Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

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The first son of William Jonas, Harry Lee was born in Weimer, Texas on February 24, 1882 and lived there until he was about 10 or 11 years old before moving to Pine Island. He and Mamie Pennington were married on August 13, 1905 in Hempstead by Oscar M. Smith. Harry and Mamie had four children, Frankie Lee, Mamie Lucille, Chalista Jane and Harry LeGrande.

They were living in Reagan, Texas (Falls County) when Frankie was born, but had moved back to Pine Island before the other children were born. They lived in the old original Milam home on Betka road for awhile after returning to Pine Island. Later they lived at the old Keeler/Wallgast place, on Cochran road where he farmed for awhile.

They moved in with Mamie's mother after John Wesley Pennington, her husband, died to help run the house, store, farm and post office. Harry Lee carried the mail for the Prairie View post office where his mother in law, Francis Pennington and later his wife, Mamie were the postmistress. He also served as a Trustee on the Pine Island School Board and was one of the designers of the new two room Pine Island schoolhouse, that was built east of the Pine Island church on Brumlow Road, and opened in 1919 after his death. It replaced the old school that was at the intersection of Betka Rd and Brumlow Rd. He was also an active member of the Woodmen Of The World. His devotion to his work at the post office was what killed him.

He, along with many people in the winter of 1918 - 1919, became a victim of the influenza epidemic. Just as he begin to recover, an early cold wet norther hit Waller county. That evening at train time he began to worry about the mail pickup.

In those days, all of the trains didn't stop at the depot and the mail sack was suspended on a pole beside the railroad track. A strap tightened the sack in the middle, dividing the sack into two separate pouches A steel hook was extended from the train's mail car, would catch the sack, in the middle as the train raced past and the attendant would pull it into the train. A wonderful system, except that sometime the train rocked at the wrong moment and the hook hit one end instead of the middle of the mail sack and only knocked it off the pole and a considerable way down the tracks.

One of Harry Lee's duties was hanging the mail sack on the pole. He was worrying whether the mail sack had been hung correctly by his replacement, as he got out of bed and stood in the open front door waiting for the train to pass so he would be sure the mail sack was picked up. The door was on the north side of the house and that short exposure to the fresh norther was enough to cause him to relapse and go into the pneumonia that killed him.

A few of you may have noticed that his son Harry Wesley was called Harry LeGrande above. That's another story. LeGrande was his original middle name. He was so named for Doctor LeGrande, who delivered him. Doctor LeGrande was also the doctor who was taking care of Harry Lee when he died. Thereafter Harry LeGrande was known as Harry Wesley. Harry Lee died on October 26, 1918 at the age of 36 and Mamie died April 27, 1970 at the age of 87. Harry Lee and Mamie are both buried in the Pennington plot in the Hempstead, Texas cemetery.