Ida Estelle Corbett Mathews was born on September 8, 1860, the daughter of Charles C. Corbett and Zilphia Crowningshield, natives of Vermont. Charles Corbett, a stone cutter and funeral director, moved his family to the area now known as Baker County about 1880 and became the first known county undertaker, engraving many of the county's older grave markers and hand recording funeral records. In 1890, Ida Estelle married Frank H. Matthews, the son of James Bosworth Mathews, originally of New York, and his French Canadian wife Margaret Newman. Frank Matthews had previously worked in the newspaper business in Chicago, and after moving his family to Baker County he became editor of the county's only newspaper, The Baker County Standard. Ida Estelle and Frank Matthews had a son, Frank Maynard, who died in the 1918 flu epidemic, and a daughter, Ida Mae Padgett, born in 1893, who grew up in Baker County under her strict mother. As a young girl, Ida Mae was one of three employees in the old Baker County State Bank, which eventually folded, and she later became the first health registration officer in Baker County. After Frank's death she married her first cousin, Cecil M. Corbett. After her father's death, Ida Estelle Matthews took over his business as the county funeral director, selling caskets and recording some of the county's first death records. She inherited all the west half of Lot 27 in Macclenny and the original Corbett family home built on the corner of Sixth Street and Macclenny Avenue, which still stood in 2005. After her death in 1932, the land and home passed to her daughter Ida Mae, who had married Barney Padgett, the first principal of the Macclenny School and coach of the first basketball team.