You wrote: James Matlock of Franklin Co., Tenn. date and location of his birth is unknown to me, died in Madison Co., Miss. about August 1836. He may have been married more than one time. His wife at the time of his death was Mary....? b. Tenn. Feb. 23, 1793, died in DeSota Co., Miss. May 4, 1858. She is buried in the Edminston Cemetery, on State Line Road, South Haven, Miss. Her son, John H. is buried beside her. DeSota Co. deed records prove that this John H. was a son of this Mary and James. I don't believe this is the wife of James Matlock that died in 1836 in Madison Co., MS. The Mary that is buried in Edminston Cemetery on State Line Road notes on her tombstone the following: ""Consort of James Matlock". In Genealogy parlance, that phase means at the time of her death, the husband was still alive. Therefore if this James Matlock died in 1836 in Madison County. This was not his wife. My thoughts are this Mary was the wife of the other James M. Matlock of Franklin County, TN (the James that was in the gun fight with Forrest). This James M. Matlock remarried a Sarah Rice on Sept. 17, 1848, as recored at the Marshall County Courthouse. Both are buried in Marshall County in the Early Grove Methodist Cemetery. Wording on the Tombstones is as follows: Matlock, S.A. died Nov 20, 1887 age 63 wife of James Matlock. Matlock, James March 17, 1818 - April 29, 1881. This date of b. on James coincides with the date of b of the James in the gun fight and who was the brother of William who died in the 1870s and of Juilian Jefferson who died in the Civil war.