Ann Patton Malone

{{for|the Coronation Street character|Anne Malone}} '''Ann Patton Malone''' (''fl.'' 1969–2018) is a historian and educator focused on the Reconstruction Era<ref name="SGE 3" /> and the Louisiana plantation systems.<ref name="NPS" /> Also known as '''Ann Patton Baenziger Malone''',<ref name="WMR" /> she married Roger Baenziger in the 1950s.<ref name="SGE 2" />

==Career== Malone attended Southwest Texas State University, where her master's thesis was ''Bold Beginnings: The Radical Program in Texas, 1870-1873'' (1970).<ref>{{cite thesis | first1=Ann Patton |last1=Baenziger |title=Bold Beginnings: The Radical Program in Texas, 1870-1873 |type=Master's |publisher= Southwest Texas State University | year=1970}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Baenziger |first=Ann Patton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uuc9OAAACAAJ |title=Bold Beginnings: The Radical Program in Texas, 1870-1873 |date=1970 |publisher=Southwest Texas State University |language=en}}</ref> Malone studied history of the Reconstruction era for five years.<ref name="SGE 3" />

She began teaching American History at Southwest Texas State University around 1967. By 1969, she had written several scholarly articles about the Reconstruction era.<ref name="SGE 3">{{Cite news |date=31 Jul 1969 |language=en |pages=23 |work=The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise |title=More KKK|via= Newspapers.com |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/14429515/?terms=%2522Ann%2520Patton%2522%2520Seguin&match=1 |access-date=2022-04-14}}</ref> She wrote ''The Texas State Police during Reconstruction: A Reexamination'' (April 1969)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=John G. |date=February 10, 2021 |title=State Police |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/state-police |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Texas State Historical Association}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baenziger |first=Ann Patton |date=April 1969 |title=The Texas State Police during Reconstruction: A Reexamination |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30236541 |journal=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=470–491 |jstor=30236541 |issn=0038-478X}}</ref>{{efn|She was a descendant of Thomas Patton, a Texas State Police sergeant.<ref name="Parsons">{{Cite book |last=Parsons |first=Chuck |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRhSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213 |title=Captain Jack Helm: A Victim of Texas Reconstruction Violence |date=2018-03-15 |publisher=University of North Texas Press |isbn=978-1-57441-726-5 |pages=213 |language=en}}</ref>}} about the positive contributions that the state police made to combat violence during the reconstruction in Texas (1865–1899).<ref>{{cite book| title=The Governor's Hounds | chapter=Acknowledgements | first1=Barry A. |last1= Crouch |first2=Donaly E. |last2=Brice | publisher=University of Texas Press | doi=10.7560/726796-001 |year=2021 | pages=ix-xiv | isbn=9780292735385 | s2cid=244152393 }}</ref> Prior to her article, the State Police had a bad reputation for their role after the American Civil War. The state police supported local law enforcement, who were not equipped to manage the level of violence throughout Texas, as needed to suppress crime.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2, 2011 |title=The Governor's Hounds The Texas State Police, 1870–1873 By Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice |url=https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/crogov |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=University of Texas Press |language=en}}</ref> Malone stated that, "Considerable evidence indicates that most of the unpopularity of the State Police was due to its racial composition and political association… The hostility toward the force was, for the most part, an expression of conservative resentment of Negro and Radical domination."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Borders |first=Gary B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOgSIKTLm0gC&pg=PA25 |title=A Hanging in Nacogdoches: Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870–1916 |date=2010-01-01 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-78316-4 |page=25}}</ref> She found that the racial composition of the group was 40% Blacks and 60% Whites.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Alexander |first1=Bob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDAtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA540 |title=Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy |last2=Brice |first2=Donaly E. |date=2017-07-15 |publisher=University of North Texas Press |isbn=978-1-57441-691-6 |pages=540}}</ref>

In 1971, she received the Martha Washington Award for her work for the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission as a Research Historian.<ref name="SGA" /> The Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution presented the award.<ref name="SGA">{{Cite news |date=1971-08-19 |title=Mrs. Ann Baenziger |pages=24 |work=The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99724106/mrs-ann-baenziger/ |access-date=2022-04-14}}</ref>

She was among the faculty of the Social Science Department of Northwestern State University<ref name="NPS" /> and the Illinois State University.<ref name="UNCP">{{Cite web |title=Sweet Chariot by Ann Patton Malone |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780807845905/sweet-chariot/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=University of North Carolina Press |language=en-US}}</ref> Malone was a leader in the ethnographic study of the Magnolia Plantation, which is part of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park.<ref name="NPS">{{Cite web |title=NPS Archeology Program: Ethnography of Magnolia Plantation |url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/archeology/index.htm |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=National Park Service}}</ref>

She authored the book ''Women on the Texas Frontier: A Cross-Cultural Perspective'' (1983).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Malone |first=Ann Patton |title=Women on the Texas Frontier: A Cross-Cultural Perspective|publisher= Texas Western Press |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-87404-130-9}}</ref> She wrote ''Sweet Chariot'' (1992) about households and families of enslaved people in the 19th century, based upon the research of 155 slave communities located in Louisiana.<ref name="UNCP" /><ref name="SC Review" /> The study leveraged techniques developed by Peter Laslett in the study of pre-industrial English households and families.<ref name="SC Review">{{Cite journal |title=Review of Books: Sweet Chariot |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/99/2/658/98032 |last1=Winch |first1=July|journal=The American Historical Review |date=April 1994 | volume=99 |issue=2 | pages=658–659 | doi=10.1086/ahr/99.2.658-a|access-date=2022-04-12 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Personal life== She was the daughter of Emmitt Patton, a Texas rancher.<ref name="Turner">{{Cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Patty Newman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrw6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25 |title=Joseph and Rachel Rabb Newman, an Old Three Hundred Family of Texas, and Their Descendants |last2=Newman |first2=George |last3=Wauer |first3=Betty Newman |date=1998 |publisher=P.N. Turner |page=25}}</ref><ref>{{citation| title=Emmitt H. Patton, died April 9, 1972 | work=Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Death Certificates, 1903–1982 |location= Austin, Texas }}</ref> She wrote and illustrated ''The Patton Family''.<ref name="Turner" />

By 1962, Malone and Roger Baenziger had three children: Bart, Julie, and Jeff.<ref name="SGE 2">{{Cite news |date=1962-04-18 |title=Baenziger's New Partner |pages=11 |work=The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99724839/baenzigers-new-partner/ |access-date=2022-04-14}}</ref> She lived in Natchitoches, Louisiana by 1994.<ref name="WMR">{{Cite news |date=1994-07-20 |title=Family gathers for Wille-Magen reunion |pages=9 |work=The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99635761/family-gathers-for-wille-magen-reunion/ |access-date=2022-04-12}}</ref> By 2018, she was Ann Patton Rose.<ref name="Parsons" />

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