Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
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NANNIE ELIZABETH TERRELL MULLINS
Nancy Elizabeth Terrell Mullins
“Nannie”
The first part is an account of her father’s family history:
Edward S. Terrell.
Edward S.
Terrell was born in Maury County,
Tennessee, on May 24, 1812. We do not
know just when he came to Texas, but he was one of the first, if not the first,
to settle in the Ft. Worth area. He
established a trading post, doing business with the Indians as well as the
white settlers.
Edward
S. Terrell, 1812 - 1905
With a
friend, Edward Terrell took a wagon and team and went north to purchase
supplies for his business. Supplies
were purchased, loaded on their wagon, and they headed south on their return trip.
However, before their arrival home, they were ambushed by some Indians and
captured. They were tied to saplings, and the Indian leaders began to debate
what they would do with them. Eleven of
them wanted to turn them loose, but, of course, they would keep their wagon,
team and supplies, and their guns. One
of the Indians was determined that they should die. Finally, however, the decision was made to turn them loose, but
to keep all their belongings. So they
set them free and indicated they were free to walk away, but no food, nor any weapon they might use to procure game for food was
given them. As they walked away they
halfway expected to hear the whiz of an arrow for each one of them, but
fortunately no arrow came. Away from
the Indians they picked up a club so they would be ready to hurl it at a rabbit
or some other animal they might see, however, the only thing they saw was a
skunk. They were pretty hungry, but
they were not hungry enough to eat skunk soup or broiled skunk, so they went
hungry.
After
walking many, many miles, they saw a light.
Making their way to it, they found it was shining from an opening in a
log cabin. Knocking on the door, they
announced that they were white men and friends. A man opened the door and invited them in. Formalities were exchanged, and their
appearance told the man they were very hungry.
While they were engaged in conversation, the man’s daughter prepared some hoecakes and made some
coffee. They needed no urging to begin
eating when it was placed on the table before them.
They
learned the name of their host was David Peveler, and the young lady who
prepared their food, was his daughter Lucinda.
Ed Terrell decided that he not only liked the food that had been
prepared, but, more than anything, he liked Lucinda, the one who had prepared
the wonderful hoecakes and coffee. Time
brought the two together in matrimony.
Edward S. Terrell married Lucinda (Lou) [Peveler] Terrell, July 16, 1845, in Bonham,
Fannin County, Texas.
Edward S.
Terrell, being one of the earliest, if not the first, settlers in Ft. Worth, saw and took part in many of the “first
things” to happen there. When he was 93 years old he heard his first
phonograph play, and took his first automobile ride. In the Civil War he was a soldier. He is referred to as a captain
in some writings, but it was his cousin, John C. Terrell, [1] who was granted a commission as captain.
Photo
taken about 1905 in front of
the
Tarrant County Courthouse
In 1869 Edward S.
Terrell was at Ft. Belknap. It was in the True Community north of New Castle,
Texas, where many of the Terrell’s lived and are buried. Edward S. Terrell died November 1, 1905, [2] at the home of his son, Edward S. Terrell, Jr. He was buried in the True Cemetery,
near New Castle.
Lucinda
Peveler Terrell, 1825 - 1920
His wife, Lucinda Peveler
Terrell, [3] was the daughter of David Peveler and Sally
McCart Peveler. She was born
December 24, 1825 in Missouri. After
the death of her husband she went to live with her daughter, Dora Terrell
McCloud. She died there March 15,
1920. Money was sent to take her to be
buried in the True Cemetery with her husband, but for some reason this was
never done. Edward S. Terrell and
Lucinda Peveler Terrell were the parents of the following children:
1. David P.
Terrell, born May 11, 1846 in Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. He married Mary. He was their child, and the
first child born in Ft. Worth.
2. Nancy (Nannie)
Elizabeth Terrell, born January 28, 1848 in Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas;
died August 05, 1944 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
3. George
Whitfield Terrell, born August 06, 1850 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas;
died November 11, 1911 in New Castle, Texas.
He married Nancy Ann Penn December 22, 1879 in Graham, Young County,
Texas.
James Bluford Terrell, 1853 – 1939
“Blu”
4. James
Bluford Terrell, born January 11, 1853 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas;
died July 29, 1939. He married Mary
Josephene Lindsey September 18, 1884 in Graham, Young County, Texas; died July
29, 1939 in New Castle, Texas. Buried True Cemetery.
5. Mary L.
Terrell, born September 11, 1855 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; died
1865 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
6. Edward S.
Terrell, Jr., born February 16, 1861 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; died
February 12, 1914 in New Castle, Texas.
He married Sarah Fannie Bennett June 08, 1898 in Young County, Texas;
born December 1876 in Kentucky.
E. Dora Terrell McCloud, 1861 - 1941
7. E. Dora
Terrell, born April 03, 1861 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. She married A.C. McCloud January 09, 1881 in
Young County, Texas; died November 01, 1941 in Kingsville, Texas.
8. Alice Terrell,
born January 16, 1864 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; died January 10,
1940 in New Castle, Young County, Texas.
She married Charles Franklin Vardy December 13, 1885 in New Castle,
Young County, Texas; born 1864.
9. Emma
Terrell, born June 12, 1867 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. She married John. A. Hinsely October 21,
1888 in Young County, Texas; died in Jacksboro, Texas.
Nannie Elizabeth Terrell
grew up in Ft. Worth. While acting as
bridesmaid at the wedding of Samuel Peveler and Lynn Mullins,[4] she met for the first time
a young man who was best man at the wedding of his sister, Lynn Mullins. Nannie, relating this experience to her son
Joe Mullins and his wife, Margaret, said to them, “it was love at first sight.”
They, Thomas Patrick Mullins and Nannie Elizabeth Terrell, were married January
1, 1867. They lived in Whitney, Texas
until the early 1870s, when they moved to Granbury, Texas, where they lived on
W. Pearl Street, on the south side almost opposite where they moved later, to
the place now known as the Mullins place at 1030 W. Pearl, where a
granddaughter, Alleene Mullins,[5] daughter of Sam Mullins,
now lives.
By
1888 Nannie Mullins and her husband, Thomas Patrick Mullins, were the parents
of twelve children. Two of these died
in infancy. A daughter, about six years
of age, suffered burns from which she died.
Nannie Mullins saw nine of her children grow to maturity. Her husband died June 3, 1892, leaving, her
with nine children, aged from four years old to twenty three. Faced with widowhood and the challenge of
nine children, Nannie Mullins faced the situation with remarkable courage and
talent. Fortunately the older children were able and very willing to help in
keeping the family together. She was
wonderfully blessed in rearing her large family to maturity, that is, the nine
she was left with as a widow. Below is a list of all her children:
1.
Edward
Barry Mullins, born December 25, 1868 in Whitney, Texas; died November 29, 1912
in Wagoner, Oklahoma.
2.
George
M. Mullins, born August 08, 1870 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died November
26, 1870 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
3.
Lula
Mullins, born November 06, 1871 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died November
09, 1877 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
4.
Samuel
Patrick Mullins, born April 08, 1873; died September 29, 1964 in Granbury, Hood
County, Texas.
5.
Anne
Elisabeth (Bessie) Mullins, born November 21, 1874 in Granbury, Hood County,
Texas; died February 20, 1910 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas.
6.
Thomas
Patrick Mullins, Jr., born March 14, 1876; died July 25, 1946 in Granbury, Hood
County, Texas.
7.
Sweetie
Mullins, born July 12, 1878; died July 03, 1910.
8.
Eudorah
(Dora) Alice Mullins, born May 25, 1879; died August 20, 1985.[6]
9.
David
T. Mullins, born May 04, 1881; died January 28, 1882.
10. Johnnie W. Mullins, born
August 27, 1884 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died January 03, 1978 in Los
Angeles, California.[7]
11. Joseph Anderson Mullins,
born March 08, 1886; died December 15, 1948 in Long Beach, California.
12. Charles G. Mullins, born
July 28, 1888 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas; died February 09, 1931 in
DeQueen, Arkansas.
Nannie Mullins was tactful and loving in the treatment of her
children. There was a remarkable spirit
of family unity and loyalty. The love
and respect in which the children held their mother was a remarkable testimony
of her tactful dealings with them. One
incident will illustrate her management of the children, especially the three
youngest ones, Johnnie, Joe, and Charlie.
She had requested them to always be home by a certain hour. One day these three were late in getting
home. She told them she would have to
punish them for their disobedience.
First she called Johnnie, who came over to receive his punishment. She tapped him lightly with her switch a few
times. She called Joe next, but Joe did
not come, said he was too big to receive that kind of punishment, and he went
off to bed. Charlie was called next. He
come forward obediently and accepted a few light taps with his mother’s switch.
All the boys went to bed. Some time
later Nannie heard someone at her door.
It was Joe. He said, “Mamma, I am now ready to take my punishment, I was
wrong,” and he came over and received his punishment.
Nannie Mullins was a member of
the Methodist church. Her father was a member of the Christian church. Whether
Nannie was influenced by the ministry of her husband’s Methodist minister
father, we do not know. Several of her
children became members of the Methodist church. Grandma Mullins, as she was affectionately
called by her neighbors and friends, had impaired hearing, and some time later
her eyesight was also impaired. Margaret
Mullins, wife of Joe Mullins, writes that one time while they were there for a
visit, they played on their musical instruments for her. She was able to hear enough so that she
would tap out the tune with her foot. At one time when she wanted to sign some
papers, she had Joe guide her hand so she could write her name. This daughter-in-law speaks very highly of
her mother-in-law, saying she considered her, and all the members of the
Mullins family she met, as very fine people.
Your author was a very small
boy when he first met Grandma Mullins, but he remembers her very distinctly as
a very pleasant lady and a good neighbor to his own grandmother, Mrs. Hiner, who
lived about two blocks away.
Living in Granbury for a
time was a man known by the name of John St. Helen, who, it was claimed, was
actually John
Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Mullins became well acquainted with the family. On one occasion when they come for a visit
to see the Mullins family, he gave Mrs. Mullins a set of twelve silver
tablespoons, or tea spoons. She later
gave these spoons to different members of the family, and some of these spoons
are keepsakes of those who now have them.
Nannie Mullins, 1848 -
1944
Nannie E. Terrell Mullins
died August 5, 1944, and was buried in the family burial lot in the Granbury Cemetery.
She lived a long and full life, filled with love and care for her family, and
was loved and respected by them in return.
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