WILLIAM FRANKLIN MULLEN (FIRST CHILD OF LARKIN AND MARTHA MULLEN)
WAS BORN 18 APRIL, 1838 IN WILLIAMSTOWN, RUSH COUNTY, IND. ACCORDING TO HIS PENSION RECORD. HE MARRIED CATHARINE J. DRIVER ON AUGUST 29, 1859 IN RANDOLPH COUNTY INDIANA. SHE DIED IN FARMLAND, RANDOLPH COUNTY, INDIANA ON JUNE 8TH, 1881. HE MARRIED LYDIA J. PARKER ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1882 AT NOTTINGHAM WELLS COUNTY, INDIANA.
WILLIAM F. MULLEN'S CHILDREN WERE:
1. MARTHA MELVINA MULLEN BORN JULY 28, 1862 MARRIED –––––WELLS
2. MARGARET MULLEN BORN APRIL 2, 1866 DIED BEFORE APRIL 21, 1921
3. SARAH E. MULLEN BORN SEPT 18, 1867 MARRIED –––DAVIS THEN MARRIED–––– CAMPBELL
4. MELVIN MULLEN BORN DEC 1, 1872
5. WILLIAM MULLEN BORN JULY 18, 1876 DIED BY APRIL 13, 1921
6. AMANDA M. MULLEN
7. ALONZO F. MULLEN BORN OCT 14, 1883
8. ROSA ARNETTA MULLEN MARRIED ––––CORTNER BORN DEC 5, 1885
IN WILL BOOK 4, PP.140–142 DATED 31 JULY 1882, JACOB DRIVER (DIED 23 DEC, 1893) GAVE TO HEIRS OF CATHERINE J. MULLEN DECEASED (WILLIAM F. MULLEN'S FIRST WIFE), VIZ. M. MILVINA MULLEN, SALLY E. MULLEN, MELVIN E. MULLEN REAL ESTATE.
WILLIAM F. MULLEN SERVED IN THE CIVIL WAR AS A PRIVATE IN CO A 84TH REGIMENT INDIANA INFANTRY. IN HIS MILITARY RECORDS HE ENLISTED AT FARMLAND, IND ON AUGUST 5, 1862 AT AGE 23 YEARS. HE HAD BLACK EYES AND BLACK HAIR AND WAS 5'7" TALL. HIS OCCUPATION WAS GIVEN AS BLACKSMITH, BORN IN RUSH COUNTY, INDIANA. HE SERVED IN THE CAMPAIGN OF GEORGIA AND AT BATTLES IN FRANKLIN AND NASHVILLE.
FROM RECORDS AT NATIONAL ARCHIVES: WILLIAM F. MULLEN ORIGINAL APPLICATION 708824 INVALID CERT 48711 CO A 84TH IND INF PRIVATE.
IN HIS ORIGINAL APPLICATION FOR A CIVIL WAR PENSION WILLIAM F. MULLEN APPLIED FOR ON 4 JUNE 1889 BY "REASON OF FATIGUE AND HARD MARCHING HE CONTRACTED PILES... WHICH RESULTED IN CONSTIPATION AND EXTREME NERVOUS IRRITATION." HE DIED MAY 14, 1924 AND HIS LAST MONTHLY PENSION WAS $72 IN APRIL 1924.
AMONG THE NUMEROUS AFFIDAVITS IN HIS PENSION FILE WAS ONE BY PETER J. ROBINSON (W.F. MULLIN'S BROTHER–IN–LAW) AGE 43 PO BOX FARMLAND 24 FEB, 1890..."I HAVE KNOWN WILLIAM F. MULLIN 25 YEARS AND KNOW THAT AT THIS TIME HE IS IN DESTITUTE CIRCUMSTANCES AND IS DEPENDENT ON THE CHARITIES OF PEOPLE."
IN A PRIVATE BILL NO. 92 H.R. 23849 "AN ACT GRANTING PENSION AND INCREASE OF PENSIONS TO CERTAIN SOLDIERS...OF THE CIVIL WAR...BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...P. 7...THE NAME OF WILLIAM F. MULLIN...LATE OF COMPANY A EIGHTY–FOURTH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEERS INFANTRY...AND PAY HIM A PENSION AT THE RATE OF THIRTY DOLLARS PER MONTH IN LIEU OF WHAT HE IS RECEIVING." AN ACT APPROVED JAN 28, 1909.
WILLIAM F. MULLEN (SOMETIMES KNOWN AS FRANK MULLEN) DIED 7 APRIL 1924 IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, INDIANA.
IN HIS OBITUARY "RETIRED MINISTER DEAD AT FARMLAND"
THE REVEREND FRANK MULLEN, EIGHTY–SIX, A RETIRED MINISTER OF FARMLAND, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS STEP–SON, ORIS LEONARD OF EAST SOUTH STREET, HERE THURSDAY MORNING FOLLOWING A SHORT ILLNESS WITH PNEUMONIA. THE DECEASED WAS A MEMBER OF THE 84TH INDIANA VOLUNTEERS IN THE CIVIL WAR. THE WIFE WAS DANGEROUSLY SICK THE SAME TIME AND DIED THAT EVENING.
INCLUDED IN THE LIST OF SURVIVORS ARE THE WIDOW, THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. SALLIE DAVIS, MRS. NETTIE WELLS AND MRS. CORTNER, TWO SONS ELMER AND ALONZO MULLEN OF FARMLAND, AND TWO BROTHERS JOHN MULLEN OF MUNCIE AND ELKHANAH MULLEN OF FARMLAND; ONE SISTER MRS. CHRISTINE FALL, OF FARMLAND AND TWO STEP–SONS ULYSSES LEONARD OF FARMLAND AND ORLA LEONARD OF WINCHESTER.
MR. MULLEN SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS PASTOR OF THE FARMLAND CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
HE WAS BURIED AT MAXVILLE CEMETERY (WOODLAWN), HIS CEMETERY INSCRIPTION READS WILLIAM F. MULLEN: CO A 84TH IND INF.
HIS WIFE CATHARINE J. MULLEN IS BURIED THERE "WIFE OF W.F. MULLEN DIED 8 JUNE 1881 AE 39 YEARS 6 DAYS 3 MONTHS ON HER TOMBSTONE:
" A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US IS GONE
A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILLED
A PLACE IS VACANT IN OUR HOME
WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED"
THEIR DAUGHTER SARAH E. DAVIS 1867–1956 IS BURIED THERE ALSO. ...
