Pike County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mullins, Thomas K. December 16 1886
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The Troy Messenger
He was the subject of an obituary article on 16 Dec 1886 in "The Troy 
Messenger".            
                                                T. K. Mullins
   Thomas Kinian Mullins was born in the State of North Carolina on the 16th, 
of January 1809, and had he lived until the same date next month, he would have 
been seventy-eight years of age.  His father emigrated from North Carolina to 
Georgia about the year 1817, when the subject of this sketch was only eight 
years old, and settled near Milledgeville, once Georgia's famous captiol.  
After Mr. Mullins reached the age of maturity, and entered the world as a 
soldier to fight his own battles, he went to Greensboro, Ga., where he met, 
wooed and won Amelia Brockman, to whom he was married on the 9th, of December, 
1830.  Eleven children came to bless this wedlock, eight of whom live to mourn 
the departure of one of the best of fathers.  After his marriage he was for 
some years a resident of first Monroe and then Lee counties, in Georgia.  It 
was in the latter county that he was first impressed with the fact that he had 
a Saviour, who had died that he might live, and whose laws should be obeyed.  
Accordingly he joined the Baptist church about the year 1845.  Setting the 
grand example of a man in the full pride of his strength and manly dignity, 
consecrating his life to the God who created him.  In 1849 he moved to Pike 
county, Alabama, where he has since resided until his death, which occurred at 
his residence near this city on the 3rd, inst.  Shortly after settling in Pike 
he connected himself with the Antioch Baptist church, and about the year 1852 
assisted in organizing the First Baptist church of Troy, of which he remained a 
member until the organization of the Second Baptist church, where he continued 
his membership until the day of his death.  His good wife, and the mother of 
his offspring, died on the 31st, of March, 1880, after which he married Mrs. 
Eliza Battle, who survives him.  The life of T. K. Mullins is worthy of 
emulation, and if the rising generation of young men would only strive to be 
just as upright in all their dealings, and just as devoted to home, native land 
and the God of heaven as was T. K. Mullins, the world would be left much 
happier and better than when they found it.  Long life to the memory and 
eternal peace to the soul of such a man, are sure and just rewards.
  He has Ancestral File number BZK6-KT.  [FAMILY NOTES:  Name "Thomas Knox 
Mullins".   Was of Irish ancestory.  Moved to Alabama in about 1849.  Died in 
1885 or 1886
RESEARCH NOTES:   Middle name "Kinion/Kenan"(?) instead of Knox per LDS Family 
History Records.]
     "Across the road from the Allred plantaton was the plantation of Thomas 
Kinion Mullins.  He was born in North Carolina on January 16, 1809, and moved 
to Georgia with his father in 1817.  He married Amelia Brockman in Green 
County, Georgia, on December 9, 1830.  They moved to Pike County in 1849.  
Thomas K. Mullins was an important figure in the Baptist church in Troy.  He 
had been a member of the church at Hephzibah from 1860 to 1865, when he and his 
wife moved their memberships to the First Baptist Church in Troy.  He was 
largely responsible for the organization of the Second Baptist Church in Troy, 
and the church disbanded soon after his death.
     Thomas K. Mullins was the father of eleven children.  Three of his 
daughters became widows and returned to the plantation to live with their 
parents.  These three were Fannie Mullins Perdue, Mary Mullins Talbot and Nan 
Mullins Ruffin.  Another daughter, Ursula Antoinette Mullins, married Joel D 
Murphree, Sr., on January 18, 1855.
     After the death of his first wife in 1880, Thomas K Mullins married a 
widow, Eliza Battle.  Mullins died in December 1886."   ("One Hundred Fifty 
Years in Pike County Alabama 1821 - 1971")

   "...pioneer settlers of Pike County, natives of Georgia....."   

He was married to Permelia (Amelia Antoinette) Howard Brockman (daughter of 
Bledsoe Brockman and Elizabeth Landrum) on 9 Dec 1830 in Greene Co., 
Georgia.21,22  Marriages:  Thomas K Mullins & Amelia Howard Brockman his wife 
were married December 9th A.D. 1830. (copied from Family Bible)


Additional Comments:
 Brother of Lewis /Louis Mullins of Dale Co., Al.Lewis died 1868.

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