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CLAY ALLISON / MATTHEWS/COKER/MILLS
Posted by: MONTE PRUETT (ID *****8147) Date: September 07, 2003 at 05:44:14
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I AM RESEARCHING MY GG-GRANDMA MARTHA COKER MATHEWS MILLS SHE WAS MARRIED TO {first husband} JOHN HENCH MATHEWS THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN. JOSEPH WALLACE & SAVANNAH ALANTA "ADDIE" WERE IN THE FAMOUS PHOTO WITH CLAY ALLISON IN RATON,COLFAX COUNTY, NEW MEXICO ABT.1867. WE ARE TRYING VERY HARD TO FIND THE TRUTH IN THE STORIES THAT HAVE BEEN HANDED DOWN THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE HAVE THAT CLAY & JOHN KNEW EACH OTHER SHORTLY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR IF NOT DURING THE WAR. JOHN WAS SHOT IN THE LEFT LUNG DIED ABT.1870 AND WAS BURIED ON CLAY'S RANCH IN CIMMARON, COLFAX COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. WE DO NOT KNOW IF THIS IS RIGHT? CAN YOU PROVE THAT HE IS REALLY BURIED THERE? {"a photo would be great"} IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP PLEASE LET US KNOW.
MY GG-GRANDFATHER DAVID OBERDIRE MILLS WAS SAID TO HAVE BUILT THE COFFIN JOHN HENCH MATHEWS WAS BURIED IN THIS TOO WE CAN NOT PROVE TO BE TRUE. MARTHA & DAVID WERE MARRIED IN TRINADAD, Las Animos, COLORADO ON October 08,1871.{WE HAVE NO LIVING FAMILY MEMBERS AT THIS TIME TO TELL US ANYTHING.}
{while doing my research I have come across Lewis G. Coleman Clay's brother in law lost a baby abt.1870 that is possibly buried on Clay's ranch also}
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING THAT COULD HELP WITH MY RESEARCH PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THANK YOU


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