Stephen B. Hallmark (abt. 1824 - 1863)

Born about 1824 in Village Springs, Alabama

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann (Morton) Hallmark — married 21 Oct 1844 in Marshall County, Alabama

Descendants

Died Jul 1863 at about age 39 in Blount County, Alabama, United States

Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1]

Census

Census:

Date: 1860

Place: Blount Co, AL

Note: Subdivision #1, page 931

Note

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/ancesters/MynattHallmark.htm This person was created through the import of MOR2003d.GED on 22 April 2011. STEPHEN4 HALLMARK (MYNATT3, GEORGE2, UNKNOWN1) was born Abt. 1824 , Blount Co.,AL, died July 1863, Blount Co., AL.  He married MARY ANN MORTON October 21, 1844, Marshall Co., AL.  She was born Abt. 1822, AL, and died 1863, Blount Co., AL. Notes for STEPHEN HALLMARK: Stephen was born in AL, presumeably in Blount Co.  He married Mary Ann Morton in neighboring Marshall Co., where his father-in-law, Wm. Morton Sr., cosigned the $200 bond required to obtain the license.  Note the close involvement between the Morton and Hallmark families.  Stephen's brother Calvin had married Mary Ann's sister Elizabeth a year earlier.  In 1828 Stephen's first cousin George W. Hallmark (Carter's son) married Mary Ann's sister Martha.  Another of Stephen's cousins, James Murphree Hallmark (Cummins's son) married Sarah Morton, daughter of Marshall Morton Jr., brother to Wm. Morton Sr.  Then Cummins Hallmark married for his third wife, Martha Morton Thomas,  a widow of Greenbury Thomas, and a sister to Sarah Morton who married his eldest son.  Stephen and Mary Ann had at least nine children, eight of which survived to adulthood.  Stephen, along w/brothers Asbury, Calvin, Richard Caswell and several cousins enlisted in the Confederate Army.  Stephen trained in AL at Talladega.  Stephen and George W.  served in Company C of the 28th Alabama Infantry.  Brother Calvin served in Company H. It is assumed that Stephen died during the War Between the States although we have no record of cause of death either from war injuries or disease.*   Stephen & Richard were both dead before their father's estate was settled in'65.  Stephen left $8,386 in Confederate dollars as well as land.  Mary Ann was apparently deceased before Stephen's will was probated as she is not mentioned.  Also neither Stephen or Mary Ann are mentioned in the will of Mynatt Hallmark, Stephen's father, but their children including minors, are included.

• There might be a clue in the death of several members of the family, both civilian and military, in the Forrest-Streight Raids that occurred beginning April 26, 1863 in Blount County, AL.  Or perhaps we are just seeing one of many examples of the consequencesds of war being fought literally in your own backyard.

Sources:  US Census 1830-1860 for Blount Co., AL; Marriage records from Blount & Marshall Co.; Probate Records for Mynatt & Stephen in Blount Co.; US Land Patents &Tax Records, Civil War Lists from AL from the National Archives or LDS Family History Center. The US General Land Office in Huntsville, AL has a record showing that Stephen Hallmark of Blount Co., AL purchased two hundred forty five acres of public lands on March 1, 1858.  A copy of a meal ticket from Talladega, AL, a confederate training facility, dated February 11-14, 1863 shows that he was in the Confederate Army.  The  fact that he is the father of William Asbury HALLMARK is best proven by an autobiographical statement given by William himself in Portrait and Biographical Records of OK.  Stephen and Mary Ann's family is enumerated by name on the 1850 and 1860 Blount County census.   That Stephen was a son of Mynatt is determined by the inclusion of  his and Mary Ann's  children in the will of his father and by deduction from the 1830 and 1840 Blount Co., AL censuses.  GKHJ1996 Notes for MARY ANN MORTON: The name of Mary Ann MORTON and Stephen HALLMARK as parents of William Asbury HALLMARK are given by William himself in his autobiographical article in The Portrait and Biography of Oklahoma, 1901, Chapman Publishing Co.  This is available in the Oklahoma Historical Society Library in Oklahoma City, OK as well as in the Family History Center of the LDS Library. Mary Ann is listed as a daughter of William M. MORTON in his will probated September 10, 1855 in Marshall Co., Alabama.  The heirs and spouses are listed.  Mary Ann's sister, Elizabeth married Stephen's brother, Calvin Ireland HALLMARK.  Her sister Martha married George W. HALLMARK, a cousin and son of Carter HALLMARK and Kiziah HUGHES. A second Martha MORTON, widow of Greenbury THOMAS, became the third wife of Cummings, Stephen's uncle.  This Martha is the daughter of Marshall MORTON Jr., son of Marshall MORTON Sr., brother to William MORTON, Mary Ann's father.   There is also a Sarah MORTON who married James Murphree HALLMARK, son of Cummings HALLMARK and his first wife, Kiziah MURPHREE.  This information comes from the census records of Blount County, AL and from Mrs. Ollie MORTON, 312 E. Sunset, Gadsden AL, with whom I corresponded in the early 1990's.   GKHJ1996   Children of STEPHEN HALLMARK and MARY MORTON are:  i. MARTHA5 HALLMARK, b. Abt. 1845, Blount Co., AL.  ii. MARY HALLMARK, b. Abt. 1846, Blount Co.,  AL; d. TX; m. (1) JIM BLACKBURN; m. (2) ELISHA HICKS, September 12, 1869, Blount Co., AL; d. August 31, 1873, Blount Co., AL - buried Massey Line Cemetery, Blount Co., AL. Notes for MARY HALLMARK: Source:  Blount Co. Census, Paul HENDERSON's Book 1994.  GKHJ1994    iii. NANCY HALLMARK, b. Abt. 1847, Blount Co.,  AL. Notes for NANCY HALLMARK: Source of this child is Paul HENDERSON's Book, 1994.  I did not find her on the 1850  or 1860 census.  She could have died as a baby.   GKHJ1994    iv. MANILA ELLENDER "ELLEN" HALLMARK, b. February 27, 1849, Blount Co.,  AL; d. April 03, 1898, Blount Co., AL - buried County Line Baptist Church, Blount Co., AL; m. SAMUEL HALL, February 02, 1865, Blount Co.,  AL; b. February 25, 1846, Blount Co.,  AL; d. November 01, 1928, Blount Co., AL - buried County Line Baptist Church, Blount Co., AL. Notes for MANILA ELLENDER "ELLEN" HALLMARK: Pleasant Site is in Franklin County, AL.   9. v. WILLIAM ASBURY HALLMARK, b. April 01, 1850, Blount Co., AL; d. November 26, 1910, Cleveland Co., OK.  vi. MARSHALL MINETTE HALLMARK, b. March 01, 1852, Blount Co., AL; d. July 1871, Blount Co. AL; m. MISSOURI PARALEA GURLEY, March 05, 1871, Blount Co., AL; b. November 13, 1851, AL; d. September 22, 1922, Blount Co. AL- bur. Bethelem Methodist Church Cemetery, Blount. Notes for MARSHALL MINETTE HALLMARK: Mynett was a minor in 1870 so he must have been no older than 17 years, according to his father's will. See Paul HENDERSON's 1994 book. GKHJ1994    vii. ISABELLA NEELY HALLMARK, b. 1854, Blount Co.,  AL; d. November 05, 1892, Baileyton, Fannin Co., TX; m. JAMES ELIJAH "LITTLE LIGE" SELF, February 07, 1873, Blount Co., AL; b. October 10, 1852, Blount Co.,  AL; d. March 12, 1942, Blount Co., AL - buried Remlap Cemetery, Blount Co., AL. Notes for ISABELLA NEELY HALLMARK: According to the SELF Heritage, she died of typhoid fever.  Her date of death was taken from this book, but not her date of birth.  On the 1860 she shows up as age 5, and on the 1880, she shows up as 28 after she is married.  I did not find her on the 1870 census.  On the probate record of her father, Stephen Hallmark's estate in 1866, she is shown as under 14.  Her brother Marshall is shown as over 14 and under 21.  This means that the birthdate shown for him as of 1852 seems to be correct and hers would be more correct with the 1854 date instead of the 1852 date deduced from her date from the census after her marriage.  GKHJ1996 Notes for JAMES ELIJAH "LITTLE LIGE" SELF: Elijah is buried in Remlap Cemetery, Blount County, AL, according to the SELF Heritage.  This book also reports his marriage date as 05FEB1872, but my records for the SELF and HALLMARK families reflect the date that I have entered above.    viii. LAVICY LENNY LOUISE HALLMARK, b. Abt. 1858, Blount Co., AL; d. bur. Massey Line Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL; m. W. C. HICKS, January 13, 1876, Blount Co., AL. Notes for LAVICY LENNY LOUISE HALLMARK: Source:  Blount Co. Census and Paul HENDERSON's 1994 book.  GKHJ1994    ix. EMORY RUFUS HALLMARK, b. June 1859, Blount Co.,  AL; d. bur. Hopewell Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL; m. NANCY HICKS, March 05, 1882, Blount Co., AL; d. bur. Hopewell Cemetery, Jefferson Co., AL. Notes for EMORY RUFUS HALLMARK: Source of Information include the Blount Co. records, and Paul HENDERSON's 1994 book.                                GKHJ1994

Sources

1. ↑ Hallmark-289 was created by Tom Greene through the import of wikihallmark012915a.ged on Jan 29, 2015.