David C Mullins b 25 Nov 1860 Bold Camp Wise Co VA d 29 Mar 1931 Partridge, Letcher Co KY buried Maggard Cemetery, Letcher Co KY s/o Andrew "Andy" Mullins and Sarah Sally Maggard. David C Mullins m. 29 Apr 1886 Letcher Co KY to Jane Lewis b 15 Nov 1869 Collier's Creek, Partridge, Letcher Co KY d 27 May 1948 Taylor Co KY, d/o John J Lewis and Clerinda Kelly. Children of David C Mullins and Jane Lewis;

1. Della Mullins b 18 Mar 1887 d 22 Jul 1983 buried Maggard Cemetery, Ovenfork, Letcher Co KY

2. Rhoda Marie Mullins b 4 Sept 1888 d 17 Sept 1976 m. Charles Grant Smith b about 1888.

3. James Patton Mullins b 30 Aug 1890 d 15 May 1976 m. Lula M Greer and 2nd to Nora Scott Cornett.

4. Sarah Gertrude Mullins b 29 May 1892 d 7 Aug 1976 m. John Millard Cook b about 1892 m. 2nd Joe Paul Romeo b about 1892.

5. John Andrew Mullins b 27 Feb 1895 d 3 May 1986 m. Rose Belle Wells b about 1895

6. Ida Mae Mullins b 18 Sep 1897 m. John D Martin b about 1897.

7. Lelia Susan Mullins b 13 Apr 1901 m. Henry L Martin b about 1901.

8. Nancy Elizabeth Mullins b 15 Apr 1904 d 7 Jul 1984 m. Marion Thompson Owen b about 1904.

9. Mabel Lewis Mullins b 26 May 1906. This lady has a fascinating history. She was written about in the Louisville, Courier Journal in 1960 regarding her life as a nurse and her subsequent enlistment in the Army Nursing Corps as an Army nurse in the transcript of the following article;

Ex Army Nurse Runs Model Farm
Letcher Woman Takes to Soil After 30 Years in Service
By Larry Caudill

Whitesburg, Ky., July 23 (about 1960)... One of the most enthusiastic farmers in Letcher County (Kentucky) is pert and petite Mabel Mullins, 54, who gave up the hypodermic syringe and took up the rotary plow.

After 30 years of nursing, Miss Mullins retired as a major from the Army Nurse Corps. She returned to the old farmstead of her parents, Dave and Jane Lewis Mullins, along the Cumberland River at nearby Partridge.

Mabel is the youngest of nine Mullins children ... all living. The eldest, Miss Della Mullins, 73, lives with Mabel at the old home, which is three quarters of a century old, but has been renovated until it is as modern as tomorrow.

Another Mullins daughter, Mrs. Rhoda Smith, 72, lives at Oneca, Fla. Jim Mullins lives nearby at the mouth of Collier's Creek. Mrs. Sally Romeo, 68, lives at Whitesburg, and John Mullins, 65, lives at Centerville, Ind.

Switched to Army Nurse Corps When War Began

A career woman in the service of the Rural Electric Administration, Mrs. Ida Martin (Mabel's sister), 63, works at Corbin and gets home occasionally on weekends. Mrs. Leila Martin (Mabel's sister), 59, lives in nearby Cumberland, and Mrs. Nancy Owen (Mabel's sister), 56, in Tampa, Fla.

Miss Mabel Mullins attended the nearby Maggard County School and Pine Mountain Settlement School before nurse training at Berea College, Berea, Ky.

She practiced her nursing profession in hospitals at Maysville, Ky., Jenkins, Letcher County, Ky., and Ary, Perry County, Ky. When WWII began, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and started her Army career at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Soon Miss Mullins was in the South Pacific.

She went through a lot of the long fight of the American forces back to Japan and victory. She served in hospitals in New Caledonia, and New Hebrides on a tour lasting 27 months.

"I saw little of actual war," she said. "Once the New Caledonia area was attacked by Japanese planes, but all the bombs they dropped were duds. Still, I have never been so frightened in my life."

"Later in the Pacific Ocean our transport ship was attacked, and there was real danger, but I was not so scared as I was in New Caledonia. I guess the difference was the droning of the planes buzzing over the hospital there."

After a stateside rest, Miss Mullins had a tour of nursing duty in France and England. Her last station was at Camp Lucky Strike, on the Normandy coast near the ocean. At the end of the war in 1945 she retired with the rank of major.

She is Considered a Progressive Farmer

Now she is considered an inquisitive, studious, and intelligent farmer, according to Cecil Hensley, agronomist for the Letcher County Soil Conservation District. She is co-operator in the farming program of the S. C. D.

"And a very cooperative co-operator," said Hensley. "Her farm work, from the lettuce bed to the 5000 short leaf pine trees in her reforestation project, is according to the most modern and most approved scientific methods."

"Do you do any nursing at all now?" she was asked.

"Very little," she replied. "I don't keep any livestock ... not that well advanced as a farmer .. so I don't even have a hog to which I could give a cholera shot."