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The Ancestors of Elizabeth "Lizzy" Pathosica Mallory

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Kennedy M. Crockett Kennedy McCampbell Crockett was a Foreign Ambassador in the 1960s and 1970s.  Thanks to his second wife, Lelah Eastwood Crockett (who was also a member of the State Department) we have an extensive family tree for him, including a Mallory line that descends from Roger Mallory (1632-1696) and his son, Thomas Mallory (1674-1753), brother to our John Mallory* (1705-1774).   Elizabeth P Mallory Kennedy Crockett was the grandson of Elizabeth "Lizzy" Pathosica Mallory (1856-1910). Lizzy married Samuel Abraham Crockett in 1877.  They and their family of six children moved from Missouri to Texas in 1900.  Lizzy was the daughter of Thomas W. Mallory and Isabel Carter.  As with our Mallory line, Thomas and Isabel were born in Virginia but arrived in Missouri early in the 1800s, where their nine children were born.   Thomas W. Mallory (1817-1900) was the son of Edward Mallory and Lucy Humston, the fifth of ten children.  While there was some ...

Descendants of William Perkin Mallory

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      No genealogist works alone.   We are all helped along the road by our “cousins” – even those we never met in person.   Frances Nadine Mallory Fields was our cousin, and this is her tree.       William Perkin Mallory* (son of William, brother of John) married Bettie Elizabeth Scott, 11 Sept 1845, in Dade County, Missouri.   Their son, William Jesse Mallory, was born the next year, 12 August 1846, and their daughter, Lucy, was born in 1848.   Bettie died shortly afterward.   After the death of Bettie, Perkin married Margaret Meeks in Dade County, Missouri.  In the 1850 Census, they are recorded as having been married before the census year.  It also shows William, age 4, and 2-year-old Lucy living with Perkin and Margaret.  They are located one farm away from Perkin’s father, 63-year-old William, and his young wife, Amanda, with William’s youngest son (Perkin’s brother), Constantine.  Both William and Constan...