Mallory Family Activites 1840-1860 in Dade County Missouri


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 church was organized in 1844.  The History describes the church: "It was a log structure with an old fashioned fire place on one side" (62) and "The first meeting house was constructed out of logs and it had a huge fireplace on one side of the room that gave it the necessary heat in winter for the comfort of the people" (137).  It goes on to name the members of the community, including "the Stampers, Saters, the Willises, the Gambles, the Mallorys, and the Funks" and that "all these families have much to do in the making of the early history of that portion of Dade County" (137).  The heads of families are further identified as Rich T. Willis [preacher at Antioch Church], John Gamble, and William Mallory (932).

 

 

 A cholera pandemic ravaged the world in the years from 1846 to 1860, killing millions of people.  It hit Missouri in 1849.  The Mallory family were presumably among those affected.

William Mallory died in 1851.  R. T. Willis acted as administer of the estate and, there being $357.63 on hand to pay any outstanding debts but no expenses claimed, the court ordered "that the same be distributed as follows, towit, To the unknown heirs of George E. Mallory, deceased, the sum of seventy one dollars...To John Mallory seventy one dollars...To Richard G. Clopton as curator of James P. and Serena E. Clopton, fifty nine dollars...To Wm P. Mallory the sum of fifty nine dollars...And pay R. G. Clopton as security of Constantine Mallory, dec'd six dollars...To Rufus Cates three dollars...and to Wm P. Mallory twenty five dollars...these last two items are debts due by the said C. Mallory dec'd to said persons" (Dade County Missouri Probate Court, vol. 1-3, 1841-1866, Book 2, page 146).  The index also records Lucy Ann McDaniel.

This distribution of funds by the court gives us the names of most of William's children: George E. (who died four years before William), John, William P., Lucy Ann McDaniel, Elizabeth (who married Richard Clopton and died one year before William), and Constantine Mallory (who died about the same time as William). 

According to various sources, the children of William Mallory fought with Amanda in court over her inheritance at the death of their father, her husband of about one year (and almost forty years her senior).  In the end, the court gave her the house and some acreage, and the rest was divided among the children.  William also left an acre of land to the Antioch church.  ( https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mallory/1866/ )

As a side note, Amanda (who could not read or write according to the 1850 census) married Andrew D. Hudspeth in 1852.  A.D. Hudspeth was a judge in the Probate Court from 1850-1852.

A few years later, William P. and his wife Peggy (Margaret) and Nestor McDaniel and wife Lucy Ann agreed to sell part of the land they inherited from their father, amounting to 320 acres (vol. 3, page 497).

John held on to his land in Dade County until 1866, when he sold "parcels of land" in Section 14, Township 30, Range Twenty-Six for $2,240.  (Deed Records v. 10, 1865-68 Dade County Missouri.)  That amount is equal to over $43,000 in 2023.

 

William Mallory's signature



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