Person:Alphonzo McMullin (1)

Ancestral file lists middle name as Perkins.

Henry Lufkin Mc, Alphonzo's brother, lists his middle name as Payson. je

Pioneers and Prom. Men of Utah lists Payson as his middle name.

Letter from Rulon Hicken to grgrdaughter je, 21 Nov 1966: We have no idea where the Perkins or the Payson came from. We asked his son Wesley McMullin's wife what the name should be and she said absolutely that it was Pierce. The very fact that his mother's maiden name was Mary Pierce and the fact that your own father's name was Wayne Pierce is sufficient proof for discarding Perkins and Payson.

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Biography of ALPHONZO PIERCE MCMULLIN

   From a Henry McMullin Gen. Soc. bulletin, (1973?)

Alphonzo impressed everyone who knew him with his mild, soft-spoken personality. "I never saw him angry or heard of him swearing," remembers one of his grandsons.

Alphonso came to Raymond from Heber, Utah, with his children in the very early days of that little Mormon town. There he lived and died, surrounded by grandchildren who knew him and loved him greatly.

He was kind to everyone, especially children. Grandchildren remember riding often with Grandpa in his wagon. Sometimes they went out to his "ten acres" where he raised sugar beets and a little hay for their cow. Sometimes they'd go to the "Pot Hole", a crude open-pit coal mine on the Old Man River. There the children would play and splash in the river while Grandpa dug coal. To the occasional dismay of his family, he shared this coal generously with anyone who ran out of coal, very seldom receiving payment.

He and his wife, Lucy Lovina Witt, had a large garden in which they raised most of their own food. With their cow and a few pigs they were quite self-sufficient although they never had much money. In those days a man had no reason to fear that his property would be destroyed by vandals if he farmed out-of-town and lived in town. Pigs, chickens and other livestock along with machinery could be left quite safely and one could expect to find it all as he left it on coming back one day or on week later.

Lucy was a skillful cook, and could make a tasty meal from very meager ingredients. She also sewed well, making all her own clothes and Alphonso's shirts. She knit all his socks, too, which she had probably done for her children when they were at home. A good mother, she diligently taught these valuable homemaking skills to her seven daughters.

In their later years when Alphonso and Lucy had poor health, their grandaughters would bring supper to them and clean the house. Their family helped in numerous ways to make these declining years as pleasant as possible.

Although severe arthritis prevented Alphonso from attending church for many years, he was deeply religious. He loved the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and had a strong testimony of its truthfulness. Believing firmly that faithfulness brings forth the blessings of heaven, he lived the teachings of the prophets so well that he is still remembered and loved.

Alphonso died far from the place of his birth at Vinalhaven, Maine, on 16th of June, 1924. He is buried in Temple Hill cemetery, Raymond, beside his beloved wife of fifty-two years. Lucy out-lived him three years, dying 12th of February, 1927 at the age of seventy-five. He died at the same age.

1.   1998 Ancestral File.
2.   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (TM) (2). (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).