Summary of presentation made at Thomas Cary McMullen reunion in June 2009. Location was Keltys, TX. Includes errors that will be corrected.

1. A Brief Journey
Through Our Past
(about 200 years anyway)

2. William and Martha leave Ireland in 1755
Antrim, Ireland

3. On to America!
William and Martha arrive in Virginia

4. Thomas McMullen
• Williamson County TN – Born 1785
• Married Margaret Patterson in 1811
• Fought in War of 1812 with TN Volunteers
• Received Land Grant for War Service
• Was a mover!

5. Evidence of Thomas
in War of 1812
• COLONEL ROBERT STEELE
• DESIGNATION: 4th Regiment West Tennessee Militia Infantry
• DATES: January 1814 - May 1814
• MEN MOSTLY FROM: Jackson, White, Bedford, Giles, Lincoln, and
Maury Counties
• CAPTAINS: James Bennett, Robert Campbell, John Chitwood, Samuel
Maxwell, James Randals, Richard Ratton, James Shinault
• BRIEF HISTORY:
• Part of the brigade led by General Thomas Johnson, this regiment was
composed of about 450 men. Colonel Steele and his men were left at
Fort Strother while Jackson marched the rest of his army to
Horseshoe Bend where the climactic battle of the Creek War was
fought (27 March 1814). Steele's regiment served as wagon guards for
supplies from Fort Deposit and built boats to transport supplies down
the Coosa River to Fort Williams. From Camp Blount at Fayetteville,
the regiment took the much-traveled route through Huntsville, Fort
Deposit, and Fort Strother.

6. • Moved from
Nashville area to
Rutherford area
(Gibson County)
about 1822
(Davy Crockett’s
neighbor in the
1830 census).
The Thomas McMullen Trail

7. Thomas & Davy
• Info from 1830 Census of Gibson County TN.
• McMullen, Thomas 2211001-
0011001 males: two under 5 (John Dixon &
?), two 5-10 (Silas & Robert A), one 10-15
(Wm R). Age 45
• Crockett, David 00121001-1220101 He was
44 then, so they were also very close in
age. He moved to Gibson County in 1822.

8. Gibson County TN
The move to Gibson
County was in
“wild” western TN in
Indian country.
Plenty of bears,
panthers, & wolves.
Was the last place
Crockett lived
before leaving for
Texas and the
Alamo in 1835.

9. • Nashville area
to Rutherford
area (Gibson
County) by 1830
(Davy Crockett’s
neighbor)
• Rutherford to
Coffeeville MS
area (Yalobusha
County) in
1849(?)-1850
The Thomas McMullen Trail

10. Signature

11. Signature

12. Moved to Texas!
• Only 3 years in Mississippi
• Another Land Grant?
• 1853 when Robert A. was 31 and James
Ulman was a young boy (about 1)
• Past the bluffs near Vicksburg while
traveling down the Mississippi River

13. • Nashville area
to Rutherford
area by 1830
(Davy Crockett’s
neighbor)
• Rutherford to
Coffeeville MS in
1850
• Coffeeville MS
to Bay St. Louis
MS in 1853
• Thomas dies in
Bay St. Louis in
1853 from
Yellow Fever
• Robert A. and
William R. move
with other
members of
family to TX
The Thomas McMullen Trail

14. Robert A. McMullen
• Born 1823 in Williamson County
TN
• Married Jane Agee in 1849
• 7 Kids
• Moved to Texas in 1854 when
he was 31
• Short stint in Civil War when he
was 38 (exempted due to age)
• Died at 47 in 1869

15. Robert A. & William R.
in same Regiment

17. John D. McMullen
• Robert A. & William R.’s little brother
• Born 1828 in Williamson County TN
• Married Rebecca Ferguson in 1850
• Stayed in MS when others moved to Texas
• 7 Kids
• Served in Civil War in 29th MS Infantry,
Company E
• Died at 36 on November 30, 1864

18. • Letter from JD McMullen to his
wife on Sept 10, 1864
• During the fight for Atlanta
(Lovejoy Station is where current
Hartsfield airport is located)
• One of seven soldiers (out of 96)
who survived
• JD’s company joined Walthall’s
Division.
• Book: On constant move right
after this letter until Battle at
Franklin TN
• Likely killed during a night fight
and buried with about 400 other
unidentified soldiers from MS
• Bloodiest 5 hours of the Civil War
• McGavock Cemetary
•http://battleoffranklin.wordpress.co
m/mcgavock-cemetery/

21. James Ulman McMullen
1896

22. Thomas Cary McMullen

23. Ancestry.com

24. McMullen
Family
Tree Line

25. McMullen
Family
Tree Line
James Black Knight of Lorn Stewart
John Stewart
Alexander Stewart
Robert Stewart
Marjorie Bruce
Robert Bruce
Robert de Bruce
*Robert de Bruce (Lord) & Isabel Matilda Mar
& Elizabeth de Burgh
Robert de Bruce & Isabel de Clare
Isabel de Clare
Isabel Marshall
*William the Protector Marshall
John Fitzgilbert
Gilbert Fitzrobert
Robert
Henry
*William the Conquerer
*Robert II of Normandy
*Richard II of Normandy
*Richard I of Normandy
*William I of Normandy
*Rollo Ragnvaldsson
Ragnveld Eysteinsson

26. Rollo Duke of Normandy

27. William I Duke of Normandy

28. Richard I Duke of Normandy

29. Notes on Thomas
http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/programs/csls/historical_collections/a
rchival_collections/r_s/files/schwab_nichols.html
SCHWAB, LUCILLE-NICHOLS, C. HOWARD, COLLECTION
BOX 2 Continued
Folder 10 HOSPITALS, DOCTORS, DISEASES, AND MEDICINE
11. Pie Dufour's a la mode: Yellow Fever History, unidentified newspaper, n.d.
12. Fever Led to Naval War, unidentified newspaper, n.d.
13. Many Died in Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853, Times-Picayune,
April 16, 1968
14. City's Greatest Foe Was Yellow Fever, States-Item, June 6, 1977
SCHWAB, LUCILLE-NICHOLS, C. HOWARD, COLLECTION
BOX 6 SCRAPBOOK 5 Continued
Article
• 149. Dreaded Disease Killed 9,000, Epidemic of Yellow Fever Brought
Disaster in 1853, unidentified newspaper, n.d.