JAMES DOUGLAS MALONEY

 The following bio was taken from page 296 of the book entitled “Rusk County History” compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

 Transcribed by Shirley Koym

 Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas

 The first ancestor of James Douglas Maloney to come to America was Daniel Moloney (spelled with an “o” but later changed to “a”).  Daniel, born in Ireland in 1819, ran away at the age of seventeen to come to New York.  It is thought that he worked for a railroad as a mail clerk.  He married Ann O’Connor in 1849.

 The 1860 Rusk County Census listed Daniel Maloney as residing in the Millville Community with his wife, Ann, and sons Daniel Jr. and Thomas.  Both Daniel Jr., 1855, and Thomas, December 25, 1858, were born in Louisiana.  The census did not list Henry John, born in 1851, since he died in 1860.

 The Maloney’s probably arrived in Rusk County in 1858 and settled in the Millville area near Mill Creek.  After reaching Texas, two other children were born to Daniel and Ann:  Mary in 1862 and Michael in 1863.  The date of Ann’s death is unknown, but Daniel Sr.’s Bible (now in the possession of Annie Lee King, Daniel’s granddaughter) states that Daniel married Fannie McCormack in 1871. The Bible lists three children born to them:  James, 1872; Mollie, 1874; and Annie, 1884.   Ann O’Connor Maloney was buried in the Millville Cemetery, as were Daniel in 1886 and Fannie in 1899.

 Thomas Maloney, Daniel and Ann’s son, married Stacy Wilkerson in 1881.  They lived with the Maloney’s and after Daniel’s death remained with Fannie until her death.   In 1901, approximately, Thomas moved from the old Maloney homestead near Mill Creek to a house he had built in the Motley community (present-day Oak Hill).  Thomas was a farmer.  His children were:  Charles and Lee (both died in infancy), John Thomas, Edna, Oscar, Harry, and James Monnie.

 James Monnie was born in 1894.  In 1915 he married Linnie Jewel Jimmerson, daughter of Bashie Ables and John Harvey Jimmerson of the Wood Glen community.  He bought land next to his father’s and farmed there.  Monnie and Linnie had one child:  James Douglas Maloney, born in 1919.  In 1940 J. D. married Dorothy Berry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Berry of Henderson.  Their children are:  Jerry Douglas, 1942; Sara Katherine, 1944; and Michael, 1946.  In 1944, J. D. entered the Army and received his basic training at Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas and Fort Riley, Kansas.  In 1945, he was shipped overseas to Seoul, Korea, where he was a truck and jeep driver.  Before being discharged in 1946, he attained the rank of sergeant.

 After returning home from the service, James Douglas went into business with his father, farming until about 1948 when he went to work for a construction company in Longview, where he remained until retirement in 1979.  In 1957 Monnie passed away.  In 1980 James Douglas passed away.  Both are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery.  Douglas’s wife, Dorothy, and mother, Linnie, still reside in the family home in Oak Hill.  All three children are married and reside in Oak Hill.  Jerry lives on the exact spot that his great grandfather Tom lived.  Jerry married Brenda Vidler in 1962.  They have two children, Karen Ann and Kimberly Nan.  In 1971 Jerry married Charlotte Johnson.  Michael married Sylvia Welch in 1966.  They have two children, Tasha Renee and Christie Ann.  In 1978 Michael married Beth Evans.  In 1966 Kathy married James B. Porter.  They have two children, Heather Gay and Erin Kathleen.

 Submitted by Kathy Porter