Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
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CHARLES G. MULLINS
Charles G. Mullins, 1888
– 1931,
and Charles G. Mullins,
Jr.
Charles G. Mullins was the
last son, and the last child, born into the family of Thomas P. and Nannie E. Mullins.
He was born in Granbury, Texas, July 28, 1888.
Charles Mullins attended the
public school in Granbury. Charles was
a likeable and capable young man. For
some time he worked in the grocery store of W.B. Daniels as clerk and delivery
man. For a time he and Tommie Robertson
ran a tailor shop and cleaning and pressing parlor. For several years he was a clerk in the Granbury Post Office
during the time when Henry Zweifel was postmaster. Your author remembers seeing
Charles and his brother Joe riding horses Roman style along the road in front
of my house. However, the bee that
“spurred” some of his brothers on the head to be cowboys did not spur Charlie.
He became the businessman type and had commercial interests.
Charlie was a veteran of World War I, having served for nineteen months with Company I, 359th Infantry, 90th Division. He spent ten months in France, and was in several engagements on St. Mihiel and other fronts. Charles was a gun expert and was a sharpshooter during the war.
Charles Mullins was married
in Dallas, Texas, on December 4, 1920, to Miss Bertha Pemberton. Soon after the marriage they went to
DeQueen, Arkansas where he engaged in the grocery business for a time. In July 1929 he became part owner and was
manager of the Nehi Bottling Company.
Charlie Mullins was a public
spirited citizen, and had many friends.
At the time of his death he had been a member of the City Council for
three years. He was finance officer for
the local post of the American Legion. He was president of the men’s Bible
class of the Baptist church. He was a
stockholder in the DeQueen Country Club, and would have been elected to the
board of governors at the annual meeting scheduled to be held the same week in
which he died. For two years he held the club golf championship honors. He was
a Royal Arch Mason of the Shrine. While
Charles was active in a different field from those which other members of the
Mullins boys were active in, Charles carried out the family characteristic of doing
what he did well.
Charlie’s death was a tragic
one. He came home for the noon hour. He played with the baby for a few
moments. Then his wife mentioned that
it was time for the automobile license to be paid. He went into the bedroom to
get the papers out of the dresser drawer.
In the drawer was an old pistol intended for his wife’s use when he was
away from home. In getting the papers
out of the drawer, somehow the pistol was discharged, inflicting on Charles a
fatal wound. He died February 9th, 1931,
in DeQueen, Arkansas. His wife continued to live in DeQueen, where
she died in 1970 of cancer. His son,
who was ten months old at the time of Charles’ death, is engaged in the
mercantile business in DeQueen. The name of his son is Charles G. Mullins, Jr.
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