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James Thomas "J.T", Mattingly (male)

Birth: 19 OCT 1836 Londonderry Twp, Bedford, Pennsylvania

Death: 17 JUL 1912 Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland

Spouse: Ann Teresa Donahue
(Family Record)
Children:
Rose Ellen Mattingly
Emma Jane Mattingly
Mary Frances Mattingly
Bernard Augustine Mattingly
Alphonsus Mattingly
Spouse: Rosalia Topper
(Family Record)
Children:
Anna Catherine Mattingly
Margaret Mattingly
Henry Thomas Mattingly
Elizabeth Mattingly
Agnes Mathilda Mattingly
James Edward Mattingly
John Joseph Mattingly
Helena Mattingly
Francis DeSales Mattingly
Michael J. Mattingly

Father: James Mattingly
Mother: Ann Albright

Burial: 19 JUL 1912 Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland

Occupation: Proprietor of Store & Meat Market

Very few families in Bedford county can trace their settlement back farther in the early history than the Mattinglys, they have come from England with Lord Baltimore, who settled in Maryland. In 1830 James Mattingly emigrated to Bedford County from Allegany county, Maryland and settled in Londonderry Township, on 90 acres of land known as the Myers tract, which was only slightly improved and he was the first in his immediate family who settled in Bedford county of whom we have any record. At this time, Mr. Mattigly possessed but little of this world's goods, he not having sufficiect funds to pay for the small farm he purchased, notwithstanding the fact that the purchase price would now be considered an insignificant amount. It is said that fortune favors the brave, but in this uninviting field it not only required a courageous spirit, but indomitable will, pluck, perseverance, and industry, coupled with good business management, to accomplish what Mr. Mattingly did, surrounded as he was by many discouragements which to a man possessed of less hopefulness would have appeared unsurmountable. By persistent industry in farming and also mercantile business , for fifteen years, he not only liquidated the idebtedness in hisfirst purchase, but subsequently added to his small farm until he possessed seven hundred acres. He and his wife Ann became the parents of fifteen children, fourteen who survive and as fast as they reached manhood and womanhood's estate, he presented each son with fifteen hundred dollars and each daughter with one thousand dollars with which to purchase a farm and he extended to them his credit farm the balance of the purchase money. he still survives at the advanced age of seventy-nine and pays taxes to the amount of two hundred and fifty-seven dollars. Mrs. Mattingly is now in her seventy-fifth year. Of their children, William, Christopher, Samuel, Vincent and Anastia are residents of Muskingum county, Ohio; Francis, Peter and Jerome J. live in Illinois; John Baptist, a lay brother in the Catholic church resides in WhiteMarsh near Baltimore; Catherine is a sister of Charity at New Mount Hope, near Baltimore, and is known as Sister Mary Francis ; J.T. and Henry E. reside on a portion of the old homestead; Rose A. lives in Allegany county, Maryland; Margaret E. resides in her native county. All are married except John Baptist and Catherine, J.T. Mattingly, the subject of this sketch, was born in Londonderry Township of this (Bedford) county in 1836, and had adopted farming as his vocation. He was married January 19, 1860 to Ann T, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Donahee, by whom he hed five children, viz., Rose E. who is married and lives in Allegany county, Maryland; Emma J. and Mary F. Bernard A. and Alphonsus L. Mrs. Mattingly died October 7, 1870 aged 28 years. April 23, 1972, he married Rosalie, daughter of Peter A. and Mary A. Topper of Somerset County, Pennsylvania and they are the parents of four children--Ann C., Margaret, Henry T. and Agnes M. Mr. Mattingly has been successful in accumulating a handsome competency, and aside from the farm has puchased from his father , he purchased another two hundred two hundred and thirty acres which he purchased at Mount Savage which he disposed of to his son-in-law Joseph Mason, on the same plan adapoted by his father. He also possesses a fine block in Cumberland, Maryland. The first thousand dollars he accumulated (part of which he earned wagoning on the National pike to Baltimore) was used in procuroing two substitutes for the late war. Mr. Mattingly has always interested himself in enterprises of a public nature, productive of good to the general public. The Mattinglys are about the only Catholics in this section of the county, and attend church at Cumberland, nine miles distant. Mr. J.T. Mattingly is frequently visited by a priest, who occasionally holds mass in his home, he having all the necessay appurtenances to perform this religious ceremony--a very rare thing in this country. Source: History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co. P. 370.