Frank Lloyd MATTHEWS

  General Notes:

Photo: Frank and his maternal uncle, John Hamilton Wade Matthews, were born in the same year -- 1884. The original photo bears "Photo by Winters," a photography studio, but the location is not provided.

Original photo in the collection of DeeAnna Allum Granston



1884 BIRTH of Frank Lloyd Matthews

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jefferson County, Penn Township ("Frank Mathews," age 0, with parents)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Columbia Township, Eddyville ("Frank Mathews," age 15, born "October, 1884 in Iowa," is with his parents)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Frank L. Mathews," with parents) (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Center Township, Ottumwa ("Frank L. Mathews," age 25, "Laborer, Lumber Yard," with mother Emma)

1910 MARRIAGE of Frank Lloyd Matthews and Grace Throne on November 16 in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Frank L. Matthews," age 30, "Merchant," completed 8 years of grammar school, can read and write, religious affiliation, Methodist, father born Iowa [should be Ohio], mother born Iowa)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Grace Matthews," age 30, "Bookeeper," completed 8 years of grammar school, 1 year of high school, can read and write, religious affiliation, Methodist, father born Ohio, mother born Pennsylvania)

1918 DRAFT Registration, Iowa, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Frank Lloyd Matthews," age 34, "Merchant, Throne's Grocery Co.") (signed "Matthews" with two "t's")

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Frank L. Mathews," age 35, "Grocery store, retail," with wife Grace, age 35, and daughter Betty, age 8, is in the household of Grace's parents, whose surname is documented as "Thorne" in the 1920 census)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Frank Mathews," age 40) (wife "Grace," age 40) (Grace is head of the household that includes her 74-year-old widower father Henry as a lodger, her husband, her daughter Betty and her husband Frank)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Frank L. Matthews," age 46, "Owner, grocery") (Frank,his wife Grace and their daughter "Bettie," age hare next door to Grace's father and stepmother, Henry and Virginia Throne) (wife Grace, age 46, "Saleswoman, grocery")

1955 DEATH, Frank Lloyd Matthews, at 70 years 3 months 5 days

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1981 DEATH of wife, Grace (Throne) Matthews, at approximately 96 years 9 months



DESCRIPTION (Frank): "Medium height, medium build, blue eyes, light brown hair" (World War I Draft Registration)

Frank married Grace THRONE, daughter of Henry THRONE and Clara Minerva GORSUCH, on November 16, 1910 in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa. (Grace THRONE was born on July 19, 1884 in Wapello County, Iowa and died in April 1981 in Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa.)