Good Morning Fellow Lewis County Listers >From time to time I am going to put a tidbit on to get this list moving. Regards Pat R Here is a short Bio: This one is on Kilts Mathew of the Town of Lewis, New York Kilts, Mathew, PO West Leyden, merchant and farmer. 45 acres, born in Ava, Oneida County on May 20, 1833 to Jacob Kilts and Elizabeth Zolver Kilts. His father was a native of Germany where he was a cabinet maker and settled in Boonville, Oneida County after he arrived in 1828. Later Jacob Sr was one of the first settlers of Ava NY where he obtained 120 Acres of land and started farming. Jacob Sr and Elizabeth had 6 children, Mathew, Homer, William (a hotelkeeper in Redfield NY), Jacob Jr., Warren R, Emma J. who married Byron Edgeton and Carrie who married Frank Lock. Mathew settled in Lewis County in 1859. He has been a supervisor, collector and commissioner of highways. His wife was Julia J Pease, the daughter of Charles Pease B. 6/11/1804 in West Leyden,son of Major Alpheus Pease (Rev War Veteran) and his 2nd wife Dorothy Spencer (daughter of Jonathan Spencer) whom he married in 1801in Somers Ct.. Major Pease was one of the early settlers of Leyden (now Lewis) who settled there in 1803 from Somers CT. Charles Pease M in 1831 his 2nd wife Julia Preston of Leyden. Mathew Kilts and Julia Pease Kilts had 3 children: C, Arthur Kilts, Mattie L. Kilts and Beatrice L. Kilts. Sources: History of Lewis County 1805-1883 Descendants of John Pease Our Country and Its People by Wagner