Maylee-Thompson-Kallenbach...

​(Printed in THE MILLER COUNTY AUTOGRAM-SENTINEL in the column, 'WINDOW TO THE PAST', March 24, 2011)

​Hattie J. Maylee was born 18 Oct 1865 near Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents (names not found) came to America when Hattie was an infant. They first settled in Chicago, Illinois; moved later to Hannibal, MO and finally came to Miller County in the late 1870s.

In the census of 1880, Hattie and her two brothers, John and Franklin, were living in Tuscumbia and each were in different homes working as servants…John Maly/Maylee (b. c/1855) lived with the Henry Barnhart family; Franklin/Frank (1868-1931) lived with the Ira T. Johnson family and Hattie, age 17, was a servant in the home of Theodore Robinson, an attorney. I believe there was a fourth Maylee child…Barbara who married John Kolofa in Miller County 10 Feb 1880.

On Nov. 20, 1881, Hattie married John Robert Thompson, a son of Page and Mary Thompson. Their marriage was performed by Luke E. Melton, a minister of the gospel. John Thompson was born 8 Mar 1861 and died at the age of 25 years on November 15, 1886. Before his death, he and Hattie became parents of three children:
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1. Ida Thompson 1882-1965 m. Hugh M. Atwell 1908
2. Frank L. Thompson 1884-1946 m. Stella Blackburn 1911
3. Charles C. Thompson 1884-____m._____________

​(Note: Charles & Frank were twins. Charles lived in Portland, Oregon when his Mother died in 1934.)

On October 28, 1894, Hattie married her second husband, John Edward Kallenbach, son of Valentine and Mary M. Kallenbach, natives of Saxony, Germany. Rev. Edmund Wilkes performed the ceremony for John and Hattie. They were the first couple married in the new Christian Church in Tuscumbia in 1894.

In the 1900 census of Miller County, Hattie and John were living in the village of Tuscumbia. In their home were six children (3 were Thompson children and 3 were Kallenbach). The neighbors of the Kallenbachs in 1900 were Walter Goodrich, James P. Wright, James Tomson, Samuel Adcock, Dr. James McGee, Dr. Kouns, and Arthur Small.

Hattie and John Kallenbach had six children:
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1. Leonard E. Kallenbach
2. Dewey Edward Kallenbach
3. Joseph E. Kallenbach
4. Halley Kallenbach (1897-1897)
5. Hattie Kallenbach (Mrs. C. E. Fendorf)
6. Alma Kallenbach (Mrs. Asa Mayfield)

Hattie J. Maylee-Thompson-Kallenbach died at the age of 69 years on April 30,1934. She was survived by her husband, John (he died in 1960), eight children, nine grandchildren, one great grandchild and a half-brother, John Maylee. Her brother, Frank Maylee, preceded her death in 1931.

She was a charter member of the Tuscumbia Christian Church where her funeral was held in 1934, conducted by Rev. S. A. Crouch. She was buried at Tuscumbia Cemetery. Both her husbands are buried in Tuscumbia Cemetery as well.

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