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Dr. Hodges Writes On Mullinses Of- Watauga I ?r DA. J. e. HODGES Maiden. ? Every two or three week* I receive, (rem tome one In Watauga. county, a request to write a historical sketch at some early family of that region, usu ally a family related, or supposed to be related, by blood or marri age to the Hodges family. Frequently, the request Is far a family of whom I do not have a single item of hletory. Unfor tunately, during my early life, ?pent in Watauga county, I was not, in the least, interested In lo cal and family history, therefore, let people born from 1802 to 1BS9, who could have tefck ma much that is now lost forever, die, and the history they knew fiied with til am. These queries show that a few people, at least, are interested la this old family history, and one weaders why some one in Wa tauga county does not undertake to collect what Information is still available, on the first twenty or thirty pioneer families, who left an imprint on that region, and helped to lay the foundation for the finest county In North Caro lina? The last request was on the Mulllns family, of which per haps, Jesse Mulllns was best known, where he lived and some thing Of the family of that name. I am reliably informed that just east of Perkinsville, when you cross the - highway bridge over New River, on the Boone to Wilkeaboro road, you enter the Mullins land. The first MuUins we find any record of is William Mullins, who is shown by the 1790 census as living about the center of what is now Watauga county, Wllkos county at that time. The wife of this William Mul llns, w6 Sarah Triplett, daugh ter of Daniel Triplett and his wife Elizabeth. The Triplett fam ily had come to North Carolina from Virginia just prior to the be ginning of the Revolutionary War and settled on the^iorth fork of Kings Creek in what is now Caldwell county. This Sarah Triplett was the oldest child of Daniel Triplett. He had a son, Jesse Triplett, for whom Jess* Mullins was named. Jesse Trip lett settled on Elk Creek and the greater part of the name living in Watauga County are his descend ants. After 1790, William Mullins ev- 1 idetitly went back to W liken county u we find him there in 1800. Hia home waa on the Yad kin a ihort diatance below Fort Defiance, the home of Gen. Wil liam Lenoir. He was living there when William Hodges, ion of pi oneer Thomaa Hodges, married hia daughter, Sarah Muilins, De cember 20, 1800. Soon after 1800, Thomaa Trip let^ of Wilkea county, told to Wil liam Mullina a large tract at land on New River in Aahe county ? the land later knq.wn as the Jeaae Mullins land. The will of William Mullina, on record in Aahe county, dated March 20, 1810, namea hia wife, Sarah, and three tons, John, Jesse and Mark, but mentlona no daughters, though we know he had three. The will ia wit nessed by Joaeph Sands. Cyrus Fairchlld and Joaeph Brown, and Nathan Horton named ekecutor. the failure to mention any daughters la obviously a case where they were otherwise pro vided for, or left to work out thetr destiny by finding husbands. Elizabeth, one of the Mullins daughters, married William Hag ler of Wilkes, and Ann married, July 10, 1803, Prancis Irwin, ? wealthy and prominent merchant of Wilkes boro. His store and res idence was on a lot directly in front of the courthouse. Sarah, who married William Hodges, completes the three I daughter* of William Mullini. Mark, the youngMt ion of Wil liam Mullini (the name u spelled "Demarcus" In the marriage bond;, married Sarah Maret. She was the only child of Klllktleth Kendall, by her first marriage to John Mam. Elizabeth Kendall wai a >i?t*r to Sarah Kendall, the wife of p to nee* Robert Shearer. Elizabeth Kendall Maret married tor her second husband, the Rev. John Barlow, a Baptist minister, whose -name will be found in the minutes of old Three forks Church. They have many living descendants. It has been said that Jaaaa Mull ins never married but evi dence of a wife ha* been discov ered, though none at aoy children. Perhaps she did not live long. He is said to have been a gnat hunt er and trapper and an expert old time fiddler. He waa, also, Some thing of a miser, and oM people said many year* ago, that It *u thought he burried a considerable quantity of gold and silver coin on hi* farm on New River. At one time, after hi* death various people *ea robed probable place* In hope of finding It. He I* iaid to have apent hi* last days in the house of Levi Wilson, and died there. We do not know at a ilngle liv ing descendant of his family who bears the name of Mulllns. MEW JOM To keep pace with the nation's rapidly growing population, American industry must create 1,000,000 new Job* a year for the next 20 years, according to Earl Stinting, of the National Associa tion of Manufacturer*. Bunting predicted that the nation'* pre *ent labor force of 65,000,000,000 will rise to 87,000,000 by 1?7S. Sen. McCarthy denies that hi* goal I* to be President of the United States Paul Said To Mr. Ed: Billy, aged nine, wm told by hi? teacher to write a itory about hi* origin. He promptly went home and questioned hi* mother: | "Mom, whore did Grandtya come from?" "The stork brought her, dear." "Well then, where did KOU come, from?" pursued Billy. "The stork brought me, too." ''Did he bring me too." "You too ?on." With ? little frown, Billy wrote the lead paragraph of his article: "There have been no natural births In our family for three generations." "The natural thing to do is sell your tobacco In Boone and buy your Insurance from us." Your friendly agent. PAUL. 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