Ebenezer Mullen 1836-1916

MULLEN

Posted By: Dann Mullen (email)
Date: 5/9/2003 at 10:35:21

OBITUARY OF MR. MULLEN

Ebenezer Mullen, a Resident Here for Three Years, Passed Away Sunday, October 22, 1916

Ebenezer Mullen, a respected resident of this county for the past 43 years, most of the time a farmer in Pilot Grove township, passed away at his home, 103 Hammond street, at 2:30 p.m., from kidney and heart trouble after illiness of about ten days. He had been in failing health for about a year.

The funeral was held on Tuesday, there being services at the home in Red Oak at 11 a.m., by Rev. F.N. Willis, D.D., and at the Pilot Grove M.E. church at 1 o'clock by Rev. D.B.S. Prather of the Elliott church. Singing was by Mr. E.S. Foster, Mrs. F.J. Brodby, M.B. Harris and Ira Askey, and the pallbearers were Clark, B.O., B.W., and Russell Mullen, and Edwin and Clarence Ray. Burial was in Pilot Grove cemetery. Those who came from a distance in addition to all the children, were following: Elizabeth Boeller and Mrs. Laura Yoker, of Raymond, Neb., Mrs. Edith Morton, of Lewis; E.A. Garsite of Charlotte.

Mr. Mullen was a native of Eastern Canada, born February 29, 1836, and when a young man moved to Illinois. He came to this county and Pilot Grove township in 1873, living there until 1914, when he moved to Red Oak. He was married June 1, 1860, to Lucinda Stearns. His second marriage was to Mariah Garsite, in Pilot Grove township Dec. 6, 1883. Mrs. Mullen survives him, as do the following children: Clark Mullen, of Esbon, Kansas; B.O. Mullen, of Elliott; B.W. Mullen, of Pilot Grove township; Russell Mullen, of Red Oak; Mrs. Emma Ray, of Griswold; Mrs. Dora Latimer, of Montesano, Washington.

Deceased was a faithful member of the Methodist church for many years.