Person:Matthew Houston (3)

Watchers
Rev. Matthew Houston
d.18 Mar 1853 Hamilton County, Ohio
m. 1758
  1. Esther HoustonAbt 1758 - Bef 1796
  2. John HoustonAbt 1759 - Abt 1835
  3. Samuel HoustonBet 1760 & 1774 - 1834
  4. Robert D. HoustonAft 1760 -
  5. James Houston1763 - 1810
  6. Rev. Matthew Houston1769 - 1853
  7. Margaret 'Peggy' HoustonAbt 1775 - Bef 1815
m. 19 Sep 1797
  1. Andrew Cloyd Houston1797 - 1844
  2. Romaine Finley Houston1799 - 1888
Facts and Events
Name Rev. Matthew Houston
Gender Male
Birth? 25 Dec 1769 Augusta County, Virginia
Alt Marriage 21 Aug 1794 Rockbridge County, Virginiato Margaret "Peggy" Cloyd
Marriage 19 Sep 1797 Rockbridge County, Virginiato Margaret "Peggy" Cloyd
Death? 18 Mar 1853 Hamilton County, Ohio
References
  1.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
  2.   Geneanet Community Trees Index.

    Name: Matthew Houston
    Gender: M (Male)
    Father: Matthew Houston
    Mother: Martha Lyle
    Spouse: Margaret Cloyd

  3.   United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432).

    Name: Matthew Hueston
    Gender: Male
    Race: White
    Age: 80
    Birth Year: abt 1770
    Birthplace: Virginia
    Home in 1850: Turtle Creek, Warren, Ohio, USA
    Occupation: Minister
    Industry: Welfare and Religious Services
    Line Number: 23
    Dwelling Number: 2428
    Family Number: 2429
    Household Members (Name) Age
    Matthew Hueston 80

  4.   Lyle, Oscar K. Lyle family : the ancestry and posterity of Matthew John, Daniel and Samuel Lyle, pioneer settlers in Virginia. (New York: Lecouver Press, 1912)
    pg. 189.

    1787. Matthew Houston, ex 1578, Clergyman. Lived Union Village, Ohio, b. 1769, d. 1853, m. abt. 1797, Margaret Cloyd, b. 1774, d. 1862, Issue 2: Andrew C. Houston, b. 1798, 1844; Romaine Finley Houston, b. 1802, d. 1888; m. 1831, Mary E.L. Patterson, b. 1806, d. 1852, dau. [of] James Patterson..

  5.   Find A Grave.

    Mathew Houston
    BIRTH
    25 Dec 1769
    DEATH
    18 Mar 1853 (aged 83)
    Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
    BURIAL
    Shaker Cemetery
    Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70283619/mathew-houston

  6.   Houston, Samuel Rutherford. Brief biographical accounts of many members of the Houston family: accompanied by a genealogical table; from well authenticated records and an extensive correspondence, with a large number of well informed members of the family during the years 1876-1882. (Cincinnati: Elm Street Print. Co., 1882)
    pg. 279-280.

    D. 4. Matthew Houston (No. 4, p. 233), the fourth child of Matthew Houston and Martha Lyle, married Margaret Cloyd, a sister of Matthew Houston's wife, of Rockbridge Co., Va.
    They had two children, viz.:
    1. Archibald Houston
    2. Romaine Houston

    He studied theology and preached as a Presbyterian minister until he was thirty years of age, very animated and quite popular as a pulpit speaker, during the "great revival" in Kentucky and Tennessee in 1808 (vide, p. 26), his sensitive, impulsive nature yielded too far to the extraordinary excitement of the times. He and another Presbyterian minister (Rev. ___ Rankin) connected themselves with that strange sect denominated "Shaking Quakers" (more commonly "Shakers"). He, with his wife and two sons, went and connected themselves with those of persuasion who lived near Lebanon, Ohio, where the writer visited them in 1828-'29. They all received him very kindly, and tried to draw him over to "Shakerism". He was presented on leaving with a book containing an exposition of their sentiments and practice, with the request that I should read it carefully and then write what I thought of it. The sect originated in 1774 in America. Anna Lee, as the head, "The Elect Lady", "the woman spoken of in Revelation xii", had "the gift of tongues", "conversed with the dead, who only understood her tongues." ...

    The writer read the book which they gave him and wrote to them that if their sacred volume was inspired at all it was surely not done by the Holy Spirit, "who moved the holy men of old."

    I was learned rather recently (1878) that M. Houston abandoned all his errors and returned to the "creed of his fathers."

    One of his sons did the same in the twenty-sixth year of his age - then lived for a time in East Tennessee, and afterwards went West, vide Appendix F.

    Matthew Houston lived to be a very old man, and was probably the last of the children of his parents who departed this life. The writer is sorry he has been unable to learn anything of the closing period of his life.