Mallory Family Book

from the Oklahoma Historical Society  Lila Mallory Brewer recalled, "When we left Tap [Texas], we moved to Mangum, Oklahoma.  Dad bought a wagon yard there.  It was what we would now call a tourist camp, with small houses like present-day motels where people traveling in wagons would spend the night or sometimes rest a few days.  There was a large house we lived in and about twelve or so of the small houses.  I think I was four years old (between four and five) when we moved there." By statehood [1907], Mangum had a population of 2,672. It had two school buildings, an opera house and a county courthouse. (Wikipedia) "My memories of Mangum are quite plain.  We went to a church where there were many 'well-to-do' people.  They came to church dressed in silks and satins.  I remember middle-aged and old women sweeping into church in their finery such as we had never seen before.  Everyone wore long dresses when they were 'dressed up' to go to chur...

  Rhoda Eliza "Lila" Mallory and Dr. James F. Brewer Jr. were married in 1925 at the Sassaquin TB sanatorium where Jim worked.  This clipping was in Dot Mallory's notebook, which was dated 1923 to 1925, Dallas, Texas.    Lila c. 1925 Lila and Jim lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for most of their married life, but traveled to Tennessee, Maine,and North Carolina, Jim's home state, and Texas, where Lila was born.     Dot Mallory identified the people in this photograph as Dot Mallory (L), "possibly Wanda [?] next to Dot, Ben Brewer, Dr. James Brewer (C) & Lila With Vic [son of Leona Lucy Mallory Poor] behind him, then Lucy (R),  and their Jimmy."  Vic was born in 1933, which dates this photo to only a few years later.  The photo was located in Pinkney Poor's album, so it was likely taken in California. Sassaquin c. 1955   According to the 1940 Census, the family was living on the Sassaquin Sanatorium grounds with their two son...