Otis Albert Mallory ¹

  General Notes:

Sources: Family records. Birth certificates. Obiturary clippings.
A birth record in the family bible show Otis being born in a slightly different location than that of his birth certificate. Willis Gulch was very close to Central City, Colorado. Bible records prevail here. Wedding announcements in the Rifle and another newspaper. Marriage license and certificate. Rifle newspaper "Telegram-Reveille" - a June 29, 1917 article.

Otis was a former field man for Holly Sugar Co. in Colorado, U.S.A. He died as a consequence of a heart attack while he was hunting deer in the Rifle, Colorado, area. Otis was buried in the same cemetery as was his father, mother, and infant son, Gene, and his older son, Marlin. Otis died at Porter's hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. His burial was handled by the Sayre Funeral Home of Rifle, Colorado. The heart attack took place on Monday morning while hunting. Otis was and received full Masonic honors at his services.

While in the Rifle area, Otis received his World War I draft number, No. 494. He registered in precinct No. 12 (Antlers) on June 5, 1917. He was farming for himself in Antlers, Garfield County, Colorado. He was supporting his wife, child, and father. He was a member of the Hesperia Masonic Lodge No. 120. He was a thoughtful man, who one day, as recorded in the Rifle "Telegram-Reveille" (Aug 17, 1917), cut his neighbor's, Mr. C. G. Miller, grain so Mr. Miller could visit his relations in Rifle.

Otis spent his childhood in the Antlers [no longer exists] and Rifle, Colorado, communities. He and his family moved to Loma, CO in 1925, living there for five years while Otis was employed as a Holly Sugar company fieldman. They then returned to Rifle where he was engaged in farming/ranching. In the year 1935, he and his wife moved to Brea, CA. Otis was there employed as a machinist.

At the time of his death, he and his wife, Mattie, along with their son, Clayton and his wife had come to Rifle, CO to visit relatives and to enjoy the hunting season. He was a member of the First Christian Church in Brea, California. and of the Rifle Masonic Lodge No. 129, A. F. and A. M.

Otis and Mattie were married in the home of Mattie's parents. The ceremony was performed in the presence of relatives only at the traditional hour of "high noon". The ceremony was performed by a Methodist minister, E. N.
Mallery. The witnesses were Annie Mallory and Mary E. Blackmore.

Otis (wedding announcement documentation) was a young man whose temperate habits, thrift and congenial ways have won him a host of friends. Everyone had good words for him and no commendable word for him was misplaced. After the wedding, Otis and Mattie started housekeeping near the mouth of Mamm creek.

While living in Brea, California, Otis and Mattie lived at 110 S. Madrona.

Inspired by the Bible, Romans 8:28, Otis wrote the following...

For every pain that we must bear,
For every sorrow, every care,
There is a reason.
For every falsehood that is said,
For every tear drop that is shed,
There is a reason.
For every grief, for every trial,
For every weary, lonely mile,
There is a reason.
But if we trust Him as we should,
All will work out for our good,
God knows the reason.

  Additional Information:

• Alt. Birth: Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado. ⁴

Otis married Mattie Hazel Blackmore on 26 Jul 1914 in Rifle, Garfield County, Colorado. (Mattie Hazel Blackmore was born on 4 Feb 1893 in Colby, Thomas County, Kansas,¹ died on 4 Jan 1958 in Santa Ana, Orange County, California ¹ and was buried in Loma Vista cemetery, Fullerton, Orange County, California ¹.)