My Genealogy Hound

HENRY MATHEWS, farmer, post office Upper St. Clair, was born Feb. 29, 1848 in Union township, this county, a son of John and Catherine Mathews, who were born in Germany, April 20, 1807, and April 15, 1813 respectively. His father came to Union township in 1837, and began farming in Baldwin township in 1853, and in 1873 he bought the farm where our subject now lives. He died April 11, 1886; his widow now resides on the South Side, Pittsburgh. Henry married, Aug. 21, 1873, Martha Kitcer, born Aug. 10, 1851, in Upper St. Clair township, a daughter of Conrod and Mary (Muth) Kitcer, who were born in Germany in 1817 and 1823, respectively. The latter died March 26, 1888. The former was a wagon-maker on the Brownsville road, and his father and mother, Henry and Margaret Kitcer, died there in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Mathews are members of the Lutheran Church at Castle Shannon. Seven children have been born to them: Anna Mary C., July 10, 1874; Harry John, Dec. 25, 1875; John Henry, Oct. 26, 1877; William Fredric, Aug. 30, 1879; Lizzie Ellamanda, Oct 22, 1881; George Edward, Dec. 12, 1886, and Henry Adam, Aug. 11, 1888. Mr. Mathews had his collar-bone broken in a runaway, but was only laid up a few days; he also barely escaped being shot, through the carelessness of a Pittsburgh gunsmith, the ball grazing his cheek.