Editing Mathews County, Virginia (section)

==Notable people==
[[Sally Louisa Tompkins|Captain Sally Tompkins]] was a Mathews County native. Gwynn's Island resident William B. Livermon Sr. appeared throughout the 1970s on television in religion segments as "The [[Circuit rider (religious)#Examples|Circuit Rider]]".<ref>{{cite web | title=William B. Livermon Sr., 1916-1992 | url=http://www.vaumc.org/index.cfm/fa/content.view/menuID/1507.htm | author=Callis, Rita A. | publisher=Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church | year=1992 | work=Memoirs from the 1992 Journal of the Virginia Annual Conference | access-date=April 21, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908103624/http://www.vaumc.org/index.cfm/fa/content.view/menuID/1507.htm | archive-date=September 8, 2008 }}</ref> Mathews is also home to former [[NFL]] football player [[Stuart Anderson (American football)|Stuart Anderson (football)]] of the [[Washington Redskins]] and baseball player [[Keith Atherton]] of the [[Minnesota Twins]].

Former Beatle [[John Lennon]] and his wife [[Yoko Ono]] once owned two historic waterfront estates in Mathews.