Eliza Hackney Mallory

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, Virginia, 1783).  
 
John and Eliza likely married in Tennessee about 1837.  They had eight children: Elizabeth, Sarah, Lorana, William F., Amanda, Benjamin F., Perry, and Thomas.  The first two were born in Tennessee, the rest in Missouri.  The family lived in Missouri into the Civil War, at which time they removed to Texas. 
 
June Ferguson reports that Eliza (who was around 42 years old), her daughter Amanda (about 13 years old), and the three younger boys, traveled "after the house in which they had been living had been burned...walking at night and lying low and sleeping in the daytime...a distance of at least 300 miles through Oklahoma Indian Territory.  Ben would have been between 7 and 9....  The experience made a deep impression upon him.  He told of it many times.  The little group had to be on the lookout for any hostile Indians as well as 'Yankee' soldiers, some of whom had destroyed their home" (3).  

The biography also states that it took John a year to catch up with them in Grayson County, Texas, and that he was wounded in the war.  Records show he passed away not long after.  Eliza followed him the next year, in 1870, at the age of 50.
 
June Ferguson puts it succinctly:
 Eliza must have been a woman of courage.
 
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1840 Census, Montgomery County, Tennessee, which lists several members of the Hackney family as well as Mallorys.
Tennessee, U. S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008.
Virginia, U. S., Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1900.
Fluvanna County and Its People, B. L. Ancell, 1900, archives.org

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