...just a stab in the dark here but, did your MATHEWS by chance marry into any HALE family or OSBURN or HOPKINS, BOLLING? Susie Murray Wilson (by way of B.J. Smothers ) wrote: > Looking for parents of John Duke MATHEWS in the 1830 census, Dallas > county. also the 1840 census, living 8 miles south of Selma. in 1840 > the name i'm looking for is John Duke MATHEWS. He would be about 9 > then. > > Thanks. > > Murray