LINCOLN CO, AR - EMANUEL ALEXANDER MULLIKIN - Bio

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EMANUEL ALEXANDER MULLIKIN (LINCOLN COUNTY, ARKANSAS)

Emanuel Alexander Mullikin was born November 16, 1842,in Anderson, South 
Carolina. He died December 9, 1899 in Feeneyville, a little village near Star 
City, Arkansas. He is buried in Heflin Cemetery, Star City.  Emanuel married 
Edney M. Geno, a daughter of Francis and Mary Geno.  There was one son born to 
this union. He was William Edward Mullikin, born June 13, 1866 in Anderson, 
South Carolina.  Edney had been previously married to George Feagen, and had a 
son, Thomas Jefferson Feagen.  When George died, she married Emanuel.  After the 
death of Edney, Emanuel was remarried to Margarette Elizabeth Morgan, who was 
also born in South Carolina, in 1868.  Since there were no more living 
relatives, Emanuel and Margarette kept Thomas Feagen, and raised him.  He later 
came to Arkansas with the family and eventually married F. L. Blasingame on 
September 7, 1884.  The Mullikin Family had relocated from South Carolina to 
Tippah County, Ripley, Mississippi.  When the Civil War broke our, Emanuel and 
his brother Leander Mullikin enlisted in the Mississippi Volunteers, Company F, 
23rd Regiment, at Jackson, Mississippi, in September 1861.  The Military History 
of the two brothers is the same.  They were captured at Fort Donelson, 
Tennessee, February 16, 1862, and sent to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana.  
They were in a Prisoner of War Exchange in August, 1862.  They were again sent 
to fight with their unit.  The 23rd surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi on 
July 4, 1863.  There were three children born to Emanuel and Margarette.  John 
Norman was born Movember 16, 1876.  We are told he died at an early age.  Rufus 
Kendrick Mullikin was born October 16, 1869, and Allie Agnes was born May 8, 
1873.  The Mullikin family left Mississippi, along with the McEntire, Pickens, 
Morgan and Blasingame Families.  Emanuel's family first went to Texas, but 
thought they would have a better living if they moved back into Arkansas.  
Around 1880, the families moved to, and settled in Lincoln County, Arkansas.  
They traveled to the area in covered wagons pulled by oxen.  The original 
Mullikin property remains in the family with the children of Rufus Kendrick 
having their homes there.  Margarette died in 1919, and is buried beside her 
husband in Heflin Cemetery, Star City.  Emanuel was kicked by a horse in 1899, 
and as a consequence of this accident, or "swamp fever", he died December 9th.  
After the death of Emanuel, Margarette came to live with her son Rufus Kendrick, 
and remained here until her death.
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