Robert Elliott Malone -- Trigg County Farmer

 

Robert Elliott Malone

 Robert Elliott Malone was born on January 5, 1896 in Trigg County, Kentucky.  He was the youngest of seven children born to Edmund Pendleton, Jr., and Terece Elizabeth Lawrence Malone.  He grew up in the Warrenton Community of Trigg County and attended Warrenton Elementary School.

In July 1918, Elliott was drafted into the U. S. Army and was sent to Camp Taylor, Kentucky located near Louisville, where he received his basic training. He was then assigned to the Company D, 1st Pioneer Infantry and served in the occupation army in France at the end of World War I.  He was discharged from the military on July 7, 1919 and returned to Trigg County.

Elliott married Annie Lucille Williams on October 11, 1922.  Elliott and Annie drove a horse and buggy to the Cadiz home of the Reverend Henry Seymour Gillette, where Reverend Gillette married them as they sat in Elliott’s buggy.   They were accompanied by Annie’s sister, Sidney Alma, and her husband, Pink Harrell Guier, who also remained in the back of their buggy during the ceremony.

Annie was born on March 5, 1903 in Calloway County Kentucky, the daughter of Thomas Green and Johnnie Vara Thomas Williams. Annie was the second of eight children born to Tom, a farmer and Johnnie Vara.  Both of them were natives of Trigg county Kentucky, Johnnie Vara was a granddaughter of Stanley Thomas.

After their marriage, Elliott and Annie lived on the Malone family farm located about three miles west of Cadiz.  Elliott joined with his brother, Henry and they operated the farm which originally belonged to their father.  During the depression, when the farm income was very meager, Elliott and Henry supplemented their income by selling chickens as well as selling eggs, butter and cream.  The brothers even created a chicken hatchery where they raised baby chickens on the farm which were sold to a wholesale company.

To help the family finances, Elliott also worked for a few years as a door to door salesman for the J. R. Watkins Products Company selling liniment and baking materials such as pepper, vanilla, lemon and peppermint extract. In addition, he worked as a guard at Lock E. Dam on the Cumberland River.

Elliott and Annie were the parents of six children, four daughters, and two sons. They were Martha Nell Malone, born in 1925; Edmund Pendleton Malone, born in 1929 and died as an infant the following year; Celena Ann Malone, born in 1931; Betty Sue Malone, born in 1934; Vara Jo Malone, born in 1940 and Robert Elliott Malone, Jr., born in 1944.

After the death of his brother, Henry, in 1955, Elliott continued to operate the family farm.  In 1963, he and Annie moved into the family home on the farm which has been the house where Elliot was born.  He continued to operate the farm until his death.  After his death, Annie continued to manage the farm for almost 18 years until her death.

Elliott Malone died on August 15, 1964 in Cadiz, Kentucky at the age of 68.  Annie died on July 5, 1982 in Cadiz at the age of 79.  Both are buried in the Lawrence Cemetery in Trigg County.

Grave marker of Robert Elliott Malone

Grave marker of Annie Williams Malone

LINEAGE:  (Robert Elliott Malone was married to Annie Lucille Williams.  Annie was the daughter of Thomas Green and Johnnie Vara Thomas Williams, the granddaughter of William Henry and Sidney Dyer Thomas and the great-granddaughter of Stanley and Emily Ann Light Thomas.  Stanley was the second child of Starkie and Mary Bridges Thomas.  Starkie was the fourth child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.  Mary Bridges was the seventh child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.)