My great-grandmother Hettie Mallory Crow was born and raised in the "Mallory place," the white house just across the road from Mallory Cemetary. According to her, when she was eight years old there was a cholera epidemic on the river. (I don't remember the name of he town, but can look it up. It wasn't Grandview.) As she lay in bed at night, she would hear the wagons creaking up the road carrying the bodies from town. The activity frightened her and she would hide deep under the covers so that the cholera wouldn't "get" her. Each morning when she awoke, she would see a fresh trench of black dirt against the white snow where they had buried the bodies. This is why Mallory Cemetary has the open expanse near the center. Hettie was born 19 September 1858 and died in 1948 at the age of 89, so her story is only one generation removed. If she was eight years old, that would place the epidemic during the winter of 1864-5. Vicki Crow Via