Descendants of William Perkin Mallory

 
 
 
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 Constantine died shortly after the census was taken (possibly of cholera, which was rampant at the time).

Over the next ten years, Perkin and Margaret had five children, all boys.  They were Thomas Woodrow Mallory (b. 1851), George Wiloughby Mallory (b. 1853), Francis “Frank” Marion Mallory (b. 1855), James Morgan Mallory (b. 1856), and John Miles Mallory (b. 1860).  According to the 1860 Census, William, Thomas and George were all attending school, and Perkin’s family was living next door to his brother, John, and family.  John’s two daughters, Jane and Amanda, were also attending school.

A biography about George Wiloughby Mallory appeared in the History of Dade County (which contains a few genealogical errors) and describes his childhood as “Starting  in  life  from  the  humble  surroundings  of  a log  cabin  in  an  isolated  community.”  

In 1863, Perkin was registered for the U.S. Civil War Draft (Union Army).  Although additional military records for William P. are not yet forthcoming, his son William Jesse Mallory joined the Union army at the age of 18 and mustered on 1 Nov 1863 with Company E, 15th Cavalry as a private.  He was described as 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with blue eyes, light hair and a light complexion.  At that time, he was married to Lou Anna Jones.  

William Jesse and Lou Anna had one son, George Wiloughby Mallory (b. 1863, not to be confused with George Wiloughby Mallory b. 1853, son of William Perkin Mallory).

Following his return from the war, William Jesse “Jay” Mallory and his wife, Lou Anna, had three more sons, William Thomas Mallory (b. 1865), Johnnie Mallory (b. 1869), and Charlie Mallory (b. 1873).  Both Lou Anna and their newborn son, Charlie, died 3 April 1873 of measles.  Nadine Mallory Fields stated, “They say he was put in the casket with her.”

by Judie Lauer, FindaGrave.com

Meanwhile, Perkin and Margaret had their youngest two children, Molima Mallory (b. 1869) and Ticey Ann Mallory (b. 1872), roughly twenty years after the birth of Perkin’s first child.  The 1880 Census records William P[erkin] Mallory, age 52, as residing with his wife and three children: two of his sons, George W (age 27) and John M (age 21), doing farm work, and daughter Ticey A (age 9), attending school.  The family lived next door to Perk’s son, Frank M. Mallory and his wife, Columbia, with their son, Walter (age 2).  Next door to Frank was another of Perkin and Margaret’s sons, James Mallory, with his wife Isabel, and their daughter Bertha (age 7 months).

According to his History of Dade County biography, “George  W.  remained  at  home  till  the  death  of  his father, in  1882.  He  was  married  August  10th,  1884,  to Lucy  Thomas  Jones.”  According to his headstone, Perkin died 10 May 1883 and was buried in the Antioch Cemetery (the same cemetery as his father, William, whose headstone has been lost).

Dade County Advocate, 14 June 1883 p.1
The History of Dade County also records that “At  the  time  of  his death  William P. Mallory  was  the owner  of  107  acres  of  good  land, which  is  now  owned  by George  W.  The  log  house originally  erected  on  the  land is still standing.”

George became the guardian of his youngest sibling, Ticey Ann Mallory (b. 1872), and gave permission for her marriage in 1886 to 24-year-old Malen Funk.  She was fourteen.

Wm "Jay" Mallory
Following the death of his wife, Lou Anna, Jay married Esther Gibson in 1875.  The 1880 Census places two of Jay’s sons from his first marriage, William (age 15) and George (age 12), as working on their father’s farm, but neither could read or write.  (According to Nadine Mallory Fields, Jay’s son Johnnie had died young.)  Jay and Esther had two sons before 1880, James Frank Mallory (b. 1875) and Ervin McMaster Mallory (b. 1878).

 

William Jesse Mallory and Family
 

The two boys were followed by Joseph S. Mallory (b. 1881), Eldora Mallory (b. 1883), and Eliza A Mallory (b. 1887), all born in Dade County, Missouri.

Apparently, Jay was in some way disabled during the Civil War, which might explain why the two teenage boys were working the family farm rather than attending school.  Then, shortly after Eliza was born, the family went to Arkansas, and Jay put in for a pension based on his war wound.  Jay and Esther’s son, Levi “Jack” Newton Mallory was born in Arkansas in 1889.  Their twin daughters, Mary B. and Emery Victory Mallory, were born three years later.  

by P. Jones at FindaGrave
Emery died in 1900 at the age of seven and was buried at Sinking Creek Cemetery in Dade County. 

The 1900 Census found Jay and family back in Dade County, Missouri, in district 67.  He was 52 years old and an invalid.  His sons James (called “Coot” by the family) and Ervin McMaster (called Mike in the census and “Boog” by the family) were living in district 70, next door to their brother, George Wiloughby.  Although Jay could read and write--and a later census stated that he completed the 6th grade--none of his older sons were literate.  They were listed as farmers or farm laborers.

In 1910, district 76, Jay, with his wife and two youngest children, were living next door to Boog.  (Jay’s younger children could read and write.)  Boog was married and had two young sons of his own.  On the other side of Jay’s farm lived a nephew, the son of his brother Thomas Woodrow Mallory: Charles Edgar Mallory, and his family.  Coot and his family were two farms away from Boog, and next door to their brother, George.

Five farms away in the other direction were Jay’s brother Francis “Frank” Marion Mallory and family, Frank’s son Walter W. Mallory and family, and another of Frank’s son, Roy, and family, who were further down the road.  Jay’s brother George Wiloughby Mallory and family were next door to Jay’s son William T. Mallory and family.

This list of the descendants of Perkin Mallory in 1910 Dade County does not even begin to cover the in-laws.  Pretty much everyone enumerated in this district, a short 13-page census (including the many, many Scotts and Joneses) were all related to each other.

Boog married Mary Elizabeth Jones in 1901 and their first child was born and died at the home of Boog’s father, Jay.  Their two sons on the 1910 census were William Clarence “John” Mallory (b. 1903) and Henry Loyd Mallory (b. 1907).

by Kevin at FindaGrave

 
William Jesse “Jay” Mallory died of paralysis in 1914, at the age of 67.  (Perhaps related to his war wound?)  Three of his brothers passed away in the 1920s, and one lived into the 1930s.  They all appear to have worked as farmers until they dropped.

Sometime in the 1930s, Boog began grading roads for the Works Projects Administration (WPA), a part of the “New Deal,” but in the 1950 Census, he had returned to farming.  He was then 71 years old and his farm helper was a boarder, who was also 71 years old.  According to this census, Boog had never gone to school.


Boog’s son, William Clarence “John” Mallory, attended school through 6th grade, then began working on the family farm as a teenager.  He married Bernice Audrey Walker in 1926, and their first child was born the following year: Frances Nadine Mallory.  John then went to work on the “Frisco Section” of the St. Louis—San Francisco railway, but by 1935 John and his family were living in Fowler, Fresno County, California.

John’s parents, Boog and Mary Elizabeth, and sister, Marjorie, came out to visit them the next year (Fowler Ensign, 25 June 1936, p5.)  Then, John and family appear on the 1940 Census back in Missouri.  Nadine Fields recalled that John’s second child, Charles Ervin Mallory, was born “at home” in March of 1939, in South Greenfield, “called South Town,” at “what they called the twenty acres.” 

Their next child, Clarence Mallory Jr., was born in Dade County, 19 August 1940, at the home of John’s parents in Everton, Dade, Missouri, and died the same day.  He was buried in Antioch Cemetery.

The family returned to Fowler, California, in time for the 1942 Draft Registration and the birth of John Larry Mallory in June of that year.  On the draft card, John was described as 5 ft. 11 in., 165 lbs., with blue eyes, brown hair, and a ruddy complexion.  He was working on a farm, and he gave the name of his sister as someone who would always know where he was, except he didn’t have her address.

John’s son, Charles Ervin Mallory “started wearing glasses at age 3 (January 1942), [but] he wasn’t cross-eyed until a pan of hot water accidentally spilled on his head and neck.”

Bonnie Lavonne Mallory was born to John and Bernice in 1945, in Fowler, California.

John’s daughter, Nadine graduated from Fowler High School, then worked in a beauty salon in Greenfield, Dade, Missouri, while living with her maternal grandparents.  [newspaper article]  In 1947, she married Smokey Cash Fields, a World War II veteran, also from Fowler, who “spent 10 months in Japan.”  They returned to California after the wedding (Fowler Ensign, 24 July 1947, p.6).

The 1950 Census puts John and family back in Dade County, Missouri, where he was again farming.  Bernice passed away at the age of 55 and John lived to be 67 years old. Both were buried in Eugene, Oregon.

by Cindy at FindaGrave
by Cindy at FindaGrave

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
Nadine stated of her brother, “Charles went into the service March 1958, then to Colorado for basic training, then to Fort Lee, VA until June 24, 1958.  He was then sent to Toul, France, and Berchtesgaden, Germany.  Discharged 16 Dec 1964.”  In 1973, at the age of 34, “His car went into the Siuslaw River and he drowned.”
 
Nadine Fields pursued an interest in genealogy, and she generously shared what she learned about the Mallory family with her cousins.  Her grandson wrote, “She was an amazing person.”  She passed away in 2005.
 
Find more Dade County, Missouri, Mallorys in the cemeteries below:
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*There is a William P Mallery who joined Co. H (Capt. Bradfute’s), Third Regiment Tennessee Infantry (Mexican War) as a private at the age of 18 in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 24, 1847, through December 31, 1847, and seems to have re-enlisted under the name James W. Mallery in early 1848 through July 24, 1848.  These dates do not mesh well with the birth of Perkin’s daughter, so there is good reason to doubt that it is him.

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