William Andrew Jackson Hallmark

1866 - 1951  (85 years)

• Name	William Andrew Jackson Hallmark
  Born	12 Jan 1866	Bell, Texas, United States
  Gender	Male
  AFN	404G-5B
  Died	17 Nov 1951	Valley Springs, Llano, Texas   [1]
  Buried	Bluffton, Llano, Texas, United States
  Person ID	I1846	Wagner-Thomas | Hallmark
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	James Minett Charles Pierson Hallmark,   b. 30 Oct 1827, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States ,   d. 5 May 1893, Kingsland, Llano, Texas, United States  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Sarah Rutherford Hodges,   b. 18 Aug 1831, Texas, United States ,   d. 22 Jan 1876, Limestone, Texas, United States  (Age 44 years)
  Married	Bef 1850	Bastrop, Texas, United States
  Family ID	F564	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lydia Ann Parthena Collins,   b. 13 Feb 1870, Texas, United States ,   d. 27 Jun 1896  (Age 26 years)
  Married	21 Jan 1886	Llano, Texas, United States
  Children	+ 1. Pierson Dillon Hallmark,   b. 10 Apr 1887, Bluffton, Llano, Texas, United States ,   d. 15 Oct 1971, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States  (Age 84 years) + 2. David Jackson Hallmark,   b. 21 Sep 1889, Texas, United States ,   d. 24 Mar 1958  (Age 68 years)   3. Lela Hallmark,   b. 10 Sep 1891, Texas, United States ,   d. 7 May 1893  (Age 1 years)   4. Athena Izora Hallmark,   b. 1892, Texas, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Effie Hallmark,   b. 16 May 1893, Texas, United States ,   d. 26 Nov 1900, Texas, United States  (Age 7 years)   6. Hettie Hallmark,   b. 1895, prob Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F586	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Belle Long,   b. 11 Jul 1876, Llano, Texas, United States ,   d. 27 Aug 1965, Brownwood, Brown, Texas, United States  (Age 89 years)
  Married	10 Aug 1899	Llano, Texas, United States
  Children	+ 1. William Raymond Hallmark,   b. 25 May 1900, Bluffton, Llano, Texas, United States ,   d. 28 Jan 1925, California, United States  (Age 24 years) + 2. Lillian R Hallmark,   b. 25 Dec 1902, prob Llano, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F587	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 12 Jan 1866 - Bell, Texas, United States Married - 21 Jan 1886 - Llano, Texas, United States Married - 10 Aug 1899 - Llano, Texas, United States Buried - - Bluffton, Llano, Texas, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		William Andrew Jackson Hallmark and his 2nd wife Molly Long; Pierson, David, William Raymond, and Lillian
  		The 8 sons of James Minett Charles Pierson Hallmark and Sarah Rutherford Hodges (2 daughters are not pictured) Back: William Jackson, Jasper Minet, Richard Edmond, Jacob Newton; Front:John Booker, Linzey Dee, James Isaac, Benjamin Thomas

  
  

• Notes

  1866 BIRTH: TX,Bell Co: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark born 12 January 1866 BIR,MG,CENSUS: 1880 Limestone Co TX census: Jack 16/TX; Molly Long, wife #2: Known as Jack !BIR,MG,DTH: Paul W Henderson (0,6,8,8); tombstone-Bluffton Cem - 1951 1870 CENSUS: To get 1880 CENSUS: TX, Limestone Co,ED 92: Anc.com img 11, pg 288, 7 June,Dw 123/137: Jack Hallmark 16/TX (Al,AL), son of James and Evalin Hallmark 1886 MARRIAGE #1: TX,Llano Co: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark md Lydia Ann Parthena Collins 21 Jan 1886 1899 MARRIAGE #2: TX,Llano Co: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark md Mollie B Long 10 Aug 1899 [what was 14 Aug 1899 written in notes on William Jackson page?] 1900 CENSUS: TX,Llano Co: June, Dw 206,206: HALLMARK, William J 34/TX born Jan 1866 (TX,TX) md 0yrs, own farm-farmer; Mary B 23/TX born Jul 1876 (AL,AL)md-no occupation; William B [R?] 11/12-TX bn May 1900; Piercen D 13/TX bn Apr 1887; David N 10/TX bn Sept 1889; Effie 7/TX bn May 1893. 1910 CENSUS: TX,Llano Co-Prec 16,Long Mtn: A/c Img 1 pg 16A,dwelling 90,94: HALLMARK, William J-head 44/TX (US,US) md 2nd X-10yrs, gen farmer- own farm; Mollie-wife 34/TX (US,US) md 2nd X-10yrs 2/2 children living, farm labor-home farm; Raymon-son 9/TX (TX,TX) farm laborer, home farm; Lillian R-dau 7/TX, no occ; Rue A Long- mother-in-law 59/TX (US,US) widow 4/5 children living, no occ. 1919 HISTORY: TX,Llano Co: Jack retired from the farm and rented out the land. 1920-1940 CENSUS: To get 1951 DEATH: TX Llano Co-Valley Springs: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark died 17 November 1951; buried Bluffton, Llano Co Texas Leatha Richardson: 17 Nov 1952. NOTES: Molly 1962: "Jack was md to Athena Collins (sis to Hettie Jane-md to Linzy Dee Hallmark). Molly Long md Wm Jackson (Jack) 10 Aug 1899. Valley Springs his home. Izora's letter 31 Jan 1965: Wm Jackson bn Bastrop Co TX. Fam group sheet from Leatha Richardson (memory of James Isaac Hallmark, dated 20 Jan 1977: 12 Jan 1865 as birth. Wife called Thenia, Athene. Wm Andrew Jackson on Ancestral File, 1966 on tombstone and 1951 dd on tombstone. "Jack" lived in Broncho, Texas April 13, 1963 visit with Molly and Izora McGinty [first child of Jacob Newton, who was 3rd child of James Minett Hallmark. Visited at home of Lindsay Allen Jackson Hallmark and as visited gravesites with them-Llano County. Mollie is the second wife of William Jackson. She quilted 37 quilts while living 7 years before Lake Buchanon was moved. When the 8 brothers got together, they needed lots of quilts. Jack and Mollie retired from the farm in 1919. They thought they had done their part, so they quit and rented out the land. Near Buchanon, they were told to get out... not asked to, told to. One farm had 85 acres and the other 45 acres and were along the river. They had Pecan timber near the river. 1917 was the dry year and 1918 was pitiful. In 1919 they had a bumper crop so quit. William Jackson, called Jack, would keep the seed. He gave half the cotton to Piercen and David [2 oldest of Jack and Athena]. Mollie worked in the fields, dropping corn and cotton by hand. When started failing, gave the business to Mollie. After quitting put $4000 in the bank for when it might fail, and when Jack failed, she did all she could with what they had. Never had to worry. Jack put away on Sunday, but enough to pay for funeral expenses, etc. Has money in war bonds to help her when sick. When he was out in the field, Mollie took him a drink and said, "let me see if I can turn the plow to break the land." She couldn't hold the plow out, would let go... it was too deep; chopped cotton, gathered corn and threw in wagon. Mollie's mother was cold, so heated a rock and put it in her bed. Mollie wore wool socks and sleeps between blankets only, no sheets. Her mother lived with her for a few years. Would start about 3pm to fix her bed. Molly now understands why - it was something to do. Jack and Mollie had a span of mules which they kept on the lot all of the time - mules want to run away when hook them up. They were throwing corn one day, holding the mules -thought they would not want to go after 2/3 wagon was full, so hooked them up and off they went... hit a tree and turned the whole wagon over. Had to work hard at Jack's. Our mules, "Tom and Mike" took off one day... chased them. Both Jack and Molly tried to hold them and both kids in the back popped up to see the chase. They hit a tree and stopped. Lillian, Piercen and Raymond hit their heads. Raymond cut a place on his head, but all he was worried about was if they were going to go to Jake's. Lillian wasn't more than 6 years old and awful sick from it. The mules always ran when they were out, because always locked up when not working. Finally sold them to Tom Clendennen. He really broke them by whipping them. Jack didn't whip them, but they didn't get out in the pasture for a year at a time. We fed them hay or corn and when we needed them, they were anxious to get out and work. Jack and Molly bought a place right in front of the school in Tow. We lived there for 8 years. We lot the place on the Llano side before they moved the lake. Kept the kids and sent them to school. Some people lived too far from school to come, so Molly kept them - sometimes for 3 yrs. Kept Dee's and Hett's [Lindsay and Hettie] children 3yrs or so. Kept Piercen's boy, and Oscar, Lindsay's boy, and girl 2 1/2, Amy for 2yrs. Cricket didn't want to go to school. The first of the year was free and the second semester, they had to pay. One of the girls called Molly and said, "I guess I can't go to school because Daddy wouldn't have the money to pay the tuition." Molly told her to come and stay with her, and she paid for it. Jack and Molly moved from Burnett to Valley Springs and had an old wood stove and drew water with a bucket. She sold her washer and did washing by hand. She didn't have any place to keep her machine in Burnett and one day the kids said why not sell it. She gave it away and now they ask why she did it. Jack and Molly lived in the house where Gladys [Vonnie's wife, 6th child of Jacob Newton] lives now. Molly tried driving a car once - asked Jack if she could, so she got in and drove it almost into a tree, and that was the last of her driving. When Lake Buchanon flooded, they had to move 600 or more graves. Pennington Cemetery has 12-15 Hallmarks buried there... James Minett too and 2 babies by first wife... 6 children. [we only have 7 names of Hallmarks buried there where are the others? babies, children?] So many people didn't want them to move the cemetery... wanted to put a cement wall around it, but this wouldn't work. The Hallmarks asked to have the bodies moved right away. People were paid too little for the land that was taken. The Hallmarks were living along the river, and the state just came and took it. It had a huge Pecan orchard [45 acres]... had all the fish they wanted to eat... can't catch any there now. Caught some as big as 60-75 pounds, some by hand [Jack]... one hung from the shoulder to the ground... could see it in the water and as the water cleared, just reached in under the gills and pulled it out. Jack liked his cold fish... cooked up first, then put it in flour sacks and eat it cold. Molly got tired of it. "I just couldn't take it." Catfish is good cold. Lake Buchanon... had to move 6 cemeteries when building the dam. Bought new boxes for each body. Some bodies were there many years and had to be scooped up... darkened dirt... and put in casket. Jack lived in Valley Springs before moved to Burnett.

  
  

• Sources

  [S422] Internet: Ancestry.com. William J Hallmark died Llano County, Texas 11-17-1951 Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 #58519