Matilda Orrick

Matilda was born in 1849 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Matilda's father was James Madison Orrick and her mother was Catherine Brock.  Her paternal grandfather was Benjamin Orrick. She had seven brothers and six sisters, named Benjamin, Robinson B., John, Henry, William, Madison, Samuel, Sarah, Lydia, Virginia, Emilia, Mary and Amanda.  She was the seventh youngest of the fourteen children.