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Mattie Izora Jones was born June 1880, in Faulkner County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Dockery Berry Giddens Jones and his second wife, Sarah Jane Edwards.
Mattie's mother died when Mattie was about six or seven years old. Her father then married her mother's sister, Samantha Paralee Jones, and Mattie was raised by her step-mother/aunt.
The Jones family moved to White County, Arkansas, prior to 1889. Prior to 1900 the family moved to Culpepper Township in Van Buren County, Arkansas.
The 1900 Van Buren County census shows Mattie, age 19, boarding with Jasper Newton Hardin and his wife Rebecca, in Culpepper Township.
Jasper Hardin was born February 22, 1857, in Missouri, the son of Samuel Sanford Hardin and Lucinda Jane Selby. Jasper married Rebecca E. West on April 17, 1878, in Van Buren County, Arkansas. Rebecca was born May 1850, in North Carolina, the daughter of Alexander West and Nancy Stroud. Jasper and Rebecca had no children.
The 1910 Van Buren County census shows Mattie, age 28, still boarding with Jasper and Rebecca Hardin, in Culpepper Township.
Rebecca Hardin died October 28, 1910, in Van Buren County. She is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery in Van Buren County.
Mattie married Jasper Newton Hardin on February 5, 1911, in Van Buren County. Jasper was 54 and Mattie was 31. Jasper and Mattie had no children.
Jasper died prior to 1920, in Van Buren County. He is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery in Van Buren County with his first wife, Rebecca.
We did not locate Mattie on the 1920 census.
Mattie married (second) Henry Teague on October 2, 1922, in Crawford County, Arkansas. The marriage record shows Henry Teague, 38, a resident of Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, married Mattie Harden, 40, a resident of Clinton, Van Buren County, Arkansas. (Note: We have no idea how or where the couple met.)
We know nothing about Henry Teague. The information we obtained from various records is conflicting. According to Henry's age on the marriage record, he was born about 1884. According to the age listed on the 1930 census, he was born about 1874. (Note: We located a Henry Teague, age 2 (born about 1878, in Arkansas) on the 1880 Crawford County, Arkansas census. He was listed with Jasper N. Teague and wife Adaline. We are unsure if that is our Henry Teague.)
The 1930 Conway County, Arkansas, Washington Township census shows Henry P. Tague, 56, first married at age 46, born in Mississippi, father and mother both born in Mississippi, a farmer and wife, Mattie, 49, first married at age 28, born in Arkansas, father born in Georgia and mother born in Arkansas. (The census shows Henry born in 1874).
Henry Teague died August 24, 1937, in Van Buren County, Arkansas.
Mattie married (third) Montford Monroe Teague on January 19, 1939, in Conway County, Arkansas. Montford Teague was born Sept 21, 1881, in Arkansas. (Note: We do not know if Montford and Henry were related.)
This was a second marriage for Montford Teague. He first married Mrs. Rebecca P. (Clinton) Bracken on October 2, 1904, in Van Buren County, Arkansas. Rebecca Clinton, born 1872, in Missouri, was first married to James P. Bracken in 1888, in Van Buren County. The 1910 Van Buren County census shows that Rebecca and her first husband had five children, but only two were still living in 1910. Montford and Rebecca had no children. Rebecca Teague died July 6, 1938, in Van Buren County and is buried in Pee Dee Cemetery in Van Buren County.
Mattie and Montford both died after 1940, in Van Buren County and are buried beside Montford's first wife, Rebecca, in Pee Dee Cemetery, in Van Buren County.
Mattie's half-sister, Eliza Jones McClure, named her youngest daughter Susie Izora, after Mattie.