Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

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Mamie was born on February 20, 1883. She did not actually have a middle name and used the P. (for Pennington) as a middle initial. She was raised in the Pine Island community where the family lived in the old farm house on Betka road until she was fourteen and they moved into the house attached to the store and Prairie View postoffice.

Mamie and Harry Lee Milam were married on August 13, 1905 in Hempstead by O.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.

After Mamie finished high school, she attended business college in Mckinney Texas. After finishing school she worked as a postal clerk at the Pine Island Post Office. This experience and training served her well in later years when she scored higher on the Civil Service Examination for Post Master then all of the other applicants, including her brother James..

Harry died four years later in 1918 and she was able to raise the four children on her own. As late as 1930, along with the post office, Mamie was still keeping a small herd of milk cows for milk and butter, a chicken yard for meat and eggs, raised sun flowers and kafircorn for chicken feed and had two vegetable gardens.

Mamie was one of the more progressive citizens in the area, as she had gas lights installed in the new house and post office. Later she had electric lights long before power lines were brought to the area. She had a gasoline powered electric generator installed along with a system of glass storage batteries to furnish electric lights for the house and post office.

After the post office was merged with the Hempstead post office in 1938, she went to work as a clerk in the Waller County Court House. In 1940 she moved to a house that she owned in Hempstead and sold the old home place to A.W. Randall. In later years she moved to Houston, where she worked for the "Harris County Medical and Dental Bureau" until her eyes failed and she could no longer see to work.

Mamie died April 27, 1970 at the age of 87 and Harry Lee died on October 26, 1918 at the age of 36. Harry Lee and Mamie are both buried in the Pennington plot in the Hempstead, Texas cemetery.