Posted on: Lincoln Co. Ok Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Lincoln/10304 Surname: Matthews ------------------------- I'm looking for someone who recognizes the name of John Demorest Matthews as he may be related to my Matthews family. My paternal grandmother was Rosa Matthews Hays Cunningham, who was born in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1868, married first in Chautauqua County, Kansas, To Charlie J. Hays in 1885. They had a son, Thomas Allen Hays, born in 1887 in Topeka, Kansas. Charlie J. Hays died in about 1894 and she married John Anner Cunningham (my grandfather) in September 1898 in Ardmore, Indian Territory. Rosa's brothers (Matthews, born from 1851 to 1861, were: Daniel, James Preston, J. A. (Joab or Joe), and William. Her sister was Harriett Matthews Fowler, born 1866.