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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Theodore Spencer Case was born in Jackson, Georgia, and his family later moved to the Columbus, Ohio area. After graduating from Marietta College, he taught mathematics for several years and studied at Starling Medical College in 1853. He arrived in Kansas City in 1857, where he practiced medicine until 1861. At the start of the Civil War, Case enlisted in the Union army as a private. After the war, in 1866, he resigned as Quartermaster General of Missouri, ranked as a colonel. In 1869, Theodore Case and his brother, Oliver, established a wagon and implement manufacturing business at First and Wyandotte Streets. Case married Julia McCoy Lykins in 1858, and they had six children, only three of whom survived childhood. Julia Case died in 1872, and in 1874, Theodore Case married Fidelia O. Wright, who survived him until 1910. Case was a prominent, influential citizen, active in a variety of civic affairs and a member of the First Baptist Church of Kansas City. (Source: Western Historical Manuscript Collection- Kansas City).
Theodore Spencer Case was a physician and businessman, a native of Georgia. He arrived in Kansas City, Missouri in 1857, serving in 1860-1861 as "editor of the Medical Review of Kansas City", and as a Union officer in the Civil War. He was later involved in various affairs, including real estate, teaching medicine and chemistry, writing and editing local scientific publications. He aided his brother Oliver Case in a wagon manufacturing business. He also served as City Treasurer and Postmaster in Kansas City. (Source: Kansas City Public Library).
John Thomas Ball went to Texas with his parents when he was a boy. He remembered Yankee soldiers, during the Civil War, passing his home in Virginia while his father was in the Confederate Army.
"Tom" helped establish the cattle industry in West Texas. At his death in 1937 he owned cattle ranches in Stephens, Nolan, and Fisher Counties, TX.