Thomas H. Malone

Thomas H. Malone was born in 1834 in Limestone County, Alabama. His father, James C. Malone, was a large planter. He clerked with Houston & Brown, a law firm in Nashville, and he was admitted to the state bar in 1859. ==Career==

Malone started his legal career with Houston, Vaughn & Malone in the early 1860s He subsequently served in the Confederate States Army, first under General Dabney H. Maury and then under General Joseph Wheeler. One of his students was Jacob M. Dickinson. Malone was a recipient of the Southern Cross of Honor from the Bate Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. ==Personal life==

Malone married Ellen Fall in 1866. They had two sons, Thomas H. Malone Jr. and Edward F. Malone, and two daughters, Jane (who married William T. MacGruder) and Julia. After she died in 1897, he married Milbrey Ewing Fall. Malone was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was also a Knight Templar. ==Death and legacy==

Malone died in 1906 in Nashville, Tennessee. Malone bequeathed his Honeywood Farm to his widow while his sons received stocks from the Nashville Gas Company. Moreover, one of his sons, Thomas H. Malone Jr., was elected to the Board of Directors of the Nashville Gas Company; he was also Assistant Professor at the Vanderbilt University Law School. ==References==