Interment source:
Bay View Cemetery Map, ca 1940
Map indicates two daughters buried next to William H. Maltby
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1. Explanation
A map of Old Bayview Cemetery has a notation marking part of the cemetery as an area for the burial of "daughters of W. H. Maltby". It may be that this reference is simply to the two daughters that are buried in Old Bayview Cemetery-Imogene "Emma" Maltby and Lucy Grace Maltby. Neither of these two daughters ever married, and they died relatively young. Lucy Grace died in 1904 and Emma in 1910. The other possibility is that this site designates plots that were initially reserved for their older sisters-Mary S. Maltby and Anna Margaret Maltby. Mary's middle initial probably stands for "Swift" as that was her mother's maiden name. Her mother, Mary Grace Swift, was W. H. Maltby's first wife who died in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1867 at less than 22 years old. William Maltby subsequently married Anna M. Headen, and her first daughter, Anna Margaret Maltby, is named for her. If this designation is meant to refer to plots for Lucy Grace and Imogene, then they are indeed used. However, if this designation is meant to refer to plots for Mary S. Maltby and her sister Anna Margaret Maltby, then these plots were not used by them most likely because a presentation from Lynn Ellen Lacy and Miss Marjorie Maltby notes that "Margaret (Anna Margaret) and Mary (Mary S.) are known to have gone to Los Angeles" (paper in archives of Corpus Christi Public Library with final notes dated April 1963 and attributed to Lynn Ellen Lacy). It seems that they spent their last years in that area and probably are buried in California. Since the widow Maltby (the former Anna M. Headen) is also not known to be buried in Old Bayview next to William H. Maltby, it may be that she joined her stepdaughter (Mary S. Maltby) and daughter (Anna "Margaret" Maltby) in Los Angeles and lived out her last years there.
Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell
2. Letter to the Editor
Selection from a letter to the editor by Eli T. Merriman
In the afternoon, I went to see the Maltby sisters, Mary and Marjorie, born and reared in Corpus Christi, finding them looking fine and doing well here in Los Angeles where they have resided for a considerable time. I enjoyed my visit with them very much. Their father, the late William H. Maltby, one of the brightest newspaper men and ready writers of his time in South Texas, was my associate in publishing the Corpus Christi Free Press which we launched there in 1877 and continued together until his death in 1880, after which I continued the publication until 1883, when I with two others, Carruthers and Williams, started the publication of the Corpus Christi Caller. The elder sister, Mary Maltby, left Corpus Christi many years ago for Eagle Pass, to accept a position in a railroad office, her sister joining her a short time after, both of them coming to Los Angeles some years ago, Marjorie still with the railroad company now.
Source: Corpus Christi Caller of 1 July 1937 on page 3B, column 1-2
Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell