John Mathews marriage to Eliza Wooley in 1837 was most likely illegal in Tennessee. Assuming she was white (as listed in most census records), their union would not have been recognized in Oregon either. John’s sisters, Susanna and Maranda Mathews, had children from relationships with men they never formally married. Susanna’s daughter Lucy Johnson married her first cousin, Hezekiah Mathews. Letitia Carson’s granddaughter, Mary Alice Bingham, married the younger brother of her mother’s husband. Drury Mathews and Martha Carson both married spouses with Native American ancestry.
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