Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
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EDWARD BARRY
MULLINS
Edward Barry Mullins,
1869 – 1912
Edward Barry Mullins, the
first child of Thomas P. and Nannie E. Mullins, was born into their home at
Whitney, Texas, December 25th, 1869. To them this Christmas Day Baby was a
Christmas present indeed. The family
moved to Granbury with little Ed in the early 1870’s. He was so young it is
doubtful if he ever had any recollection of life in Whitney, and so he grew up
with, his brothers and sisters, in his mind at least, Granbury became his home
as it was in fact by birth, in their lives.
Edward Barry Mullins and Della
A. Gibson Mullins
Edward was twenty three
years old when his father died, and he had already started his career as a
cattleman. Being a good stockman as
well as a cowboy who takes care of the stock, all this is not learned in a
day. Ed had a good course in this
business which became his chosen profession. In it he grew, and developed until he was not only a top cowboy, he
became a top cattleman. When he was thirty years old he was the manager for an
outfit that handled 40,000 head of cattle each year. He was also successful in
marrying the daughter of one of the owners, Della Gibson, whom he married
October 17, 1897.
Jettie, Jim, Ned &
Lawrence in 1906
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Children of Edward Barry Mullins and Della Gibson Mullins: Thomas James Mullins, 1898
– 1979 Jettie Jewel Mullins, 1900
– 1993 Bessie Mullins, 1902 –
1905 Edward Buck (Ned) Mullins,
1904 – 1993 Lawrence Gibson Mullins, 1906
– 1988 Doris Jean Mullins, 1909 –
2004 |
The home of Edward and Della
Mullins was blessed with the following children: two girls, Jettie and Doris,
and three boys, Jim, Ned and Lawrence.
Jettie became Mrs. Whitney Rowland, and lives in Coalinga, California.
Miss Doris Mullins lives in Weaversville, California. Jim is Thomas James
Mullins of Yuma, Arizona. Ned, is Ned
Mullins of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and of Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America
while Lawrence is Lawrence Mullins of Fresno, California.
Johnnie Mullins went to
Wagoner, Oklahoma to be with his brother Ed, in 1898, when he was fourteen
years old, and remained with him in that Cowboy University of Hard Knocks for
four years, graduating with honors and later he was honored by having his name
placed in the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
A few years later, when Joe Mullins was ready for a course in cowboying,
he went to be with his brother Ed, in Oklahoma. Joe also graduated with honors, and used his trick roping and
fancy roping, bronco busting, in his life as a border patrol man, rodeo
promoter, actor in the movies, and in the development of his family of four
into various specialty acts in which all four took part.
John Edward Mullins, son of
Thelma Burhus and Lawrence Gibson Mullins, died March 30, 1967. He had
one daughter Mrs. Jody Kay Mullins who resides in Clovis, California (1978).
Jody is an accomplished horsewoman, training and riding her own horses as well
as others.
Edward Mullins died November
29, 1912.
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