---------- > From: Cricket & Jerry Bixler <juliabix@netins.net> > To: MATNEY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MATNEY-L] Matney;s > Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 7:37 PM > > Carol and Dan please make sure this goes out to all the list. > > My grandmother Julia Johnson Matney was born in North Carolina. I remember > her telling me that some of the Matney's came and got the Johnson's and a > bunch of other relatives and helped them get to Webster County Mo. So I > started lookin in North Carolina. Here is what I found > > A History of Watauga County NC published in 1915 > > A Family of M. E. Church Preachers--William Matney and John Wright with > their families came fron England to America just after the close of the > Revolutionary War and settled in Virginia, near the James River, William > finally locating in Pittsylvania County, where he spent the remainder of > his life. He was a strict John Wesley type of Methodist.Two of his children > John and James are remembered yet by his North Carolina descendants, John > having married Nancy Wright, a daughter of John Wright above named, and > after a few years removed from Pittsylvania to a farm near th Moravian > Falls in Wilkes County, and, after most of his children were grown, he sold > this farm and moved to Caldwell. He had a large family of children was a > scholary man for his day, taught school, conducted religious services and > was an effective, oldtime Methodist exhorter. All of his five boys married > except one who died at fourteen, while all of his seven girls followed > their example , one of them marrying Adam Hampton, of Watauga, and the > others Caldwell and Wilkes County men. John Matney's eldest son, William > settled in Missour, John was killed at the Battle of Gettsberg, while James > and Thomas became intinerant Methodist preachers of M. E. Church. Thomas > came to Watauga County just after the close of the Civil War and James > followed in 1871, both preaching in the bounds of the Blue Ridge circuit. > James Matney organized six of the churches of this circuit, the first > having been in 1865 and in the home of Samuel Brown, the grandfather of R. > M. Brown Thomas Matney had eight boys six of whom were preachers. Two have > died and two others have gone to other states, while two still remain > members of the Blue Ridge Atlantic Conference. Thomas Matney died at > Montezuma, now in Avery County, while James Matney died at his home in > Watauga, February 28 1914, aged ninety-one years, his widow and three > children still resideing here. One son W. W. Matney, resides in Asheville. > The men of this family seem specially called to preach adn all are law > abiding citizens and friends of education, temperance and progress. > > Hope you enjoy reading this > > Cricket > > > > ==== MATNEY Mailing List ==== > MATNEY-L@rootsweb.com Welcomes all of you, Please use the list for your visiting pleasure, to seak and share family infomation . > Dan Matney wb@wvi.com is List Owner > List Web Page Keep checking for updates, and submissions . > http://www.angelfire.com/or/matney