MALLORY, VALENTINE R., was born Dec. 16, 1798, near Paris, Bourbon county, Ky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of the river Thames. Nancy Dawson was born Sept. 20, 1802, in Fairfax county, Va., and in 1804 was taken by her parents to Bracken county, Ky. V. R. Mallory and Nancy Dawson were there married, June 28, 1821. They had three children, and in March, 1827, united with the Baptist church. They moved, in company with her brother, John Dawson (see his name) to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 22, 1827, in what is now Clear Lake township, where they had six children. Of all their children--

WILLIAM A., was born Oct. 25, 1822, in Bracken county, Ky. At nineteen years of age he commenced teaching school, and reading medicine, first under Dr. John Todd, of Springfield, then at Laporte, Ind. His first practice was at Beloit, Wisconsin, one year. He spent some time at Louisville Medical College, in 1846, and Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, in 1847, and located at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1848. He was married at Denmark, five miles from Fort Madison, Lee county, Iowa, June 6, 1848, to Susan A. Johnson, who was born Feb. 21, 1824, at Bedford, Penn., of Scotch parents. Dr. Mallory and his wife had one child in Iowa, and returned to Illinois. He commenced practice, in Springfield, Dec. 21, 1849. In Aug., 1852, he commenced publishing the Cnristian Sentinel. It was sold to Eureka College, in February, 1856. March 20, 1856, he went into the employ of the Illinois State Christian Association, preaching and teaching at Pittsfield and Rushville, and then to the churches in Sangamon and Menard counties, until the beginning of the rebellion, when he resumed the practice of medicine in Clear Lake township. In June, 1862, he was commissioned, by Governor Yates, as a recruiting officer, which culminated in the organization of the 114th Ill, Inf. Dr. Mallory became Captain of Co. C, at the organization of the regiment. He served until Sept. 11, 1863, when he resigned on account of ill health. On recovering, he resumed practice, preaching and Sunday school work, at Howlett, now Riverton. Dr. Mallory and his wife had two children in Sangamon county. Of their three children--ROLLIN V., born March 26, 1849, at West Point, Lee county, Iowa, married in Sangamon county, Sept., 1872, to Miranda Cantrall. They have one child, WILLIAM C., and live at Cantrall, Sangamon county. ALEXANDER J., born Apr. 28, 1857, and INA SUE, born March 16, 1863, reside with their parents, near Riverton, and within half a mile of where his parents settled, in 1827.

JOHN T., born April 27, 1825, in Bracken county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April, 1847, to Elizabeth Myers. They had two children--CLARENCE A. married Mary Strode, and reside in Fancy Creek township. HERP L. is unmarried, and resides in Abilene, Kansas--1874. Mrs. Elizabeth Mallory died in Macon county. J. T. Mallory married Mrs. Ellen Simpson, whose maiden name was Holden. They have seven children, and live near Ottawa, Franklin county, Kansas.

ELIZABETH, born May 28, 1827, in Bracken county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 8, 1857, to John C. Anderson, who was born Dec. 2, 1833, near Bloomington, Ind. They had three children, ELIJAH H., CLARA M. and JOHN C. Mr. Anderson died Dec. 6, 1860, near Williamsville. His widow and children reside with her mother, near Riverton.

REUBEN, born Sept. 7, 1829, in Sangamon county, married, April, 1854, to Mary J. Nesbitt. They have seven children, and reside near Buffalo, Wilson county, Kansas.

EGBERT O., born Dec. 21, 1831, in Sangamon county, married, August, 1858, to Nancy A. Cantrall. They have five children. E. O. Mallory enlisted July, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years. He was elected Lieutenant at the organization of the company, promoted to Captain, in 1863; served as such to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably mustered out, at Springfield, in 1865. He moved to Knox county, Mo., and was elected Judge of the County Court of that county, and now resides near Greensburg, Missouri.

ELIZA F., born Sept. 15, 1834, in Sangamon county, married G. W. Brittin. See his name. He died, and she married Thomas Glascock. See his name.

NANCY D., born Sept. 17, 1836, in Sangamon county, married Henry Brittin. See his name.

JAMES D., born May 9, 1839, in Sangamon county, married April 25, 1861, to Frances P. Cantrall. They have two children, HENRY E. and EDWIN O. James D. Mallory enlisted July 25, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., and was elected orderly Sergeant at the organization of the company. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, June 10, 1864, was in hospital one month at Mobile, in Andersonville prison from August 1 to Sept. 13; while there he saw the inhuman rebel, Gen Winder, fall dead, from either heart disease or apoplexy. Mr. Mallory was sent to Charleston and kept three weeks under the fire of the Union artillery while the bombardment was progressing. He saw a Union soldier who tried to escape, hung by the thumbs with a small cord and drawn up until his feet barely touched the ground. He was whirled around until circulation ceased, and he was dead in fifteen minutes. He was sent from Charleston to Florence in Oct., 1864, remaining five months. Rations was half a pint of corn meal, corn and cob ground together, and half a pint of peas. Had one small ration of meat soon after entering, and no more until March, 1865, when six cows heads were sent in with the tongues and brains taken out. He was hospital steward at the time, and issued them himself. At Florence a soldier had no blanket, and when he asked for one he was tied up and whipped one hundred lashes by a New York rough named Stanton, under direction of the prison authorities. The soldier lived through it. Stanton received some favor for it, but was watched and killed at Annapolis, Md. When Sherman's army approached the prison in March, 1865, Mr. Mallory was among those who were too much emaciated to march, and was released, paroled, and fell into the hands of the Union soldiers. J. D. Mallory resides in Clear Lake township, near Riverton, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARK C., born Jan. 16, 1844, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 28, 1869, in Menard county, to Emily Jordan. They live near Olathe, Johnson county, Kansas.

Valentine R. Mallory died Nov. 21, 1864, and his widow resides on the tarm where they settled in 1827. It is three miles southeast of Riverton, formerly Howlett, and previous to that Jamestown, Sangamon county, Illinois.