Editing Stanley Matthews (judge) (section)

==Personal life==
In 1843, Matthews married Mary Ann "Minnie" Black. They had 10 children, four of whom died during an outbreak of [[scarlet fever]] in 1859.<ref name=SCJIB17892012/> Over a three-week period, the outbreak claimed the lives of their three eldest sons (nine-year-old Morrison, six-year-old Stanley, and four-year-old Thomas) as well as younger daughter Mary (age two-and-a-half). Oldest daughter Isabella (seven at the time) and baby William Mortimer survived the devastating outbreak, although Isabella would die in 1868 at the age of sixteen. Their four younger children (Grace, Eva, Jane, and another son named Stanley, later called Paul) were born after the scarlet fever outbreak.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Przybyszewski|first=Linda|date=2017|title=Scarlet Fever, Stanley Matthews, and the Cincinnati Bible War|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jsch.12153|journal=Journal of Supreme Court History|language=en|volume=42|issue=3|pages=256–274|doi=10.1111/jsch.12153|s2cid=149056812 |issn=1540-5818|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

"Minnie" died in Washington, D.C., on January 22, 1885, at age 63.<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=January 22, 1885|title=OBITUARY. Mrs Mary A Matthews|newspaper=The Indianapolis News|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INN18850122-01.1.1|access-date=August 25, 2020|via=Hoosier State Chronicles|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109000727/https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INN18850122-01.1.1|url-status=live}}</ref> Matthews married Mary K. Theaker, widow of [[Thomas Clarke Theaker]], on June 23, 1886, in New York.<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=June 24, 1886|title=United by Marriage. Justice Stanley Matthews Taking a Wife|newspaper=The New York Times|page=5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77640600/united-by-marriage/|access-date=2021-05-13|via=Newspapers.com|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513203132/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77640600/united-by-marriage/|url-status=live}}</ref>