Katie, Know anything about Isaac Mullens (supposedly a brother of Rachel) who married Mary Cocke? Apparently, his father-in-law was appointed as his guardian and later he was sued by his mother for not supporting her. Very strange. Where did Thomas Johnson and Mary Mullens end up going? This is all I have: Rachel Mullen b. ca 1765 Virginia md Thomas Johnston/Johnson in April 1785 Washington County, Virginia by John Frost. They were in Russell County, Virginia in the late 1790s and early 1800s. Phil katie angermeyer wrote: > Billy, You are not off topic at all for me. That Fiddle Music of the Old > Frontier site you sent us may be the closest we get to the music of our > ancestors. > > Last spring, I found the Henry Reed fiddle site at the Library of Congress > doing a Google search for a geneaological query. I typed in the key words > "Mullins" and "Clinch", hoping to find more about a Rachel Mullins who m. > Thomas Johnson in Washington>(later)Russell/Lee Co VA in 1785. Turns out > Henry Reed's wife is a Mullins! Never-the-less, I got side tracked and had > to listen to Breakdown in A, both versions (which is the Clinch Mountain > Backstep) and watch the video of Alan Jabbour teaching us how to make the > bow scratch just so. Tis a fun place. I've told all the BC fiddlers I know > about it, and you never know in what unexpected place you will find out more > about your cousins. > > Katie > > PS, I was later kind of disappointed to find out that Rachel Mullins was not > my ggggg grandmother, because she married a different Thomas Johnson and > they lived somewhere else later. Oh sigh! I am not a cousin-in-law 7x > removed to the fiddler, Henry Reed. Too bad! KA >