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Subject: Re: James Willis vs. Elizabeth Willis
Date: 17 Aug 2005 15:22:39 -0600
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Surnames: Mallett, Begley, Anderson, Sizemore
Classification: Query
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John Begley and Solomon Sizemore were involved in quite a few suits. John Begley because guardian of the children of Levi Mallett and of Pleasant Begley. Begley misappropriated the pension money of the Mallett children (except for John Mallett), and the land of the Begley children. Begley used the money and land of the two sets of orphans to speculate on land in Hawkins County. Unfortunately, it didn't work out and it caught up with him. The Malletts and Begleys sued John Begley and others to get the assets back. The government investigator did not have kind words to say about John Begley, Solomon Sizemore or Nicholas Moneyhun.
The government documents clearly state that John Begley was the brother of Pleasant Begley and of Levi Mallett. So, that has been the mystery. Brother is used very loosely to mean things like brother in law and husband of a sister in law and so forth. So, a simple possibility is that Levi's father Peter Mallett was married in the 1830s or 1840s to a Sizemore or to a Begley or an in law of theirs. Alternately, it is possible that John Begley (or a brother) had a Mallett wife before Alcy Sizemore. But, Levi Mallett's brother William Jefferson Mallett married Joanna Anderson, stepdaughter of Swimpfield Anderson, who was reportedly the daughter of Stephen Anderson. So, he may be the in law of an in law of an in law, which could be construed loosely as a brother. Peter Mallett's widow Elizabeth was living in Claiborne County in 1850, but disappeared after than--remarried?
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