Mallory Family Book

I recently came across a website that traced the Mallory family paternal DNA and posted five generations of descendants from Roger Mallory b. 1632 that includes John Mallory b. abt 1733 and his children who then emigrated from Virginia and North Carolina to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri.   The sources in addition to DNA are listed on https://vioarc.com/ftm/rm/rogermallory.html and although there seems to be a little confusion over which Nancy/Nancey Mallory married Thomas Davis, their sources seem otherwise sound.   This descendancy chart is located at https://vioarc.com/ftm/rm/roger%20mallory%20outline.pdf   There is a Genealogy of the Mallorys of Virginia that traces the family back from the early generations in America (also listed in the DNA descendancy chart), and gives some interesting family history.  It also includes a coat of arms that is discussed in the appendix of that book: If these two sources (DNA website and Genealogy book) are backed ...

Born about 1817 in Kentucky to William Mallory and his first wife, the younger brother of John, George E. Mallory was married to Lurana A. Cromwell on December 30, 1834, in Logan County, Kentucky.  ( Kentucky County Marriages 1783-1964 .)   According to the 1850 Census, George's first son was born about 1836 in Kentucky.     Then, George appears on the Montgomery County, Tennessee Early Tax List Records, 1783-1965 , in 1836.  His neighbors included Fielding Hackney, Stephen Hackney, Stephen Hackney (Jr?), and David W. Hackney.     The 1850 Census also lists three more children born to George and Lurana: James W. M. Mallory was born in 1837.  Georgiana was born in 1841, and Leroy P. S. Mallory in 1843, all in Kentucky.     We know that George passed away before his father, as the will provides for "the heirs of George...deceased" and Lurana has remarried to Wright Finch (m. 1847, Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002 ). ...

Lila Mallory June Ferguson recorded in the B. F. Mallory biography, "Lila, Ben's daughter, says that Ben often told her that his mother was 'pure Castilian Spanish' and that Lila looked much like his mother" [Eliza Hackney Mallory](3). Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any Spanish in the line, paternal or maternal. According to the Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas (1889), Eliza A. M. Hackney was born in Todd County, Kentucky, and died in Texas in 1870 (566).  However, both the 1850 and 1860 Census records state that she was born in Tennessee.   The 1840 Montgomery County, Tennessee, Census hints at the Eliza A. M. Hackney (daughter) and Fielding Hackney (father) connection, as does DNA evidence reported by Gary Ferguson.   The Hackney line as far as it has been traced through Probate and other records (see below) are Fielding (b. abt 1789), son of Thomas (b. 1753), son of John (d. 1797), son of William (living in Middlesex County, Virgini...

On the 27th of August, 1784, a William Mallory of St. Thomas Parish, Orange County, Virginia, wrote his Last Will and Testament.  It was presented for probate on October 28, 1784.  In this will he names his brothers and sisters: Henry Mallory, John, Thomas, and Stephen, and James, Mary, Nancy, Sally, Dice, and Rebecca.  He appoints his father, John Mallory, as his executor, and William Sawyer as his second executor.  ( Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1852-1900 .)   In 1795, John Mallory (Senior) died, leaving probate records in Caswell County, North Caroline, of which John Mallory (Junior), Joseph Carter, and William Sawyer were administrators.  The "Goods and Chattels, Rights and Credits" of John Sr., were inventoried, and many items were sold.  Included in the inventory were 500 acres of land and three Negro slaves.  ( North Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 .)   John Mallory Junior bought items totaling 29 pou...

On the 1840 Census, William Mallory had a residence in Smith Township, Barry County, Missouri, enumerated with five children and a wife, age 40-49.  His son, John, was also in Smith Township, along with his wife (Eliza) and a young daughter (Elizabeth, 1838).   William was previously married.  I do not know her name at this time.  They had two sons: John (1815) and George E. (1817), both born in Kentucky.  She died sometime shortly after the birth of George.   William married Lucinda Taylor, nee Scott, May 1, 1820 in Christian County (Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1964).  She was previously married to William Taylor and had three children (her maiden name is on the death certificate of her daughter, Cyrene).  William Taylor died in 1819, leaving an estate that was divided between his wife and daughters.  Furthermore, William Mallory was named guardian of the underage children.  In 1821, the dower was cashed ou...

The State Historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission erected a marker near Greenfield, the county seat.  It states that the town was laid out in 1841 "on a plateau above nearby Turnback Creek."    In 1861, the residents of Townships 30 and 31 met at the Finley Mill on Turnback Creek--the location used to hold elections--to vote on which side of the Civil War they stood.  ( History of Dade County and Its People , 1917, pages 24 and 61.)  The Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas (1889) gives a short summary of John Mallory's life and states that "John Mallory was born in Virginia, but was taken to Tennessee when a boy, where he was reared and educated; subsequently he moved to Missouri in the early part of the present century [19th c.], and there lived until the breaking out of the late war, when he moved to Grayson county, Texas.  Nevertheless, he served a short time in the Confederate army, but owing to his advanced age, he return...

Dade County Missouri was organized out of Polk, Barry and Greene Counties in 1841.  According to the History of Greene County, Missouri (R. I. Holcombe, 1883), William Mallory was an early settler of Walnut Grove township, and estimated to have arrived before 1833 (149).  It would make sense for the head of the family to scout ahead and put up a homestead for his children before making the permanent move to the new location.   The History of Dade County and Her People (A. J. Young, 1917) states that the first entries of Township 30 Range 26 included William Mallory (932).  The 1840 Census enumerates William and John Mallory in Smith Township, Barry County, Missouri, but it should be noted that the change of location for the Mallory family to Dade County in 1850 was more than likely a change of boundaries rather than an actual move.    This same History states that John Mallory settled near Antioch church in South Township (157).  The Antioch c...

 The 1850 Dade County Missouri Census is a good place to start investigating the Mallory family tree. William, dwelling 498, and his sons, John (476) and Perkin (500), are enumerated with their families, as is William's daughter, Lucy Ann, married to Nester McDonal (475).   The birthplaces of these family members is a map of their progress across the frontier.  Working backward: Lucy Ann's son is the youngest of the clan at 7/12 months, born in Missouri within the year.  The oldest Mallory born in Missouri is John's daughter, Souza, age 6, born 1844.  Previous to living in Missouri, the family resided in Tennessee.  John's wife, Eliza, and Perkin's wife, Margaret, were both born in Tennessee, so presumably they married there.  John's daughters, Elizabeth, age 12, and Sarah, age 10, were also born in Tennessee, in approximately 1838 and 1840.  Thus, the Mallorys left Tennessee and arrived in Missouri between 1840 and 1844. The youngest of Will...