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John Wesley Matson was born March 15, 1840, in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Matilda Loretta Bacon was born February 7, 1841, the daughter of James Bacon and Fidelia Rice Bacon, of Cherry Flats, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
They were married November 23, 1825, according to the records Charlestown, New Hampshire, Old Fort #4. Matilda was the youngest of 5 children: Elvina, born in Vermont in about 1831; Fidelia E., born in New Hampshire in about 1834; Horace H., also born in New Hampshire in about 1836; Charles, born in Pennsylvania between the years 1838 and 1840. According to the 1860 census, she was the only child still living with her parents, and was a school teacher.
John Wesley and Matilda were married March 29, 1864, in Troy, Bradford County, at the First Presbyterian Church, by Pastor Gordon Camachan, according to the marriage certificate we have in a little book called "Advice to a Married Couple. John and Matilda were my Great-Great Grandparents.
John and Matilda were the parents of identical twin daughters, Alla Fidelia and Anna Aurelia, born on the first day of the first month, 1865. According to the family stories we have, the twins were the first twins born in Tioga County, and people came from miles around to see the unique babies.
 When the twins were about 7, the family moved to Ohio, where John Wesley managed a lumber mill on the Cuyahoga River.
They had a younger brother, William, who was accidentally shot to death while working in Cleveland, November 4, 1887.
The twins were inseparable throughout their lives, never living far from each other. When John Wesley died in 1916, they were living in separate houses, on the same piece of property that their father was living on. Anna married Frank Hastings Fields, and Alla married Charles Homer Eggleston, son of Erastus Moses Eggleston and Sarah Elizabeth Nichols.
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