Carl Kendall MATTHEWS

  General Notes:

1896 BIRTH of Carl Matthews ("Butch")

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Columbia Township, Eddyville ("Carl Mathews," age 3, born "June, 1896 in Iowa," is with his parents)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Wapello County, Center Township, Ottumwa ("Carl K. Mathews," with parents) (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Center Township, Ottumwa ("Carl K. Mathews," age 13, with mother Emma)

1915 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jefferson County, Fairfield Township, Fairfield ("Carl Matthews," age 19, single, born in Iowa, 8 years common school, can read and write, father born Ohio, mother born Iowa)

1917 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Iowa, Jefferson County, Fairfield Township, Fairfield ("Carl Matthews," age 21, single, born "June 5, 1896 in Marengo, Iowa," occupation "Laborer, Louden Mfg. Co., Fairfield, Iowa") (signed "Carl Matthews," with two "t's) (Description: "Medium height, medium build, brown eyes, brown hair")

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines ("Carl Matthews," age 31, "Shoemaker, Shoe Shop," is "son-in-law" in the household of "W. W. Luke" and his wife Emma; Carl's own wife "Hessie," age 30, is in the household, along with their son "Carl, Jr., age 1")

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jefferson County, Fairfield Township, Fairfield ("Carl Mathews," age 28") (wife "Hessie," age 26) (The ages of Carl and Hessie in the 1925 Iowa State Census are incorrect.)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Jefferson County, Fairfield Township, Fairfield ("

1942 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Illinois, La Salle County, Ottawa ("Carl Kendall Matthews," age 45, born "June 5, 1896 in New Sharon, Iowa," employed by "J. E. Porter Corpration, Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois," wife "Mrs. Hessie Matthews") (Description: 5' 10" tall, 165 lbs., brown eyes, brown hair, ruddy complexion")

Carl married Hessie Edna LUKE, daughter of Willis W. LUKE and Emma Ellen FRAZEE. (Hessie Edna LUKE was born in March 1899 in Iowa and died in June 1978.)