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YELLOWSTONE COUNTY
History of Montana pg 232
Written in 1921
S
W Matlock serving his third term
of sheriff of Yellowstone County
is a
Montana pioneer, having
been a resident of Billings and
vicinity for over
twenty-one years. He has all the virile
qualities associated with the
true
westerner, is a man of
resolute purpose, and has a
reputation for utmost
reliability in the performance
of everything he undertakes.
Mr. Matlock was born near
Pattonsburg Missouri, March 7
1872. His ancestors
came from
Scotland to
the United States in colonial
times. His grandfather,
James Matlock was a
pioneer
in
Northwestern Missouri and died
in Ray County
many years ago.
Ray County Missouri,
was
a part
of the old Platte purchase,
and
the Matlocks were among the fist
to settle there. James
Matlock
father
of Sheriff Matlock was born in Ray County in 1835. He
spent most of his life
as a
farmer in Daviess County, in the
same section of Missouri, and
died
there in 1894.
He was a
democrat in political
affiliation. James Matlock
married Fredonia Gordon who was
born in
Kentucky in 1846 and is
now living
near Pattonsburg, in
Daviess County. She was the
mother
of a large family of
children, named briefly as
follows: George, a farmer at
Twin
Falls ID,
Benjamin a farmer
in Daviess Co Missouri, Mary
living with her mother, S W
Matlock,
Wood, a farmer at Ainsley Nebraska, Tillie wife of
Ed White a farmer
in Kansas, Belle who
died in
1911 at Terry, Montana, wife of
Henry Kincaid,
Leah wife of D Ingalls,
of Terry
Lizzie who is the present wife
of Henry
Kincaid, a dairyman and
farmer at Terry Montana
and Addie wife of John Way, a
farmer at Terry.
S
W Matlock grew up on his fathers
farm in Daviess County Missouri,
attended the
rural
schools and acquired a practical
knowledge of farming and cattle
feeding.
In 1888 he came
to Montana spending one season
on a ranch near Billings and
then
worked in the coal and
wood business in the City of
Billings for a year and had
many
experiences and occupations,
serving four years as
superintendent of the Big
Ditch
in Yellowstone County. For three
years
he was a member of the Billings
police force, for two years was
deputy state humane officer,
and has all the
experience and
other qualifications of the
capable and trustworthy public
office.
He served as deputy sheriff
under James Webb in 1907-08. Mr.
Matlock was elected
sheriff of
Yellowstone County in 1914, and
re-elected in 1916 and 1918.
He acquired a considerable stake
in the agricultural life of
Montana, owning a
farm of three
hundred and twenty acres at
Broadview and another of similar
acreage at Pompey’s Pillar.
Mr. Matlock who is unmarried, is
affiliated with
Billings Star
Lodge of Odd Fellows and
Billings
Camp of the Woodmen of the
World.
Politically he is a
democrat.
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