Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
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THOMAS PATRICK MULLINS, SENIOR
Introductory:
The Dictionary of American
Family Names gives the following information about the Mullins name “Mullin,
Maolan, (Dim. of Maol,-Bald) ONE WHO CAME
FROM Maulins, or Moulines, (Mills) the name of several places in France:
one who ground grain, a miller.”
American Surnames, p. 300;
Estimates as to number of persons bearing the name Mullins, as 55,200. “The
Mullins in Ireland was known for their bald heads.”
If you had been present to
read the passenger list of the good ship “Mayflower” when it discharged its
passengers at Plymouth Rock, a part of Massachusetts Bay, December 21, 1620,
you would have found the name of William Mullins among the male passengers, and
the name of his wife and their two
children, Joseph and Priscilla, on another list. A son, William Jr., and a daughter, Sarah, children of his
deceased wife remained in England. It
seems this son came to America later.
William Mullins was the eighth person to sign the MAYFLOWER PACT, which
was a covenant entered into and signed by leaders of the colonists. It contained some basic rules and guiding
principles to guide them in the government of the colony they expected to
establish in the New World which was to be their home.
Priscilla Mullins Alden,
est. 1602 – 1680
The first year in the New World was a year of hardships for the new colonists. Many of their number had died. During the 2nd year after their arrival William and his wife, and their son Joseph, died of the plague. Their daughter, Priscilla, survived. She proved her ability to think and to take care of herself when it came to making important decisions. She proved this when John Alden, a young man about twenty-one years old, came, ostensibly to speak for Miles Standish who was about forty years old, who desired the hand of Priscilla in marriage. In the midst of his plea for Standish, Priscilla interrupted him by saying, “Why don’t you speak for yourself John?” Hearing these words, John Alden at once substituted his name for that of Miles Standish. John and Priscilla were duly married. He contributed much to the work of the colony, and the two of them together added to the population of the colony with their twelve children.
In 1621 Morgan Mullins,[1] brother of William Mullins,
came to America. Evidently seeing that
Priscilla, his niece, was well taken care of, he set out to establish his own
family in America. Not many details are
available about this Morgan Mullins. It
seems that he was a Methodist minister.
However, we do not know his age, or where he first settled in the New
World, neither do we know the name of his first descendants.
Morgan Mullins, born
about 1800
The first one that we have any information about is a great,
great, great grandson by the name of Morgan Mullins, who was born in Tennessee.[2] His wife was also born in Tennessee, and we know that one son,
Thomas Patrick was also born in Tennessee, November 2, 1836. We also know that this Morgan Mullins was a
Methodist minister. We do not know when
they came to Texas, or where they first settled, or where the father lived. We
do know that he had one daughter by the name of Margaret Mullins, who is
mentioned in the History of Young County in these words, “George T. Hunter
married Margaret Mullins, daughter of Morgan Mullins, Methodist Minister, in
1858, as the 2nd marriage in Palo Pinto County. We also know that he had another
daughter by the name of Lynn, [3] who married Sam Peveler,
but no mention is made as to where she or her father lived. Sam Peveler was the son of David Peveler, and a
brother of Uncle
Franz Peveler, both well known settlers of Hood County.
Left: Thomas Patrick
Mullins Sr.
with his cousin, Lewis J.
Peveler Sr.
We first hear of Thomas
Patrick Mullins in Texas as living at Whitney, Texas, where he was married to
Nannie Elizabeth Terrell, January 11, 1867.
Their first child, Edward, was born in Whitney, Texas, December 25, 1868. The family moved to Granbury, Texas, Hood
County, in the early 1870’s. They first lived on West Pearl Street, across the
street, almost opposite from what is now known as the Mullins place, at 1030 W.
Pearl, where Alleene Mullins, [4] daughter of Sam Mullins now
lives.
Mullins Home at 1030 West
Pearl in Granbury; Standing – Sweetie Mullins.
The house was built by
Edward Barry Mullins in the late 1890’s.
Mr. Mullins was a farmer,
did some freighting, and carried the mail between Granbury and Lipan for a
number of years.
Thomas Patrick Mullins Sr., 1836 - 1892
Into the home of Thomas
Patrick and Nannie Terrell Mullins were born the following children:
1.
Edward
Barry Mullins, born December 25, 1868 in Whitney, Texas; died November 29, 1912
in Wagoner, Oklahoma.
2.
George
M. Mullins, born August 08, 1870 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died November
26, 1870 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
3.
Lula
Mullins, born November 06, 1871 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died November
09, 1877 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
4.
Samuel
Patrick Mullins, born April 08, 1873; died Sept. 29, 1964 in Granbury, Hood
County, Texas.
5.
Anne
Elisabeth (Bessie) Mullins, born November 21, 1874 in Granbury, Hood County,
Texas; died February 20, 1910 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
6.
Thomas
Patrick Mullins, Jr., born March 14, 1876; died July 25, 1946 in Granbury, Hood
County, Texas.
7.
Sweetie
Mullins, born July 12, 1878; died July 03, 1910.
8.
Eudorah
(Dora) Alice Mullins, born May 25, 1879; died August 20, 1985.
9.
David
T. Mullins, born May 04, 1881; died January 28, 1882.
10. Johnnie W. Mullins, born
August 27, 1884 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died January 03, 1978 in Los
Angeles, California.
11. Joseph Anderson Mullins,
born March 08, 1886; died December 15, 1948 in Long Beach, California.
12. Charles G. Mullins, born
July 28, 1888 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died February 09, 1931 in
DeQueen, Arkansas.
Thomas Patrick Mullins,
Sr. with
his brother John Mullins
Thomas
Patrick Mullins, Sr., died in Granbury, Texas, June 3, 1892, and is buried in
the family burial plot, Granbury Cemetery. His wife, Nannie, and nine children survived
him.
After the death of Thomas
Patrick Mullins, Sr., two interesting documents were filed with the court by
his wife Nannie Mullins. As these
papers refer to a loss by him of livestock stolen by the Indians, it would be
interesting to know when and where this incident occurred. The following two pages are copies of the
two papers that were filed:
Ni, 233
Petition of Mrs. Nannie
Mullins, Surviving wife of
T.P. Mullins, Deceased,
Filed Sept.14th, 1892.
Phil Jackson, County
Clerk. Entered In Book “C” Page 161.
State of Texas, County of
Hood, in Probate Court Sep-Term 1892.
Your petitioner Mrs. Nannie
Mullins represents and shows to the Court, that she is the Surviving wife of
Thomas P. Mullins, deceased.
That her husband, Thomas P.
Mullins, died on the 3rd day of June 1892 in Hood County, Texas,
That he left surviving him
the following children:
Ed Mullins, age 23
Sam Mullins, age 19
Bessie Mullins, age 17
Tom Mullins, age 16
Sweetie Mullins, age 13
Dora Mullins, age 11
John Mullins, age 8
Joe Mullins, age 6
Charlie Mullins, age 4
That there is a community
estate between herself and her deceased husband. Consisting in a certain Indian Claim against the United States
for stock that was stolen by the Indians, and that said claim is now pending
before the Court of Indian Claims in Washington, D.C. and is of the probable
value of $500.00 and that said claim is all the property or claims belonging to
said estate.
That she is at this time a
Citizen of Hood County, Texas, and was at the death of her husband.
Wherefore. She prays that
appraisers be appointed to make out an inventory and appraisement of said
estate, and that she be granted exclusive control and management of said
estate, and empowered with authority to prosecute said suit to a finality, as
said surviving wife.
RIDDLE & MARTIN
Attys for applicant.
Mrs. Nannie Mullins,
Survivor, Estate of T.P. Mullins, deceased.
INVENTORY AND APPRAISMENT
Filed Sept. 16th, 1892. Phil Jackson, Clerk, by T.H. Hiner, Deputy.
Entered in Book “E” Page
163.
INVENTORY AND APPPAISMENT OF
THE COMMUNITY PROPERTY OF MRS.NANNIE MULLINS AND HER DECEASED HUSBAND THOMAS P.
MULLINS, IN COUNTY COURT OF HOOD COUNTY, TEXAS AS FOLLOWS,
“A certain Indian claim for $7885.00
against the United States, and now pending in the Court of Indian Claims in the
City of Washington, D.C. valued at $250.00
T.H. Hiner, ) Appraisers.
W.A. Duke, )
State of Texas, County Of
Hood: in County Court Hood Co. Texas,
We, the undersigned
Appraisers heretofore appointed to appraise the Community Estate of Mrs. Nannie
Mullins and her deceased husband, Thomas P. Mullins, do solemnly swear that the
foregoing is a full and fair appraisement of the community estate of said
Nannie Mullins and her deceased husband, T.P. Mullins, produced before us by
said Nannie Mullins.
T.H. Hiner,
W.A. Duke.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this Sept. 16th, 1892.
Phil Jackson. Co. Clk. Hood
Co., Texas
I, Nannie Mullins do
solemnly swear that the foregoing inventory and list is a full and complete
Inventory and list of the property and claim of myself and my deceased husband,
Thomas P. Mullins.
Nannie Mullins
Sworn to and subscribed to
before me this Sept. 16th, 1892.
Phil Jackson, Co. Clk. Hood
Co., Texas
Approved this 16th day of Sept. 1892.
G.W. Riddle, Atty.
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