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Note: Irene and Myrtle argued over whether or not Reno had a middle name. Irene insisted it was "Arthur". Myrtle disagreed, saying she never heard of such a thing. In his youth, he cut off part of his foot with an axe while chopping wood. He wore a special shoe modified to fit his foot. Posing for a photograph at 16, he crossed his legs to put that shoe behind the other. Reno was a small man with small hands. As an adult, Selton was larger than Reno. Reno was a calm, quiet man, who seldom raised his voice. Reno comforted Clyo when what she thought were women's cries from the woods and hollows behind their house frightened her at night. He told her "That's just an old wildcat." He whistled when he walked to stable to milk cows. Hay feed was raised into the loft, to be dropped down to the trough mangers along walls below. Clyo remembered the stable as being new. He built several outbuildings near the house. Grapevines covered the fence surrounding the garden. He had fruit trees in an orchard between the house and stable with apples, peaches, pears, plums, damsen (for preserves). He would take a wagon to Muhlenberg County to buy coal as winter came. He would leave home early one day and return late the next. He shoveled the coal from the wagon into the coal house through a hight opening made for the purpose. Anticipating guests for Christmas, Reno would go to the back porch and cut into the ice in the top of the rain barrel on the back porch to make room for Annie's kettle of boiled custard. When Christmas day came, he would go outside and yell "Merry Christmas" and "Hooray for Old Santy" across the fields to his neighbors. After his daughters married and everyone could not sit around the kitchen table, he built a long oak table from trees on the farm. It sat in the dining room next to the kitchen. Reno did not scold Clyo when she married Damon Boley. Both he an Annie were happy they had returned. Before his death, he made arrangments for a neighbor to raise crops on his farm for a share of the crops and income. Todd County Standard, February 7, 1929, page 5: MALLORY, Mr. Reno Mallory, died at his home near Elkton, September 12, with a complication of diseases. He had been in ill health for two years. Mr. Mallory was 51 years of age. He was a prosperous farmer and a man that will be greatly missed in his neighborhood. He is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Zenos (sic) ROGERS, (sic) and Mrs, Damon Boley, of near Elkton, and Mrs. Lawrence SHAMIL of Franklin, Ky.; two sons, Selton and Richard MALLORY. His wife also survives him. Funeral services were conducted at Providence Church by the Rev. PENICK of Cadiz, Ky. Interment was in PROVIDENCE CEMETERY. Clipping from the Todd Co. Standard: We want to extend to all our rel- atives and friends our heartfelt thanks in the recent illness death of our beloved father and husband. MRS. RENO MALLORY and Children.
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