Amy Mathey

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106773057/amy-matheys

Amy Zell Matheys, married to the PA. State Sen./ Capt. of the 1st Montgomery lived in several places. In the City of Phila. and out in Montgomery County at Norriton. After Amy's husband died the family sold the Norriton farm and moved back to the City. (The late 1830s were a time of economic depression/recession)

She has a considerable Quaker heritage in her ancestry. Notably the <Levering> line and John Williams, Jr. of Wales

note the Levering and Zell residences in Roxboro in 1843: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/zoom/11764

As a widow, she sold the 100+ acres in Norriton where she and her husband had been living for while and moved back to the city. This is where her husband had property so she returned to the familiar Spring Garden section after his death. The 1857 map of Montg. Co. shows a J. Mathey on it but by then both husband and son , John and John Jr.. had been dead for quite a while... So, inclusion in 1857 is confusing (if it's a match!)

Norriton is the community where the William Bean /Mary Weber couple had lived, raising the son Jesse Weber Bean who married their daughter Elizabeth "Eliza" (Matheys) Bean. They evidently met each other during school days in Norriton,, this according to one of Jesse Weber Bean's letters.

Eliza was the only one of her daughters to marry. The remaining sons, (John Jr. dying young), did not live in Norriton in later life. Another son, David, eventually moved away to Maryland. William Z. died in PA having been a clerk in Philadelphia.

The son David Matheys gave rise to a notable business exec., famous for leading the Rouse Co. at the end of the 20th century (Maryland based). see Private

background of her Baptist church in Merion

many of the highlighted names are her family:

"The Baptist Church is located at the intersection of the Gulf and Roberts roads, and about a half a mile to the north of Bryn Mawr. It is a two-story stone building, erected in 1809, to which a small addition has been made since 1858. It is in a retired situation, surrounded by aged chestnuts and oaks, trees of the original forest. The graveyard comprises nearly two acres of ground and is neatly kept. There are numerous handsome white marble tombstones here, on which we find the surnames of Clare, Preston, Restine, Hagy, Hibbard, Foreman, Levering, Righter, Blankley, Williamson, Jones, Young, Llewellyn, Smith, Morris, Shubert, McClenachan, Taylor, Bailey, Shoester, Curwin, Ewing, Elmer, Davis, Johnston, Barrett, Stewart, Sheaff, Sturges, Baldwin, Humphreys, Evans, Lee, Suplee, Butler, Stanley, Marshall, Yocum, Bauman, Gore, Migs, Edwards, Casidy, Scott, Latch, Roberts, Thomas, Shaw, Horn, Bevan, Owens, Wilson, McBride, Praul, Burns, Hoyle, Williamson, Zell, Haley, Gaskill, Litzenberg, Rogers, Wrigley, Moore, Nagle, Crawford, Kenzie, Fretz, Coulter, Miller, Pyatt, Matheys, Pechan, Stedman, Armstrong, Castncr, Pawling, Dick and Ripley. Several members of the Gaskill family are buried here, being the descendants of Peter Gaskill, who married Christiana Gulielma, the daughter of William Penn, Jr., son of the founder of Pennsylvania by his first wife. The congregation was organized and the church founded chiefly through the exertions of its first pastor, Rev. Horatio Gates Jones, D.D)., who entered in charge for the long period of forty-four years, or until his death, which took place at his residence in Roxborough, December 12, 1853, aged seventy-seven years. In 1858 the Rev. Mr. Anderson had charge. The present pastor is Rev. William Wiley, who has also services in a chapel on Lancaster Avenue. Before the erection of the church the congregation worshiped in a small building near by, which had originally been a school-house, but some time since demolished." http://lowermerionhistory.org/?page_id=221 taken from: William J. Buck, edited by ''Theodore W. Bean; Everts & Peck, Philadelphia (1884)

Her mother, born Elizabeth Roberts, and her father, David Zell were both Friends: We can find many of those relations at the Merion Friends Burial Ground' reference Amy's mother Elizabetn née Roberts: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128084465/elizabeth-zell

public transportation in her neighborhood: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/45445

Callowhill during her time: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/2568

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/zoom/65453