... During a visit in Washington. D. C., Captain McMullin met Miss Eliza
Fleming Morgan, who like himself came from a sturdy stock fitted to endure the
privations in frontier regions. She was a native of Kentucky, a daughter of an
officer famous in the annals of that state, and he was the son of Col. Simon
Morgan, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Her father, Gen. Daniel Morgan,
was born in Virginia and with his father was a pioneer of Kentucky, where he
became a large landowner and a man of wealth and distinction. Influential in
politics, he served in the Kentucky Senate for twenty-five years, where he
helped to make the constitution of that state, and he also served as a member of
Congress. He married Miss Anna Clarkson, a native of Virginia, descended from
some of the most prominent old Virginia families, including the Picketts,
Marshalls, Keiths and Scotts.
The youngest child of the family, Eliza Fleming Morgan, was educated at
Bishop McIlvain's finishing school in Cincinnati. About the time she completed
her education, John J. Crittenden, a warm friend of the family, was U. S.
senator from Kentucky and he persuaded General Morgan to let his daughter
accompany his family to Washington to spend the winter. It was there she met
Captain McMullin, the acquaintance resulting in their marriage at her home in
Kentucky June 18, 1857. Their wedding trip took them to White Chapel Springs,
Va., and soon after their return they came to San Francisco, reaching there in
the fall of that year. Captain McMullin purchased a home in the city, but as
soon as Mrs. McMullin discovered that so much of her husband's time had to be
spent on the ranch she expressed a desire to make their home there, so he had
Casa Blanca fitted up for their reception. Mrs. McMullin had always been a lover
of the great outdoors and particularly of horseback riding, and the years of
outdoor life she enjoyed here have undoubtedly contributed to her continued good
health and wonderful constitution.
All of their nine children were born in California, with the exception of Eliza M., who is a native of Kentucky.
- Anna married John C. Hays, Jr.. of Oakland, ...
- Eliza M. married E. B. Perrin of Williams, Ariz., ...
- Rebecca was the wife of Francis J. Heney of San Francisco;
- Beauregard is unmarried;
- Elizabeth M. married Judge C. L. Weller, ...
- John, a graduate of Princeton, ... marriage to Miss Betty Hays, ...
- Susan H., who first married Thos. S. Williams, later became Mrs. Edward Fant; ...
