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==Death and legacy== Matthews's health declined precipitously during 1888; he died in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 1889.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77641373/the-dead-justice/| author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->| title=The Dead Justice.; Funeral Services Of Stanley Matthews In Washington| date=March 26, 1889| newspaper=The New York Times| page=1| 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/77641373/the-dead-justice/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18890323.2.44&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1| author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->| title=Stanley Matthews. A Member of the Supreme Court Bench Dead. An Able Jurist And Judge.| date=March 23, 1889| newspaper=Los Angeles Herald| access-date=June 29, 2019| via=California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside| archive-date=January 29, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129084705/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18890323.2.44&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1| url-status=live}}</ref> He was survived by second wife Mary, as well as five of his children with Minnie: Mortimer, Grace, Eva, Jane, and Paul.<ref>{{Cite news|date=March 23, 1889|title=Justice Matthews Dead|page=2|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref> He is interred at [[Spring Grove Cemetery]] in Cincinnati, Ohio.<ref name="Christensen">{{cite web |url=http://www.supremecourthistory.org/04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_e.html |title=Christensen, George A. (1983) ''Here Lies the Supreme Court: Gravesites of the Justices'', Yearbook |access-date=November 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050903032026/http://www.supremecourthistory.org/04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_e.html |archive-date=September 3, 2005 }} [[Supreme Court Historical Society]].</ref><ref>Christensen, George A., "Here Lies the Supreme Court: Revisited", ''Journal of Supreme Court History'', Volume 33 Issue 1, Pages 17β41 (February 2008), [[University of Alabama]].</ref> Daughter Jane Matthews married her late father's colleague on the Court, Associate Justice [[Horace Gray]], on June 4, 1889.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Massachusetts.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100325182|title=Proceedings of the bar and of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in memory of Horace Gray, January 17, 1903.|last2=Bar Association of the City of Boston.|date=1903|publisher=[s.n.]|location=Boston|pages=10|access-date=October 11, 2020|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109000705/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100325182|url-status=live}}</ref> Daughter Eva Lee Matthews became a schoolteacher and monastic, founding the Community of the Transfiguration, which engaged in charity work in Ohio, Hawaii and in China, leading to her liturgical commemoration in the Episcopal Church.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/eva_lee_matthews.html|title=Eva Lee Matthews|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=July 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706190214/http://satucket.com/lectionary/eva_lee_matthews.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Son [[Paul Matthews (bishop)|Paul Clement]] was bishop of the [[Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey]] from 1915 to 1937. His son, Justice Matthews's grandson, [[T. S. Matthews|Thomas Stanley]], was editor of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine from 1949 to 1953.<ref name="princeton">{{cite web|title=T. S. Matthews Papers 1910-1991|url=http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C1131|access-date=September 15, 2013|publisher=Princeton University|archive-date=December 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208222218/http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C1131|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nytobit">{{Cite news|last=Foderaro|first=Lisa W.|date=January 6, 1991|title=T. S. Matthews, 89, Ex-Editor of Time and Author|newspaper=The New York Times|page=22|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/06/obituaries/ts-matthews-89-ex-editor-of-time-and-author.html|access-date=2021-05-13|archive-date=October 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008214059/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/06/obituaries/ts-matthews-89-ex-editor-of-time-and-author.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A collection of Justice Matthews's correspondence and other papers is located at the [[Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center]] library in [[Fremont, Ohio]] and open for research. Additional papers and collections are at: [[Cincinnati Historical Society]], Cincinnati, Ohio; [[Library of Congress]], Manuscript and Prints & Photographs Divisions, [[Washington, D.C.]]; [[Ohio Historical Society]], [[Columbus, Ohio]]; [[Pierpont Morgan Library]], [[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]]; [[State Historical Society of Wisconsin]], Archives Division, [[Madison, Wisconsin]]; and [[Mississippi State Department of Archives and History]], [[Jackson, Mississippi]].<ref>[http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/Courts/supreme/judges/matthews/sm-lop.html Location of papers, Sixth Circuit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119025929/http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/Courts/supreme/judges/matthews/sm-lop.html |date=2009-01-19 }} [[United States Court of Appeals]].</ref>
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