Booker Mullins

b. 1819 · Kentucky

Born 1819, Kentucky

Children include Margaret

Booker Mullins was born in Kentucky about 1819. On 9 July 1835, at Pikeville in Pike County, Kentucky, he married Nancy Potter. He was about sixteen.

In 1850 the census taker in Pike County found Booker Mullens, 31, with Nancey Jane, 34, born in North Carolina, and eight children: Susannah, 14, Sherwood, 12, Mary, 11, Sarah, 9, James, 7, Martha, 5, Nancey, 3, and Rhoda, 1. Elijah Mullens, 25, a Virginian, lived with them. A daughter Jane was born about 1853.

In the 1850s and 1860s the family crossed Pine Mountain into Wise County, Virginia. On 21 August 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, their daughter Martha, 18, born in Pike County, married J. M. Moore of Pike County in Wise County, and the register names her parents as Booker and Nancy Mullins.

Their daughter Jane married John R. Vanover, the son of a North Carolina family settled in Wise County. She died in Wise County in May 1875, aged 22, and her husband gave the assessor her parents' names, Booker and Nancy Mullens. Booker was dead by January 1867. That month, and again in July, the clerk of the Pike Circuit Court issued subpoenas for witnesses for the defendants in a suit Joseph Bryant had brought against A. Stewart and others, and among those summoned were Sherod Mullins and "Nancy Mullins (Booker Widow)". Isaac Potter, Nancy Collins and J. J. Mitchell were summoned with them. A memorial created by a descendant in 2025 says he was killed in Kentucky in 1865 and names his parents as Sherwood Mullins and Mary Roberts; his eldest son was a Sherwood.

Children

Margaret Mullins 1853-1875

Sources

Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Records, 1853-1912, Wise County, Eastern district, 1875, line 29; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:6ZLG-RYQ8, image 3:1:3QHN-13YR-MCWJ.

Kentucky, Marriages, 1785-1979, Pike County, 9 July 1835, page 75b; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:FWY1-1NG.

United States census 1850, Pike County, Kentucky, National Archives microfilm M432; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:M65V-8HR.

Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935, Wise County, 21 August 1863; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:DMT7-P82M.

Pike County, Kentucky, Circuit Court records, 1866 to 1872, subpoenas, Joseph Bryant against A. Stewart and others, 1867; FamilySearch image 3:1:3Q9M-CSTF-W9QG-Z.

Kentucky marriages, Booker Mullins and Nancy Potter, 9 July 1835, Pikeville, FamilySearch ark 1:1:FWY1-1NG; United States census 1850, Pike County, Kentucky, ark 1:1:M65V-8HR; Virginia county marriage registers, Wise County, J. M. Moore and Martha Mullins, 21 August 1863, ark 1:1:DMT7-P82M; Virginia death registers, Wise County, Eastern district, 1875, Jane Vanover, line 29, ark 1:1:6ZLG-RYQ8. Find a Grave memorial 286420979, Booker Mullins, created by Kelly Stricker Spurlock, 2025. Pike County, Kentucky, Circuit Court subpoenas in Joseph Bryant against A. Stewart and others, January and July 1867, FamilySearch image 3:1:3Q9M-CSTF-W9QG-Z.

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