Samuel Houston Mateer

1826 - 1879  (53 years)

• Name	Samuel Houston Mateer
  Born	19 Jun 1826	, York, Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Nov 1879	Rural Springs, Kingman, Kansas
  Person ID	I7482	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2001

  
  

  Father	John Mateer,   b. 15 Oct 1794, , Cumberland, Pennsylvania ,   d. 21 Aug 1863, , Morrow, Ohio  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Jane Porter,   b. 12 Nov 1801, Monaghan Twp., York, Pennsylvania ,   d. 14 Sep 1862, , Morrow, Ohio  (Age 60 years)
  Married	28 Mar 1820	, Cumberland, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F2820	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Caroline Johnson,   b. 29 Jun 1833, , Virginia ,   d. 19 Jan 1917, Penalosa, Kingman, Kansas  (Age 83 years)
  Married	14 Oct 1852	, Delaware, Ohio
  Children	1. Florence Cecelia Mateer   2. Jeanette Olive Mateer,   b. Abt 1859   3. Charles Mateer   4. Alice Belle Mateer,   b. Abt 1860, , Ohio   5. Edward Creigh Mateer,   b. 20 Mar 1868, , Illinois   6. Wilbur Nelson Mateer,   b. 28 Aug 1870, , Illinois
  Family ID	F2823	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  During the Civil War Samuel H. Mateer enlisted at Ashley, Ohio, on 13 Aug. 1862 as a private in Company D 121st Reg't Ohio Volunteers, transferred on 10 March 1863 to 4th Battalion Pioneer Corps, on 30 June 1864 to Co. F 1st U. S. Veteran Volunteers, where he was a corporal when mustered out on 27 June 1865 at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Samuel Huston Mateer was a blacksmith and inventor of a plow. He and his wife lived in Illinois for a time en route to Kansas. ---------- Reference: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 100.