Jessie Catherine (Lathrop) Mattox, daughter of, Harrison Benjamin and Barbara Elizabeth (Bellenger) Lathrop.

Jessie Catherine Lathrop siblings are:

Jesse Catherine Lathrop b. 1879
Peter I. Lathrop b. 1880
Helen L. Lathrop b. 1882
William Eugene Lathrop b. 1883
Mary M. Lathrop b. 1885
Samuel Forrest Lathrop b. 1886
Emma Lathrop b. 1888
Margaret V. Lathrop b. 1890
Jane Lathrop b. 1892
Otelia Louise Byram b. 1893
Lyman G. Lathrop b. 1895
Thomas Harrison Lathrop b. 1902

Jessie Catherine Lathrop married Robert Elkanah Mattox on June 9, 1897 in Hardin Co., Iowa.

Jessie Catherin Lathrop and Robert Elkanah Mattox children are:

Sedalia Ann Mattox b. 10 Oct 1898 Robertson, Hardin Co., Iowa
Rueben A. Mattox b: 7 Oct 1900 in Marshalltown, Marshall Co., Iowa
Leo Mattox b: 28 Sep 1903
Harold Mattox b: 11 Sep 1907 in Custer Co. South Dakota
Hazel Irene Mattox b: 23 Oct 1909 in Custer South Dakota
Glenn Mattox b: 28 Mar 1916 in Custer, Custer Co. South
Dakota

Below are the funeral notes of Rev. WW Hiller of Custer Community Church in Custer, SD for Jessie Mattox.

Longtime Custer County resident Jessie Mattox passed away in a retirement home in Rapid City, May 11, (1972), following a short illness. Jessie Mattox came to Custer with her family in March 1909, and settled on a Homestead southeast of Custer where the family resided. She was passed in death by her husband (Robert) on December 29, 1918. Following his death, the family moved to the present home site where they have lived since early 1919.
Jessie Catherine Lathrop was born at Abbot, Iowa August 24, 1879. She was married to Robert Elkanah Mattox June 9, 1897, and lived on a farm near Abbot, Iowa, until moving to South Dakota. She is survived by four sons; Reuben of the home here in Custer, Leo of Pringle, SD, Harold of Rapid City, SD, and Glenn of Seattle, WA.; two daughters; Hazel Forum of Eagle Point, Oregon and Sedalia Allen of Frederick, Colorado; 22 grandchildren, 21 great grand-children and 7 great-great grandchildren, three sisters and one brother.
These notes were written in long hand and were attached to her obituary in the archives of Custer Community Church. At the bottom of the note there is a notation; 2 more great grandchildren.


Family Information contributed by family member:

Carol Lovitt and Yvette E. Aune