Bio of Ebber Lee Malone (m450) - Latimer County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Ginger McCall  <call6@mynewroads.com>  5 Sep 2003
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Ebber Lee Malone
Transcribed by G McCall from:
A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

By Luther B. Hill, A. B., With the Assistance of Local Authorities, Volume 
II, Illustrated, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago / New York, 1909, 
Page 314-315

EBBER LEE MALONE, the register of deeds, of Latimer county, has been 
identified with the interests of its county seat of Wilburton only since 
assuming the duties of his office November 16, 1907. His life history 
starts in a humble home where the virtues of industry and honesty were 
paramount and where the face of good fortune seldom seemed to smile. Born 
in Mississippi, January 1, 1879, he is a son of Joseph and Jane E. 
(Lambert) Malone.

Joseph Malone was born in the state of Alabama, near Birmingham, in 1844, 
a son of a native Irishman and a farmer. Joseph was married in Mississippi 
to a Mrs. Greenwood, a daughter of Samuel Lambert, and in time they went 
to Arkansas and located in the western part of the state. While farming 
and struggling along to obtain a safe foothold on the things of life he 
passed away, in the year 1898, leaving his widow to provide for a young 
family and well did she discharge her duties. She reared and established 
well in life the children of her first marriage, and then came those of 
her second to be cared for and educated. In 1871 she moved to the Choctaw 
Nation and has since made her home in Red Oak. The children of her first 
marriage are: William M. Greenwood, who is editor of two Democrat 
newspapers at Paris and Charleston, Arkansas, and Mattie, wife of Thomas 
Compton, a farmer of California. The Malone children are: Laura B., wife 
of R. A. Nunnellee, a lumber dealer of Polk county, Arkansas; Ebber L., 
mentioned below; Sophia, who married a Mr. Kiser, a farmer of Kansas; and 
Minnie and Bert, of Red Oak, Oklahoma.

Until eighteen years of age Ebber L. Malone knew little work save that of 
the farm, and his education was most meager owing to the fact that his 
labors had to be converted into the maintenance of the family. He entered 
the employ of a mining company in the Choctaw nation in 1901. He readily 
absorbed the principles of the business of the Turkey Creek Coal Company, 
and the firm of Denman and Batch were his employers as long as he remained 
in the business. Mr. Malone finally left the pit to make the race for the 
nomination for register of deeds against three competitors, returning to 
his work after successfully winning the race and leaving it only to take 
the oath of office and become the first county recorder of Latimer county. 
He defeated his Republican opponent by three hundred and sixty-seven 
votes.

Mr. Malone is unmarried. He owns property in Red Oak, and is a Democrat. 
He is a charter member of Oak Lodge No. 84, Knights of Pythias and a 
member of Jeff Davis Council No. 35, Junior Order of United American 
Mechanics. He is also a member of the United Mine Workers and a stanch 
union man.
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