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VALENTINE R. MALLORY was born December 16, 1798, near Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was at the battle of the river Thames. Nancy Dawson was born September 20, 1802, in Fairfax county, Virginia, and in 1804, was taken by her parents to Bracken county, Kentucky. V. R. Mallory and Nancy Dawson were there married June 28, 1821. They had three children, and in March, 1827, united with the Baptist Church. They moved, in company with her brother John Dawson, (see his name) to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving October 22, 1827, in what is now Clear Lake township.