No.. I was just looking in Overton Co to see what Matlocks were there at the same time that Thomas Masters and family were there.. Edgars line would of been: Hillery Masters --Mary Davis Hillery Masters - Born ca 1758 in Montgomery Co., MD, Died ca 1813 in Overton Co., TN. He married Mary Davies on 23 Dec 1779 Rowan Co NC It is said that they had ten children. According to places of births of some of their children they left Rowan and went to Surry Co NC into TN. By a Deed I can place Hillery in Hawkins Co TN in 1794-95 Thomas Masters---Elizabeth Matlock Thomas Masters - Born 1 Aug 1787 in Montgomery Co., VA, Died 9 Jan 1849 in Morgan Co., IL. He married Elizabeth Matlock 15 Dec 1811 in Overton Co., TN and they had twelve children Squire D Masters--Lucinda Young His Biography: S. D. MASTERS, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Petersburg. Prominent among the stanch men of Menard Co., we find the name of S. D. Masters, who was born in Overton Co., Tenn., Nov. 12, 1812; he is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Matlock) Masters, who were natives of the Old Dominion; Thomas Masters emigrated to the State of Tennessee, where S. D. Masters was born; but, slavery prevailing, and he having seen enough of its workings, he resolved to go North, and, in the year 1830, went to Morgan Co., not far from what is now Jacksonville. March 6, 1833, was married to Lucy Young, who was born in Davidson Co., Tenn., Nov. 11, 1814; nine children; six lived to maturity, of whom but four are now living -- Minerva (now the wife of Rev. B. F. Vincent, now of Philadelphia), Hardin W. (attorney at law, at Petersburg), Anna M., (now the wife of N. K. Rankin); Anna and Minerva were both graduates of the Female College at Jacksonville; Wilber is now at home. Harry was drowned in the river Platte while crossing the plains in 1862; Mary died during her 28th year. In April, 1847, Mr. Masters came to this county and located in Town 19, Range 7, and has since been closely identified with the interests of the county;he is one of the self-made men of our county, having, by industry and economy, acquired a home and a competence for declining years; he has been a man of progress and enterprise. He has been a Justice of the Peace several years, and, in 1856, represented the county in the State Legislature; he and his wife for many years have been members of the M. E. Church. He has always been engaged in farming pursuits and identified with the principles of Democracy. Hardin Masters.... Emma Dexter.... Hardin Masters Biography: H. W. MASTERS, State's Attorney, Petersburg; is a native of Morgan Co., Ill., born Sept. 11, 1845; son of Squire D. and Lucinda (Young) Masters, who were pioneers of this county. He was raised upon a farm, and received his early education at a district school. In 1861 and 1862, he attended the North Sangamon Academy; after which, he attended Illinois College at Jacksonville; thence to Michigan University, where he completed a fine academical education; then taught school for several years. In 1867, he began to read law under the direction of W. McNeely; was admitted to the bar in 1868, and began the practice of his chosen profession in Garnett, Kan., and, after one year, he returned to Menard Co. and took up farming, but through his ability and popularity was, in 1872, elected to the office of State's Attorney for Menard Co., and re-elected in 1876. He married Emma J., daughter of Rev. D. Dexter, of Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 10, 1867; they have a family of three children living. There was no Lucinda Matlock.. Census with Edgar Matlock in them: 1870 MASTERS HARDIN Menard Co IL Petersburg 133 Hardin Masters 24 WM Farmer IL Emma 21 WF VT Edgar 2 WM IL Edgar Lee Masters born Aug 23 1868 Garrett KS 1880 MASTERS HW Menard Co IL Petersburg 203 H W Masters Head WM 34 M IL TN IL Lawyer Emma Wife WF 29 M VT NY MA Lee Son WM 11 S KS IL VT Madadele Dau WF 9 S IL IL VT Thomas Son WM 2 S IL IL VT 1900 MASTERS HARDIN W Fulton Co IL Lewistown 185 Hardin W Master Head WM Sept 1845 54 M 32 yrs IL TN TN Lawyer Emma Wife WF Aug 1849 50 M 4/3 NH NH NH Thomas D Son WM Sept 1877 22 S IL IL NH Lawyer Edgar Masters married Helen Jenkins June 21 1898 1900 MASTERS LEE EDGAR Cook Co IL Chicago 241 Lee Edgar Masters Head WM Aug 1868 31 M 2 yrs KS IL NY Lawyer Hellen Wife WF Aug 1874 25 M 1/1 IL MO IN Hardin Son WM Apr 1899 1 S IL KS IL by 1923 Edgar and Helen were divorced .. Edgar Lee Masters Life and Career Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, the son of Hardin Wallace Masters, a lawyer, and Emma J. Dexter. Though his father had moved the family briefly to Kansas to set up a law practice, Masters grew up in the western Illinois farmlands where his grandparents had settled in the 1820s. He was educated in the public schools in Petersburg and Lewistown (where he worked as a newspaper printer after school) and spent a year in an academy school hoping to gain admission to Knox College. Instead of entering college, he read law with his father and, after a brief stint as a bill collector in Chicago, formed a law partnership in 1893 with Kickham Scanlan. In 1914 Masters began a series of poems about his boyhood experiences in western Illinois, published (under the pseudonym Webster Ford) in Reedy's Mirror (St. Louis). This was the beginning of Spoon River Anthology (1915), the book that would make his reputation and become one of the most popular and widely known works in all of American literature. In "The Genesis of Spoon River" (American Mercury, Jan. 1933), Masters recalls how his interest turned to "combinations of my imagination drawn from the lives of the faithful and tender-hearted souls whom I had known in my youth about Concord, and wherever on Spoon River they existed." Though he would never equal the achievement or fame of Spoon River Anthology, he continued publishing poetry, novels, essays, and biographies for nearly thirty years. The amount and wide range of his production far exceeded its quality, by most accounts, and Masters's place in twentieth-century American literature is still debated Over the next ten years he expressed his Populist views in a series of essays and plays, written under the pseudonym Dexter Wallace. In 1898 he married Helen M. Jenkins, the daughter of a Chicago lawyer; they had three children. In 1903 he joined Clarence Darrow's law firm, where he defended the poor over the next eight years. Some dozen plays and books of poems during this period are undistinguished, serving mostly as political tracts and verse exercises. Extramarital affairs and an argument with Darrow unsettled his personal and professional life from 1908 to 1911, when he went into law practice on his own.