... 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, son of Col. John Coffee Hays of the Mexican war and better known as
"Jack" Hays, the celebrated Texas ranger. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hays, Jr., have
two sons, John Coffee, Jr., and Harry T.; Eliza M. married E. B. Perrin of
Williams, Ariz., and they have a son�Lilo McMullin Perrin; Rebecca was the wife
of Francis J. Heney of San Francisco; Beauregard is unmarried; Elizabeth M.
married Judge C. L. Weller, and their daughter Anna is the wife of Commander
Earl B. Shipp, who is stationed at Washington. John, a graduate of Princeton,
was one of the leading men of Fresno, Cal., where he was president of the Fresno
National Bank, as well as of the Fresno Irrigation Company and the Fresno Ice
Company, and identified with other business activities. By his marriage to Miss
Betty Hays, daughter of Col. John Coffee Hays, he had three children, John. Jr.,
Eliza Morgan and Harmon Hays, by whom he is survived; Susan H., who first
married Thos. S. Williams, later became Mrs. Edward Fant; Morgan and Henrietta.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. McMullin made her home in Kentucky
for ten years, then returned to California. Changes of residence, however, left
undimmed her loyalty to San Joaquin County, for which she cherishes a deep
affection as the home of her happy married years, the birthplace of all of her
children but one, and the center of many warm friendships formed during those
busy years. Proud of the military records of her ancestry, she taught her
children to display a patriotic spirit in every act and in her own life has
shown the possession of the loyalty of her ancestors. On the organization of the
Sons of the Confederacy at Lexington. Ky., she became a charter member. At that
time there was no ladies' auxiliary, but later she identified herself with the
Daughters of the Confederacy and in 1906 she became a member of the Albert
Sidney Johnston Chapter of San Francisco. She is also a member of the Daughters
of the Revolution. In her religious life she is affiliated with the First
Presbyterian Church of San Francisco but her broad-mindedness and charitable
disposition leads her to liberally assist various churches, regardless of
denomination. Possessed of much native business ability, she has been deeply
interested in improving the vast acres left by Captain McMullin and thus has
greatly enhanced their value. She has also acquired other tracts of land in the
various counties of the Valley which have become very valuable by the
improvements she has made upon them. A cultured woman, she has left her impress
on the civic and social life of the county in her stand for righteousness in
public and social life and for the high moral uplift of the community. Like her
gallant husband she has been a liberal contributor to all public movements for
the betterment of county and state. ...
