YELL CO, AR - MITCHELL MALONE - Bio

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. 
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

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Mitchell Malone, deceased. This gentleman, who was one of the 
honored and esteemed citizens of the county, was born in Alabama, on 
February 2, 1825. He was reared on the farm and received a limited 
education in the common schools. In November, 1870, he emigrated to 
Arkansas and bought a tract of land containing 190 acres in Yell 
County the following year. This he improved until he had about 
thirty-three acres under cultivation, erected a box house and other 
small buildings. 

He was twice married, first to Miss Mary --, who died in 1858, 
leaving four children, and on November 2, 1858, he was married to 
Miss Elizabeth Crowell, who became the mother of eight children, six 
of whom are living: Phoebe C., James H., Orena Bell, George, Rosa 
and Anna. Phoebe and James are married, and the others are at home 
with their mother. The father of these children died in Yell County, 
Ark., in 1877, and in his death the county keenly felt the loss of 
one of her much esteemed citizens. 

His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Malone, was born August 13, 1839, in 
Alabama, and is the daughter of Harris Crowell, one of the 
successful farmers of that State. She was reared on the farm, and 
although her educational advantages were not of the best, she was 
faithfully drilled in industrious habits, which beaten track she has 
ever since followed. At the death of her husband she was left with 
eight small children, the eldest not over fourteen years of age, and 
with her own hands and the help of her children, she cleared seventy 
acres, which she cultivated. She paid $1,500 for the farm, erected a 
good house, 40×42, with a wing 18×18 feet, and also erected a good 
barn besides other outbuildings. She has a good apple and peach 
orchard which she planted, and which now supplies her with abundance 
of fruit, and has many other luxuries which are the work of this 
wonderfully determined and resolute lady. 

Although she received limited educational advantages herself, she is 
giving her children the benefit of a liberal schooling. She is a 
member of the Baptist Church, and is among the foremost to aid all 
who are helpless and in need, giving liberally of her means to all 
enterprises of a laudable nature. She has the respect and best 
wishes of the entire community.