Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Malone, Henry H. March 29 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    HENRY H. MALONE, M. D., the oldest practicing physician of Brewton, was born
in Columbus, Ga., March 29, 1837, the son of William P. and Rebecca Malone. Dr.
Malone received a liberal education in his youth, as did also all his brothers
and sisters. Having early selected the medical profession for his life work, he
prepared himself for the same by taking a thorough course in the university of
New York, which institution he entered at the age of twenty-three, and from
which he graduated in the class of 1860. Immediately after his graduation he
began the practice of his profession in Brewton, where he has ever since
resided, and his reputation as a skillful physician and surgeon is not confined
to Escambia alone, but has spread to a number of other counties in southern
Alabama and northern Florida. In 1861 the doctor raised a company for the First
Florida infantry, and served as captain for a period of twelve months, resigning
at the end of that time on account of a chronic ailment contracted while in the
service, and for eighteen months thereafter was compelled to keep his bed by
reason of great bodily suffering The doctor ranks deservedly high in his
profession, and his practice, which is still very extensive and lucrative, has
returned him a comfortable competence, which he is now enjoying in one of the
largest and most comfortable houses in Escambia county. During the great yellow
fever epidemic which raged throughout the southern states in 1883, and which
visited Brewton with especial virulence, more than 50 per cent of the cases in
the town proving fatal, Dr. Malone did not desert his patients, but labored
assiduously, night and day, in behalf of the sufferers for a period of six
weeks, during which time the plague reached its most, violent stage. In June,
1865, Mary A., daughter of James and Elizabeth Snowden, became the doctor's
wife, and seven children have blessed their union, namely: Rebecca P.; Eugene, a
student in Alabama Medical college, Mobile; Walter J.; Ella Penn; Jessie; Maud,
and Ruby. Politically, the doctor adheres to the faith of the democratic party,
and in religion is a communicant of the Methodist church, to which his wife also
belongs. The doctor's father, William P. Malone, was born in South Carolina in
the year 1800, and in early life moved to Georgia, locating at the town of
Columbus, where for some years he carried on an extensive mercantile business,
and accumulated a large fortune. He served in the Creek war, was a man of much
more than ordinary powers of mind, highly educated and a most genial and
accomplished southern gentleman. He married near Milledgeville, Ga., December
23, 1834, Miss Rebecca P. Griggs, who bore him the following-named children:
Henry H.; Eliza, widow of John Iverson; Sarah, Arthur and Chandler, the last
three deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Malone departed this life in the years 1849 and
1883, respectively. Dr. Malone's grandfather, on the paternal side, was Robert
Malone, a native of South Carolina, of English-Scotch descent, and maternally he
is descended from one of the old Virginia families, which settled prior to the
Revolutionary war in Dinwiddie county, that state. The maternal grandfather,
William Griggs, was born in Virginia, March 13, 1787, moved to Hancock county,
Ga., when a young man, and there married Charlotte Penn, also a native of
Virginia and second cousin of the renowned William Penn, founder of the city of
Philadelphia. Jesse Griggs, father of William Griggs, was a Virginian of
Welsh-Irish descent.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 981-982
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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