Biography of George W. Mallet - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 83

George W. Mallet, prominently numbered among the pioneer settlers of
Conway County, was born in Carroll County, Georgia, in 1839, and is a
son of Jesse and Tabitha (Sterling) Mallet, the former born in Hancock
County, Georgia, in 1803, and the latter in Mecklenburg County, North
Carolina, in 1810. They were married in Monroe County, Georgia, but
afterward lived a short time in Alabama and Mississippi, and about
the year 1841 immigrated to Conway County, then almost a wild waste,
and thinly settled, and where game was abundant. He located in what is
now Faulkner County, where he took an active part in the improvement
of the county, and spent his future life as a farmer, serving as
Justice of the Peace a short time. His death occurred in 1860, but his
estimable wife survived him fifteen years. They led an industrious and
moral life, although not identified with any religious denomination.
The grandfather of our subject (Jesse Mallet) was a Virginian by
birth, but died in Monroe County, Georgia. He was a blacksmith and
millstone cutter by occupation, and was of French descent. William
Sterling, the maternal grandfather, died in Georgia, but formerly
lived in North Carolina. G. W. Mallet was reared to farm life, being
educated in the subscription schools, and aided in clearing up the old
homestead farm. He enlisted in June, 1862, in Capt. J. D. Morgan's
company of Arkansas Infantry, of the Confederate army, and fought at
Prairie Grove and at Helena, and when the army went south he remained
in Arkansas, and in December, 1863, joined Company G. Third Arkansas
Cavalry, and operated in Arkansas till June, 1865, when he was
honorably discharged, and returned to farm life, and the same year he
was married to Henrietta Cashirighi and native of Italy, and a
daughter of Gilbert and Mary M. Cashirighi, who were natives of Italy,
where they were reared and married, but in an early day came to
Arkansas, and lived some years in Prairie County, but prior to the war
came to this county, where Mr. Cashirighi was engaged in farming. He
died about 1886, and his wife followed him two years later. Both were
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To Mr. and Mrs.
Mallet were born ten children, three sons and five daughters, living.
After his marriage Mr. Mallet continued to reside in what is now
Faulkner County for a few years. He then removed to this side of the
Cadron, and settled in the woods, but has since opened up about 100
acres of land, being the owner of over 600 acres in all, which is the
fruit of his own industry. His aid and influence have ever been
devoted to the growth and welfare of this locality. He is independent
in politics, and he and Mrs. Mallet are faithful members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.