Mallory Family Book

  Previously, the earliest known Mallory was identified as Anschetil, born around 1075.   This information came from Hikaru Kitabayashi in a post written in 2007 .   A blog written in 2011 and 2013 by the same author (a professor of linguistics and author of Post Norman Conquest Mallorys* ) now identifies the first Mallory in England as Geoffrey Mallore (pronounced Mallory, spelled in a variety of ways). Geoffrey, aka Goisfrid Malloret, “seems to have had his origin in Bessin in Normandy” but it is not known if he participated in the Norman conquest of 1066.   According to Kitabayashi’s 2011 post, Geoffrey was listed in the earlier Exeter Doomsday of 1086 “as the lord of Todber in co. Dorset, as tenant of William de Moyon” and possessed “the manor of Steepleton Iwerne (Werne), also of William de Moyon.”   He likely possessed other properties that cannot be identified with certainty because they were recorded only as belonging to “Geoffrey” with no last na...

  Dixie Poor Hagerth Obituary written by Deborah Hagerth Hunt

from the Oklahoma Historical Society  Lila Mallory Brewer recalled, "When we left Tap [Texas], we moved to Mangum, Oklahoma.  Dad bought a wagon yard there.  It was what we would now call a tourist camp, with small houses like present-day motels where people traveling in wagons would spend the night or sometimes rest a few days.  There was a large house we lived in and about twelve or so of the small houses.  I think I was four years old (between four and five) when we moved there." By statehood [1907], Mangum had a population of 2,672. It had two school buildings, an opera house and a county courthouse. (Wikipedia) "My memories of Mangum are quite plain.  We went to a church where there were many 'well-to-do' people.  They came to church dressed in silks and satins.  I remember middle-aged and old women sweeping into church in their finery such as we had never seen before.  Everyone wore long dresses when they were 'dressed up' to go to chur...

  Rhoda Eliza "Lila" Mallory and Dr. James F. Brewer Jr. were married in 1925 at the Sassaquin TB sanatorium where Jim worked.  This clipping was in Dot Mallory's notebook, which was dated 1923 to 1925, Dallas, Texas.    Lila c. 1925 Lila and Jim lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for most of their married life, but traveled to Tennessee, Maine,and North Carolina, Jim's home state, and Texas, where Lila was born.     Dot Mallory identified the people in this photograph as Dot Mallory (L), "possibly Wanda [?] next to Dot, Ben Brewer, Dr. James Brewer (C) & Lila With Vic [son of Leona Lucy Mallory Poor] behind him, then Lucy (R),  and their Jimmy."  Vic was born in 1933, which dates this photo to only a few years later.  The photo was located in Pinkney Poor's album, so it was likely taken in California. Sassaquin c. 1955   According to the 1940 Census, the family was living on the Sassaquin Sanatorium grounds with their two son...

Benjamin Owen Mallory was the fourth child of Benjamin Franklin Mallory and Letitia Owen Mallory.  He was born in Eddy, New Mexico, on 28 May 1891.  (Carlsbad, NM, was originally named Eddy.)   Letitia's younger brother, Conrad, "remembered visiting and being sent out in the evening to round up stock.  He was struck by the sight of a great many bats flying around and was convinced there must be caves somewhere in the area.  This was before the Carlsbad Caverns were discovered." (From June Ferguson's family history.)   Four more Mallory children were born shortly after Owen, in Texas.  He was one year old when Leon Franklin was born, two years old when Edrie Minnie was born.  He was five years old when Louis Orlando was born, and seven when Rhoda Eliza was born. According to the 1900 Census, Owen (age 9) and his older siblings all attended school for about six months, no doubt working the farm for the other six months of the year.  Leon Frankl...

Letitia Owen--Rhoda S. Eastman--Levi J. Eastman--Abel Eastman--John Eastman--Joseph Eastman--Samuel Eastman--Roger Eastman   The earliest Eastman ancestor that can be reliably traced with solid evidence at this time is Roger Eastman.  He is regarded as the progenitor of the line in the British colonies of America, and for most of those descendants with the Eastman surname in the U.S. today.  He was recorded as arriving in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, in 1638 aboard the Confidence out of Southampton.   Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by Puritans, who "established a theocratic government with the franchise limited to church members" and "zealously sought to prevent any independence of religious views, and many with differing religious beliefs...were banished" (Britannica.com).   Roger Eastman married Sarah [last name unknown] soon after his arrival, and his first child was born in 1640.  He received land in the first division of Salisbury and was ...