Mallorys in Missouri, 1860s

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 returned home and died in Grayson county, in 1869.  He was a stone mason by trade and worked at the same in early life, but devoted the most of his attention to farming, at which he was very successful.  His wife bore the maiden name of Eliza A. M. Hackney, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, and died in Texas in 1870" (biography of "William F. Mallory," page 566).

William F. Mallory was John's son.  His biography states that he was "the fourth child in a family of eight.  He was raised in Missouri and educated there, and, in 1862, joined the Confederate army as a private in Company H, of Coffee's regiment of State guards, but was afterwards transferred to Company A, of the Third Missouri cavalry, of Sheby's [sic] brigade, and served until the close of the war" (566).  The article goes on to say that he married Margaret Thomas on January 20, 1867 in Grayson county, Texas.

June Ferguson's biography of Benjamin Franklin Mallory records that "Norma Mallory Geiger recalled Ben telling that John went into the army and took William who was about 16 with him so the 'bushwhackers' wouldn't kill him.  William's discharge papers from the army record his age as 18, which should indicate he was in the army two years.  The papers describe William as 5 feet 8 inches, with blue eyes and fair complexion.  According to Lee, Ben's youngest son, Perkin, John's brother, joined the Union army" (1986, page 2).  Records indicate that Perkin was drafted.

I recommend pages 3 and 4 of the biography for more information on John's family during the Civil War.

The Greenfield historical marker describes Dade county as "A divided county in the Civil War, Dade suffered guerilla raids, troop movement, and skirmishes.  In Oct., 1863, Union soldiers stationed in Greenfield withdrew at the approach of Confederate General Joseph O. Shelby's troops who burned the courthouse."

History of Dade County continues, "Dade County suffered terribly from the ravages of the war" (77) and "A number of citizens were killed in their fields, or at their homes, or on the public roads, by unknown bushwhackers, and many dwellings and much other property throughout the county was laid in ashes" (78).

William Mallory's children and grandchildren rode out the Civil War in Dade County, despite circumstances, but their migration West continued into Texas.

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