Mahala (McClain) Maddox (1783 - 1849)

Born 1783 in Bedford, Bedford, Virginia, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Posey Maddox — married 6 Dec 1802 in Bedford, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 1849 at about age 66 in Greene Township, Parke, Indiana, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Mahala was born in 1783. Mahala McClain ... She passed away in 1849.

When Mahala Haley McClain McLane was born in 1783, her father, John, was 33, and her mother, Rachel, was 23. She married Posey (David) Matticks Matickes Mattox on December 6, 1802, in Bedford, Virginia. They had 13 children in 27 years. She died in 1849 in Greene, Indiana, at the age of 66, and was buried in Parke, Indiana.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82339199/mahala-matickes : accessed 16 January 2022), memorial page for Mahala “Haley” McClain Matickes (unknown–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #82339199, citing Old Mount Moriah Cemetery, Parkeville, Parke County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Sheila (contributor 47788881) .

• "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989," database with images, (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Z4Y-W35R : 28 June 2022), Haley McClain in entry for Posey Mattox, 6 Dec 1802; citing Marriage, Bedford, Virginia, United States, Circuit court clerk offices, Virginia.

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SP2G-R86 : accessed 17 September 2019), entry for Mahala "Haley" /McCLAIN/; file (2:2:2:MMSP-W1H), submitted 10 May 2011.

Research

• From Mahala's FindAGrave biography:
  • "Mahala Matickes OR Maddox, Matticks, Mattox (take your pick:) Many folks at that time did not know how to read or write. Names were spelled like they sounded, so the surname evolved over time. We have known the surname as MATTOX, through the line of Posey's son, Alexander Reed Mattox, but other lines have chosen different spellings."