Carroll County MD Archives Biographies.....Pulliam, Isaac 1848 - 1932 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000642 June 3, 2005, 4:33 pm Author: oral history from Iva Pulliam Isaac was born Feb 28, 1848, the son of William Frank Pulliam (Pullem) and Sarah Trussler (Truslow). The family lived in Falmouth (Stafford Co) until after the Civil War. Isaac came alone to Carroll County Maryland to work in the Oakland woolen mills (Maryland). The owner, John Melville, came from Virginia, so perhaps he even had a mill near Fredericksburg and Isaac may have worked with him there. The mill was a total processing of the wool in the various departments. Isaac and his entire family worked in this mill. They lived in company houses. Isaac and Lucinda lived in the corner end one, and Iva's family (Annie and Alfred) lived next door. Isaac had been married before Iva's grandmother (Lucinda). He actually had two families and used very similar names for the second family. Iva thought the 1st wife might have been named Abigail. The first wife died. They had several daughters and one sone who left home. Iva's mother, Annie, tried for years to locate him. After Isaac married Lucinda, they had 6 children - 5 girls and a boy. The boy died tragically at age 17, when he accidentally shot himself crawling under a fence while he was hunting. There was quite a bit of gossip at the time that he had been murdered by his best friend, but the family knew this was not true, it was an accident. The youngest daughter, Ruby, lso died young at 28 possibly from appendicitis. Something which could be cured today. She was married to Walter Grice and they had one daughter, Pauline. The daughter, Blanche, was married to Charles Walther and they had a son, Cyril. Charles died, she and her son went to live in Smithton, PA. They stayed with Albert and Sadie and she helped her Aunt Agnes in the hotel. She was very close to Sadie. Isaac and Lucinda went to Smithon to live with Blanche for a while. But they were very unhappy there, and Iva's dad, Alfred, built them a small two room house in the back of their house (in Maryland) Isaac was thought to be very intelligent and logical, but just never did apply it to get anywhere. He was not very loving to the grandchildren and they mostly avoided him because they never knew how he would act towards them when he was drinking. In Maryland there were mixed feelings about the War. The Church split and the New Oakland Church was considered to be Democrat and the Old Oakland was Republican. They belonged to the New Oakland one and Isaac and Lucinda are buried in the New Oakland Methodist Church Cemetery Cemetery. Row 6 Stone 17-Pulliam, Isaac J. born-02/28/1848, died-02/22/1932 Row 6 Stone 18-Pulliam, Lucinda born-02/27/1863, died-10/05/1943 Row 6 Stone 19-Pulliam, Isaac James born-08/26/1901, died-12/23/1918 Iva was born July 9, 1913 and married Jan 2, 1931. After his death, Lucinda moved in the house with her daughter, Annie and she lived to be 88. Isaac was probably 20 years older than Lucinda Dixon and their first child, Annie was born when he was 40 years old, 188. Lucinda was a devoted wife and mother and a regular church goes. census: 1900 United States Federal Census > Maryland > Carroll > Freedom > District 125 Pulliam, Isaac w m Feb 1848 52 VA VA VA Loom fixer Wool Mill Lucinda wife Feb 1863 37 married 13 years 5 children 4 living VA VA VA Weaver Wool Mill Annie E. Aug 1888 11 MD VA VA Ida Maud Apr 1892 Mary Ellen Oct 1894 Blanche E. Feb 1897 MD ? , Charles Boarder 1895 24 MD MD MD 1920 United States Federal Census > Maryland > Carroll > Freedom > District 65 Pulliam, Isaac 71 Weaver Woolen Mills Lucinda 55 Mary E. 25 (born in PA) weaver woolen mills Ruby B 16 MD weaver woolen mills Walthers, Blanche E. 22 wd weaver woolen mills Cyril G son 4 10/12 Charles A s 4/12 1930 United States Federal Census > Maryland > Carroll > Freedom > District 8 Pulliam, Issac 82 37 (age at 1st marriage) both could read and write Lucinda 67 22 (age at first marriage) Young, Alfred W. 44 19 age at marriage Annie E 41 16 age at marriage Evelyn W. 24 Iva C 16 Melville, George H. 38 VA MD MD $10,000 (I think this is owner) Dorothy F 34 VA VA VA History 1903: The largest factory in the county is the Oakland Woolen Mills, in Freedom district, which employs 154 men, twenty-six women and thirty-two children, a total of 212 persons, with an annual pay roll of $70,000. In Oakland the cotton factory became the Melville Woolen Company in 1873 and began to manufacture woolen goods and carpet. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb