Margarite Rose Blish Mallette Rash 1895-1973



This is a picture I received today of my great grandmother from my newly found cousin. Since my mother did not have contact with her father or his side of the family after he and my grandmother divorced she never knew her grandmother or had any pictures of that side of the family. Margarite divorced my great grandfather John Paul Mallette. With the exception of my grandfather Lloyd George Mallette, their three girls were sent to live with other relatives. One of the girls Lenora Mae Mallette, a year older than Lloyd, was my cousin's grandmother. My grandfather stayed with my great grandfather, eventually they moved to California where my great grandfather remarried a divorcee with a daughter.

Gathering Puzzle Pieces

There is confusion about Hiram. Was he a Graham or a Wood? My great grand father Lester Garfield Graham (LGG)  refers to him being from the Graham side of the family in his memoirs.  However, the more I look into various resources I am wondering if he was really a Wood. In the 1830 Middletown, Delaware, New York Census there is listed Grove Graham, Benjamin Wood, and Hiram Wood [and a Hezekiah Wood and a Andrew Graham]. It shows there are only two people in the household, Hiram and a wife. This would match with LGG's account that Hiram was older than Benjamin and that he and his wife had no children when they left New York for Illinois together.  Could Hiram have been a cousin?  According to another distant cousin, it is believed Betsey had a brother named Benjamin and she and Grove gave this name to their son - my great great Grandfather Benjamin Nelson Graham.  Nothing definite here at the moment, just putting thoughts to electronic paper...kind of like thinking out loud....way out loud on the www. Who knows, maybe brainstorming and thinking out loud will spark a memory of some sort with someone else who can help with this road block.  I'm gathering puzzle pieces. Anyone with any other pieces out there?

Cousins

I just found a new cousin, Terry. Her grandmother, Lenora Mae Mallette, was my mother's aunt on her fathers side. She passed away 13 Mar 88. I have knocked down a portion of the road block to the Mallette side of my tree....more to come.