched] - here is an entry for John Grady Page Matthews. His date of birth is given as 21 Jun 1890, but they state they are unsure of the year of birth. Also, it gives his wife’s name as Marion Chatty, born 12 Feb 1896, in New York, NY. It does not give a marriage date or any other information.
From Ancestry.com’s Public Family Trees [temporary notes to be researched] - Harold A. Parkhurst - By looking at the dates for this man, if he were related, he would most probably be a son-in-law. I found that this man was born in Kansas and is on the 1930 census with his parents, but that’s about all. He was born in 1916, which is a different date. I have also found that he has crossed the Mexican border [haven’t pulled the records yet, don’t know where he fits in].
From Ancestry.com’s Public Family Trees [temporary notes to be researched] - In the same public family file, the name Molier was also connected to Grady. I’m not sure if it was a second spouse or a daughter who had married a Molier. The entry gave no indication if it were a male or female’s record.
1900 - United States Federal Census, Precinct No. 5, Archer County, Texas
MATHEWS, Arthur head w m Feb 1860 40 wd MO TN OH physician general
MATHEWS, Ora B. daughter w f June 1885 14 s TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Sallie E. daughter w f Nov 1886 13 s TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Arthur July 1889 10 TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Joseph B. son July 1891 8 s TX MO MX
MATHEWS, John G. son June 1893 6 TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Mamie V. daughter w f Mar 1896 4 s TX MO MX547
1905 - Family moves to Archer City
1907 - Found in Loftin’s book. He was in a photo of the Presbyterian Church, Archer City, TX .548
1910, 15th of April - Archer County, Texas Census
MATHIS, Arthur R. head m w 47 m2 for 2 yrs TN MO OH physician general practice
MATHIS, Annie wife f w 22 m1 for 2 yrs TX TN IN none
MATHIS, Arther son m w 25 s TX TX TX jeweler own shop
MATHIS, Belton son m w 18 TX TX TX
MATHIS, Grady son m w 16 TX TX TX
MATHIS, Mamie daughter f w 13 s TX TX TX550
1911, February 21st -- Lodge Notes from the Dallas Morning News [Historical Archive] ....Grady Matthews, was elected as Herald. on the 20th of December....809
1917, June 5th - WWI Draft Card
1918, July 5th - There is a Grady Paige Mathews listed in the WWI Draft Records files on Ancestry.com. His date of birth is the 21st of June, 1895. He lists his place of birth as Nacogdoches County, Texas. Everything seems to fit, but the year of birth is out by two years. He gave Armstrong as his place of residence. All of the data fits this Grady Matthews, but the year of birth makes him two years older. At the time he registered, he would have only been 21 years old.
1919, February 4th -- Polytechnic (News Article)810 ....Grady Matthews of Wichita Falls is a guest of friends....
1920, Jan 29th - Border Crossing: From Mexico to U.S., 1895-1957. There is a Grady P. Matthew, who came to the US on the 29th of July in 1920. He was 26 years old, which would put his date of birth at around 1895. However, the index has his year of birth as 1882 in the index [this date is not on the actually form, so I don’t know from where this date arrived]. He said he was single, his race was English, he was a driller, and he had $50.00 in his pocket. He said he had been in the US before and that he could read and write. He was also traveling alone. His port of arrival was Laredo, Texas. There is a line on the form that i can’t really read, but it has Victoria, Texas in one field and Houston, Texas in another.
1927, Feb 21 - daughter Victoria Matthews was born in El Salvador
1935, May 26 - daughter Mary was born in El Salvador
Conversations with Matthews cousins about Grady
1950’s - Gene Cayton, a nephew of Grady's, said that he met Grady once in the mid 1950’s when he came back from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Gene said that he thought Grady returned for an operation in Texas. It was a brief meeting, Gene didn’t really remember that much about him.811
1969-1973 - [From the author] My father (Grady's nephew) never talked about our Matthews family. This was due to the problems between his parent’s who had separated many years before. But I do remember having a conversation with my mother and asking about Grady. She said he migrated to South America.
1998 - In 1998 I met Pace Conner when he was on his honeymoon in England. It was the first time we ever met. We talked about Grady and the mystery behind him. He said when Grady was young, he worked for Coffee Rice Conner. At that time in Archer’s History, Coffee Rice Conner was president of the bank during the 1920s. When the Stock Market crashed in 1929 he lost most of his land and other assets because the president of the bank [at that time] was liable for the debts of the bank. He never got over this.812 But he also said, that while all of this was going on, "there were many things going on between the Conners and the Matthews families.” He didn’t know anything other than that.
2000 - In a letter from Aunt Polly (Grady's niece) - She remembered seeing a picture of Grady’s daughters on one of her visits to her Aunt Maime. Aunt Polly also thought that Grady had come from El Salvador when she met him on that trip.
2001 - When I met with Carol Taylor in London on her family holiday (10 Aug 2001), she thought that Grady had gone to Panama.
John G.
John Grady
John P
Grady
John Paige
Grady Paige
The following information has come from various eMail correspondences from John Malcolm [Grady’s grandson] - John Grady Matthews was known to me, and sis, as Papa. His wife Marion Chattey was known to us as Mama. They owned a farm in Tegucigalpa, Honduras where they had seven homes and a patch of property where they grew vegetables, raised livestock, and provided locals with employment. During the 1930's and 1940's Papa had a lumber mill and was the exclusive Hondurainian exporter of mahogany lumber to the world. He told me that Errol Flynn built his prized sailing yacht from his lumber. Might have been a yarn but who knows. Mama had a brother named Pablo, and a sister (don’t remember her name at this time) who was an English Jew who was sent to one of the German concentration camps. There she died. My sister and I share the same dad. John Barrett Malcolm Sr. He was born in Minneapolis, Minn. His birth date is 8/21/1916. Our mother, Victoria Matthews was born in San Salvador in 2/21/1927. She had a sister. Mary Matthews. Don’t remember her middle name or DOB. My Sister might remember.
From Ancestry.com’s Public Family Trees [temporary notes to be researched] - here is an entry for John Grady Page Matthews. His date of birth is given as 21 Jun 1890, but they state they are unsure of the year of birth. Also, it gives his wife’s name as Marion Chatty, born 12 Feb 1896, in New York, NY. It does not give a marriage date or any other information.
From Ancestry.com’s Public Family Trees [temporary notes to be researched] - Harold A. Parkhurst - By looking at the dates for this man, if he were related, he would most probably be a son-in-law. I found that this man was born in Kansas and is on the 1930 census with his parents, but that’s about all. He was born in 1916, which is a different date. I have also found that he has crossed the Mexican border [haven’t pulled the records yet, don’t know where he fits in].
From Ancestry.com’s Public Family Trees [temporary notes to be researched] - In the same public family file, the name Molier was also connected to Grady. I’m not sure if it was a second spouse or a daughter who had married a Molier. The entry gave no indication if it were a male or female’s record.
1900 - United States Federal Census, Precinct No. 5, Archer County, Texas
MATHEWS, Arthur head w m Feb 1860 40 wd MO TN OH physician general
MATHEWS, Ora B. daughter w f June 1885 14 s TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Sallie E. daughter w f Nov 1886 13 s TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Arthur July 1889 10 TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Joseph B. son July 1891 8 s TX MO MX
MATHEWS, John G. son June 1893 6 TX MO MS
MATHEWS, Mamie V. daughter w f Mar 1896 4 s TX MO MX547
1905 - Family moves to Archer City
1907 - Found in Loftin’s book. He was in a photo of the Presbyterian Church, Archer City, TX .548
1910, 15th of April - Archer County, Texas Census
MATHIS, Arthur R. head m w 47 m2 for 2 yrs TN MO OH physician general practice
MATHIS, Annie wife f w 22 m1 for 2 yrs TX TN IN none
MATHIS, Arther son m w 25 s TX TX TX jeweler own shop
MATHIS, Belton son m w 18 TX TX TX
MATHIS, Grady son m w 16 TX TX TX
MATHIS, Mamie daughter f w 13 s TX TX TX550
1911, February 21st -- Lodge Notes from the Dallas Morning News [Historical Archive] ....Grady Matthews, was elected as Herald. on the 20th of December....809
1917, June 5th - WWI Draft Card
1918, July 5th - There is a Grady Paige Mathews listed in the WWI Draft Records files on Ancestry.com. His date of birth is the 21st of June, 1895. He lists his place of birth as Nacogdoches County, Texas. Everything seems to fit, but the year of birth is out by two years. He gave Armstrong as his place of residence. All of the data fits this Grady Matthews, but the year of birth makes him two years older. At the time he registered, he would have only been 21 years old.
1919, February 4th -- Polytechnic (News Article)810 ....Grady Matthews of Wichita Falls is a guest of friends....
1920, Jan 29th - Border Crossing: From Mexico to U.S., 1895-1957. There is a Grady P. Matthew, who came to the US on the 29th of July in 1920. He was 26 years old, which would put his date of birth at around 1895. However, the index has his year of birth as 1882 in the index [this date is not on the actually form, so I don’t know from where this date arrived]. He said he was single, his race was English, he was a driller, and he had $50.00 in his pocket. He said he had been in the US before and that he could read and write. He was also traveling alone. His port of arrival was Laredo, Texas. There is a line on the form that i can’t really read, but it has Victoria, Texas in one field and Houston, Texas in another.
1927, Feb 21 - daughter Victoria Matthews was born in El Salvador
1935, May 26 - daughter Mary was born in El Salvador
Conversations with Matthews cousins about Grady
1950’s - Gene Cayton, a nephew of Grady's, said that he met Grady once in the mid 1950’s when he came back from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Gene said that he thought Grady returned for an operation in Texas. It was a brief meeting, Gene didn’t really remember that much about him.811
1969-1973 - [From the author] My father (Grady's nephew) never talked about our Matthews family. This was due to the problems between his parent’s who had separated many years before. But I do remember having a conversation with my mother and asking about Grady. She said he migrated to South America.
1998 - In 1998 I met Pace Conner when he was on his honeymoon in England. It was the first time we ever met. We talked about Grady and the mystery behind him. He said when Grady was young, he worked for Coffee Rice Conner. At that time in Archer’s History, Coffee Rice Conner was president of the bank during the 1920s. When the Stock Market crashed in 1929 he lost most of his land and other assets because the president of the bank [at that time] was liable for the debts of the bank. He never got over this.812 But he also said, that while all of this was going on, "there were many things going on between the Conners and the Matthews families.” He didn’t know anything other than that.
2000 - In a letter from Aunt Polly (Grady's niece) - She remembered seeing a picture of Grady’s daughters on one of her visits to her Aunt Maime. Aunt Polly also thought that Grady had come from El Salvador when she met him on that trip.
2001 - When I met with Carol Taylor in London on her family holiday (10 Aug 2001), she thought that Grady had gone to Panama.
Notes for Marion (Spouse 1)
From Ancestry.com’s Public Family Trees [temporary notes to be researched] - Marion’s father is listed as John Karle Chatty. It says he was born in Camaguey, Cuba and was a general in the US Army. However, under “Living Matthew”, who is shown as a child Grady Matthews’, there is a man’s name - Harold Alexandre Parkhurst, It says that this man is a son of the “Living Matthews”. His dates are born 16 Feb 1945 in Sedgwick County, Kansas and d 21 May 1994 in Kansas. The entry doesn’t make sense.