BIOGRAPHY: Source --- "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840", Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, 1914 (Evangelical Publishing House) pg 540

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Ozias Mather of East Haddam, son of Dr. Augustus Mather, married, in 1808, Harriet Brainard. She was the only daughter of Deacon Jabez Brainard, the revolutionary soldier, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. She was also the sister of Nathan Brainard, the pioneer.

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Mather died in 1813, in Washington, N.H., and Harriet Brainard Mather was left a widow with two little sons, one of them an infant born the year his father died.

BIOGRAPHY: She married, secondly, Edm?nd Lawrence of Groton, Mass., and in 1853, while on a visit with Cleveland relatives, she died, aged 63 years, and was buried in Erie St. cemetery. Mr. Lawrence survived her but a year, his death occurring in West Danvers, Mass. Her children were:

BIOGRAPHY: Henry Brainard Mather, b.1809; married, 1840, Ellen Everett, daughter of Charles Everett. Henry B. Mather died in Boston, Mass., in 1884.
Samuel Holmes Mather, b.1813; m. Emily Washington Gregory.

1. 2. Henry Brainard MATHER   b. 1809, ,, New Hampshire; d. 1884, Boston,, Massachusetts.
2. 3. Samuel Holmes MATHER   b. 1813, ,, New Hampshire; d. 14 Jan 1894, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

Came to Cleveland in 1835

OBIT: Name: Mather, Samuel Holmes
Date: January 16, 1894
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #055.
Notes: Mather- Entered into rest, on Sunday morning, January 14, Samuel Holmes Mather, in the 81st year of his age. Funeral services at the family residence, No. Prospect st. on Tuesday at 2 o'clock p. m., standard time. Burial private. 1813-1894. Lakeview Cem. Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 4. Frederick Gregory MATHER   b. 1844, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 5. Charles Henry MATHER   b. Abt 1845; d. Feb 1847, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 6. Ellen Augusta MATHER   b. 1847, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

OBIT: Name: Mather, Charles Henry
Date: Feb. 10, 1847
Source: Cleveland Herald; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #055.
Notes: Mather- Last evening, 11th, very suddenly, Charles Henry, son of Samuel H. and Emily W. Mather, aged 15 months.