This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ci.2ADE/64.212 Message Board Post: You may also find this printed Biography interesting. I found it on Ancestry.com Submitter: Diane Drogich Subject: Andrew Clinton Mullis Message: Andrew Clinton Mullis The following brief sketch of Andrew Clinton Mullis does not tell all the important deeds in the various walks of this useful man's life, but it will serve to show what one of grit can do in the face of obstacles. He was born in Taylor township, December 9, 1832. He had no chance to go to school. His father dying when he was twelve years old, he was compelled to stay at home and work on the farm, where he remained until he entered the army in defense of his country. Enlisting in 1862 in Company E, Ninety-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, he served as a private for one and one-half years, then re-enlisted in Company I, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served as brigade teamster until he was discharged in 1865. After the war he rented land in Taylor township, where he lived for sixteen years. Then he bought forty acres in said township and built a home in 1895 and made many substantial improvements, until he now has a fine home and an excellent farm of three hundred acres. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising. He is a Republican and a member of the Church of God. He married Martha Thompson in 1867. She lived in Bloomfield. They have three children, namely: Indiana, who married Willis Leggwood, of Bloomfield; Lulu, who married Lucian Chancy, of Mineral City, Indiana; he was in the Spanish-American war; Winona, who lives at home. Mrs. Mullis is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Mr. Mullis is the son of Reuben Mullis, a native of Rush county, Indiana. He married Nancy Knox, of Ohio. They came soon after they were married to Greene county, where they secured one hundred and sixty acres of land. He was a hard worker and soon had the land cleared and a good home on it, in which he lived until his death. He was a Whig and a member of the Methodist church. He made his influence felt wherever he went. They had ten children, nine of whom are still living. They are: Robert, a farmer at Koleen, Indiana; Margaret, widow of Benjamin Haywood, of Mineral City; Sarah Ann, wife of James Chaney, also of Mineral City; Sophia, who married Daniel Pruett, both now deceased; Andrew Clinton, the subject of this sketch; Thomas, a farmer of Taylor township; Eli, of Taylor township; Alfred, of Taylor township; Malissa, who married Charles Hasler, of Taylor township. Source: "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1908.