John Allen Mat(t)hews KY>MO>KS
I am looking for information aboout John Allen Mathews, who came from KY to be a blacksmith for the Senecas.He ran a trading post among the Osages in KS from 1847 til his death in 1861 at the hands of Union Soldiers.He was married to Mary Ann Williams, then her sister Sarah, daughters of William Sherley Williams.He is the grandfather of author and Osage historian John Joseph Mathews.