Malinda Rebecca HILBURN

1820 - 1910  (89 years)

• Name	Malinda Rebecca HILBURN
  Born	19 Nov 1820	, Hickman, TN
  Gender	Female
  Census	1850	, Van Buren, AR
  Census	1860	, Van Buren, AR
  Census	1870	, Conway, AR
  Census	1880	, Conway, AR
  Census	1900	, Conway, AR
  Census	1910	, Conway, AR
  Name	Malinda Shackleford  [1]
  Died	25 Apr 1910
  Buried	Center Ridge, Conway, AR
  	Halbrook Cem
  Person ID	I2333	Burnett / Halbrook Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	Richard HILBURN,   b. 1793, , Newberry, SC ,   d. 29 Apr 1867, , Atascosa, TX  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth CAMPBELL,   b. 27 Aug 1795, , Fairfield, SC ,   d. Bef 1840, , Hickman, TN  (Age < 44 years)
  Married	26 Dec 1818	, Williamson, TN   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F672	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Erwin HALBROOK,   b. 9 Oct 1818, , Bedford, TN ,   d. 9 Jan 1897, , Conway, AR  (Age 78 years)
  Married	1836	Coon Creek, Perry, TN   [4]
  Children	+ 1. John Reynolds HALBROOK,   b. 8 Jul 1840, Perryville, Perry, TN ,   d. 18 Apr 1926, , Conway, AR  (Age 85 years) + 2. Elizabeth HALBROOK,   b. 1843, ,, TN ,   d. Aft 1890  (Age > 48 years) + 3. Sarah Judith HALBROOK,   b. 20 May 1847, Formosa, Van Buren, AR ,   d. 20 Oct 1923, , Conway, AR  (Age 76 years)   4. David HALBROOK,   b. Abt 1850,   d. Bef 1860  (Age ~ 9 years)  [] + 5. Jeremiah Thomas HALBROOK,   b. 15 Sep 1852, , Van Buren, AR ,   d. 4 Aug 1915  (Age 62 years)   6. Wiley Urijah HALBROOK,   b. 21 Mar 1854, Point Remove Creek, Van Buren, AR ,   d. 8 May 1904  (Age 50 years)   7. Sophie HALBROOK,   b. 1857, ,, AR ,   d. Abt 1878  (Age 21 years) + 8. Rebecca Malinda HALBROOK,   b. 18 Feb 1858, ,, AR ,   d. 17 Feb 1940, , Conway, AR  (Age 81 years)   9. ? HALBROOK  []   10. ? HALBROOK  []
  Last Modified	12 Feb 2019
  Family ID	F453	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1850 Van Buren Co AR Census - Red River Twp taken 30 Oct page 315 line 39 266 / 266 Halbrook, Joseph 31 TN farmer Malinda 29 TN John 9 TN Elizabeth 7 TN Sarah 3 AR next door living with George W and Sarah Wright is Daniel Halbrook 6months old born in AR 1860 Van Buren Co AR Census - Craig Twp taken 31 Jul by JB Lewis page 10 line 39 72 / 74 Halbrooks, JE 42 TN farmer $200 personal estate Malinda 40 TN John 20 TN laborer Sarah 12 AR Thomas 8 AR Wiley 6 AR Snthy 3 AR Rebecca 1 AR 1870 Conway AR, Lick Mountain Twp page 50 [3], line 7, 18/18 taken 29 Aug Holbrook, Joe 45 TN farmer Malinda 40 TN J Thomas 18 AR Wiley 16 AR Sopha 13 AR Rebecca 11 AR Williams, Elizabeth 24 AR domestic servant 1880 Conway Co AR - page 347A Halbrook, Joseph E 62 TN NC VA Malinda wife 60 TN unk AL Miles nephew 11 AR TN TN Martha Smith other 19 AR TN TN 1900 Conway Co AR Census - Lick Mountain Twp ED 8 Sheet 5 Line 52 taken in Jun by Ada C Halbrook Smithy, Sarah J May 1847 AR TN TN widow 5/7 kids Holloway, Thomas son Jan 1875 AR VA AR Holloway, Emily dau May 1882 AR VA AR Halbrook, Malindy mother Nov 1820 TN widow 6/10 kids 1910 Conway AR Census - Lick Mountain Twp taken 30 April by Walter O French ED 8 sheet 16a line 20 house 291 / 291 Honthee, Sarah head 64 AR TN TN widow Malinda Halbrook mother 89 TN TN TN widow living next door to Tom and Robt Holloway Taken from A School Man of the Ozarks by William E Halbrook; pages 168-169 "My Grandmother Halbrook taught her children to call her 'mother' and to us grandchildren she was 'Granny.' She was born Malinda Hilburn, the daughter of Richard Hilburn, and the maiden name of her mother was Campbell, pure Scotch. She was born in 1820 and married at the age of 16 on Coon Creek in Perry county, Tennessee. She could neither read nor write but was blessed with common sense. She was the least superstitious of any old person I ever knew. She was plain spoken, unsophisticated, devoted to her husband and her children, worked in the field, could plow oxen and use an axe. She carded, spun, and wove her own cloth, knitted the socks for the family, cooked her meals on the fireplace, garnered dried fruits and vegetables for the family's use, but never attempted to bake a cake, or pies. She was most sympathetic of all sufferers, attended on the sick in the neighborhood, treated them by brewing teas and concoctions from the common herbs. In her leisure she enjoyed smoking her pipe filled with pure raw home grown tobacco, never using any lighter and not even a match, but always lit her pipe with coals of fire that she picked up from the fireplace in summer as well as winter with an iron paddle that grandpap had made for her . She gave birth to ten children, seven lived to be grown and married. At the birth of every grandchild, of which she had 44, she would walk at her first opportunity -she never rode- and bring two yards of calico as a present for a dress to the new born. I can see granny now parching coffee. Drawing a few coals on to the hearthstone, she would set a skillet on them, pour into it the proper amount of coffee grains, then light her pipe. She would sit and smoke and stir at intervals with her long wooden paddle. When the proper rich dark brown color was effected she took it up. Or in the summer evenings she would sit under the shade of an apple tree in the front yard, lighting some chips that she had gathered from the woodyard, and parch where it was cooler. Granny had the neighborhood reputation as a brewer of coffee and just the blend fit for the epicures. She was a Primitive Baptist in belief, a sort of a fatalist, believing that the saving of souls was God's business. She never joined any church. She was the least childish of any old person I ever knew, lovely to the last. She patiently waited and hoped for the call of her Lord and died at the grand old age of 91." [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S35] Death Certificate, AR Cert # 197; Sarah Juda Smithee. [S256] TN Marriages to 1825, (ancestry.com). [S11] Daughters of the American Revolution, (dar.org), ancestor A018696 Richard Campbell, member 812566. [S5] A School Man of the Ozarks, William Erwin Halbrook, (The Press-Argus, Van Buren , AR Feb 1959), 168. [S5] A School Man of the Ozarks, William Erwin Halbrook, (The Press-Argus, Van Buren , AR Feb 1959), 168-169.