Mallory Family Book

Quoting Norma Mallory Geiger, the Mallory history records that "John went into the army and took William who was about 16 with him so the 'bushwhackers'* wouldn't kill him." June Mallory Ferguson goes on to state, "John was wounded in battle, a chest wound which put him in a hospital for some time."    According to the Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas , John "served a short time in the Confederate army, but, owing to his advanced age, returned home and died in Grayson county, in 1869" (566).  The same source states that William "joined the Confederate army as a private in Company H, of Coffee's regiment of State guards, but was afterward transferred to Company A, of the Third Missouri cavalry, of Shelby's brigade, and served until the close of the war" (566).   The National Park Service Soldier Details entry for Wm Mallory shows that he was in the Missouri State Guards, but lacks any dates or rank.  John does not a...

Rhoda Salome Eastman was born 20 Dec 1837 in Mississippi to Levi J. and Mary B. (Arnett) Eastman.  She was the fourth of seven children born in Mississippi, with the eighth and youngest sibling born in Texas in 1847.          Rhoda married Erasmus Miller Owen, a Baptist preacher, on 6 Sep 1858 in San Saba, Texas.  She was the mother of Letitia Owen (called "Tishy" by the family, wife of Ben Mallory) plus eleven more children.     She was described in June Ferguson's Mallory family history: "Rhoda Eastman Owen was born in Natchez, Mississippi.  She was remembered by her son, Conrad, as a quiet, kindly woman who liked to have him read to her when she wasn't well.  He said she was convinced that God will eventually save all, despite all preaching to the contrary.  Rhoda had what came to be known as 'typical Owen eyes' which many of her children and grandchildren inherited. Leona Mallory Poor, dau of Letitia (Owen) an...

The year 1918 was a year of tragedies.  It saw the only decline in world population (0.06 percent) on record since the plague (1350).   The Spanish Flu pandemic resulted in an estimated 25 to 50 million deaths world-wide, with a guess-timated 675,000 deaths in the U.S. (there are no definite numbers for this).  It was also the final year of World War I, which resulted in total deaths of an estimated 9 million soldiers and 5 million civilians over four years.     Partly in response to the war, the Bolshevik party took over Russia in October 1917.  In 1918, the Bolsheviks ordered the execution of former Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family, and over 200,000 people were killed during the Red Terror, which began that same year.   Where were Benjamin Franklin Mallory and his family during this fateful year?   To begin with, Ben Mallory appears on the 1917 Polk's Wallowa Tax List with an assessment valuation of $2,330 (about $56,000 in 2023 dolla...

  John and Mary Mallory with son, William, by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Royal Collection Trust William Mallory married Dionysia Tempest, and succeeded his father-in-law in 1444 to the “Place caullyed High Studley a little from Fontaines.”  There has been a residence at the site of the Hall since ancient times, and the first mention of Great Studley or Studley Royal was in the twelfth century, not long after the founding of Fountains Abbey in the nearby valley of Skell Dale.   The Abbey was established by Cistercian monks.   In the grounds of Studley, near the Abbey, is Robin Hood’s well. ( Genealogy of the Mallorys of Virginia by Henry R. Mallory, pub. by the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1955, p. 58.) “A short distance from the ruins [of the Abbey], by the side of the path, there is a recess arched with stone and fringed with foliage; it is known by the name of ROBIN HOOD’S WELL, and so designated from its proximity to the presumed arena where—o...