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129th Regiment Virginia Militia (Carter’s Company)

08 Thursday Oct 2015

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The 129th Regiment Virginia Militia, commanded by Colonel John DeJarnett, consisted of men primarily from Logan County, (West) Virginia. The 129th existed to protect Logan County. Carter’s Company, captained by Barnett “Barney” Carter, consisted of many Harts Creek men, all of whom enlisted on 27 August 1861 at Logan Court House, Logan County, (West) Virginia. The 129th, including Carter’s Company, participated in the Battle of Boone Court House on 1 September 1861 and the Battle of Kanawha Gap on 25 September 1861. In 1862, Carter’s Company essentially became Company D, 34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry. (This list will be updated periodically.)

Albert Abbott*, Abbotts Branch

Benjamin Adams, Crawley Creek

John Quincy Adams, Harts Creek

Aaron Adkins

Canaan Adkins, West Fork of Harts Creek [Lincoln County Feud]

Enos “Jake” Adkins, 1st Lieutenant, Douglas Branch (Ferrellsburg)

Isaac Adkins, Jr., Harts Creek (Big Branch area)

Isaac Adkins, 2nd Sergeant, Harts Creek (Big Branch area)

John H. Adkins

Lewis Baisden

Riland Baisden

Anderson Barker

Benjamin Barker

James M. Berry

Jacob Browning

Josiah Browning, 4th Sergeant

Andrew Jackson Browning, Harts Creek

Allen B. Brumfield, Big Ugly Creek

Evermont Ward Brumfield, Big Ugly Creek

Alexander Bryant, Harts Creek

George Bryant, Harts Creek

James Bryant, Harts Creek

Rufus Bryant, Harts Creek

Ed Burchett

William F. B_____

Jesse W. Carter

Barnett Carter, Captain, Hoover Fork of Harts Creek

John C. Chapman, 1st Corporal

Garland Conley, Smokehouse Fork of Harts Creek

Guy Conley, Conley Branch (Chapmanville)

Henry Conley, Conley Branch (Chapmanville)

Maston Conley, Chapmanville

Oliver Conley, Crawley Creek

Reuben Conley

Thomas Conley, Conley Branch (Chapmanville)

James Dalton, Harts Creek

Martin Dalton, Harts Creek

Harvey S. Dingess*, Crawley Creek

Henderson Dingess, Smokehouse Fork of Harts Creek [Lincoln County Feud]

James Dingess, 3rd Corporal

John Dingess

Peter C. Dingess, Crawley Creek

William A. Dingess

William S. Dingess

Mathias Elkins

William D. Elkins*, 2nd Corporal

D.J. Estep

Shade Estep, 4th Corporal

Fulton D. Ferrell, 3rd Sergeant

James P. Ferrell, Big Ugly Creek

Samuel Ferrell

Isaac Fleming

William T. Fowler, West Fork/Marsh Fork of Harts Creek

Admiral S. Fry, Green Shoal

Christian T. “Jack” Fry*, Abbotts Branch

Fleming Fry

Lewis “Jupiter” Fry, Big Ugly Creek (Gill)

Peter Fry

Robert Fry

Russell Fry

Edward Garrett, 2nd Lieutenant

Isaac G. Gartin, 2nd Lieutenant, Little Harts Creek

George Godby

Tolbert S. Godby, 1st Sergeant

Isaac O. Jeffrey

Henderson Lambert, Bend of the River

William C. Lambert, Bend of the River area

Ira Lucas

Calahill McCloud, Harts Creek or Twelve Pole Creek

Charles McCloud

Jackson McCloud

John McCloud

B. McNeely

James Mullins

Martin Van Buren Mullins, Harts Creek

Robert “Bob” Mullins, Harts Creek

Spencer A. Mullins, Bridge Branch area (Atenville)

Weddington Mullins, Harts Creek

Daniel “Bill” Nester, Browns Branch

William Owens

Arnold Perry

D.H. Perry

Jeremiah Perry

Thompson Perry

Andrew Robinson, Harts Creek

John R. Robinson

Griffin Stollings

Jefferson Thompson, Thompson Branch of Harts Creek

Alford Tomblin, Sr., Harts Creek

Alford Tomblin, Jr., Harts Creek

James Tomblin

Moses Tomblin

Burbus C. Toney, Green Shoal area (Toney)

Squire Toney, Big Ugly Creek

Andrew Jackson Vance

Abner Vance, West Fork of Harts Creek

Addison Vance

Lewis Vance

James Wills

Abijah “Bige” Workman

David Workman

John W. Workman

Moses Workman

Obediah Workman

William Workman

(*) denotes my direct ancestors

Baisden Family Cemetery (2014)

29 Monday Jun 2015

Posted by in Cemeteries, Whirlwind

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The Baisden Family Cemetery, which I visited on 22 June 2014 is located 2.1 miles up Buck Fork of Harts Creek in Logan County, West Virginia. The Mathias “Tice” Elkins family, including Albert F. Gore (Elkins), originally used the cemetery. Today, it is best known as Troy Vance Cemetery. Troy Vance first married Emily Gore, granddaughter of Tice and Pricy (Mullins) Elkins, then married Almeda Baisden, daughter of Thomas and Josephine (Mullins) Baisden. Emily and Almeda were first cousins. Both of Troy’s mothers-in-law are buried in the cemetery (they were sisters), as are both of his fathers-in-law. Troy’s mother married first to Wash Vance, then to Albert F. Gore (Elkins); in other words, his widowed mother married his widowed father-in-law. The McCloud family connects to the cemetery through Albert F. Gore’s first wife, Sarah McCloud.

Row 1

Jamie Adams (03 January 1985-03 January 1985); d/o Timmie and Renee Adams

Leroy Adams (20 October 1959-22 October 1959); s/o Andy and Eunice Adams

Andy Adams (23 August 1932-07 September 1963); s/o Fred and Margaret (Baisden) Adams

Eunice F. Adams (29 May 1933-09 September 1984)

Elaine Adams (20 December 1955-30 July 2004)

(gap)

Cary Baisden (09 July 1910-07 January 1985); s/o Thomas and Josephine (Mullins) Baisden

Millard Baisden (20 January 1934-07 August 1978); s/o Cary and Lucille Baisden

Lucille Baisden (02 October 1910-01 March 1999); m. Cary Baisden

Larry David Canty (06 June 1947-06 June 1947); s/o Charles and Juanita Canty

Row 2

Rock that reads: “D.S.”

unmarked rock headstone and footstone

Lizzie Beth Burns; possibly d/o Stephen and Eleanor (Workman) Lambert; born about 1847; m. George Burns; died 1910s

Marthey Kinsor; possibly d/o Barney and Mahulda (Mullins) Carter; m. Michael Kinser; died 16 September 1935

unmarked rock headstone

unmarked rock footstone

unmarked rock headstone and footstone

unmarked rock headstone and footstone

(large gap)

Almeda Vance (23 February 1893-__ December _____); NOTE: Almeda Vance has a more modern tombstone elsewhere in the cemetery

Row 3

large pointed rock headstone

Dow John Jackson (1933-1973); s/o John and Mattie (Adams) Jackson

possibly two graves with no stones

unmarked rock headstone and foostone

Willie Carter (February 1908-February 1908)

Mary Carter (04 September 1868-27 February 1908); d/o George and Elizabeth (Lambert) Burns; m. James Carter

unmarked rock headstone and footstone

nice headstone with no writing

unmarked rock headstone

unmarked rock headstone and footstone

unmarked rock headstone

Almeda Vance (23 February 1893-09 June 1955); d/o Thomas and Josephine (Mullins) Baisden; m1. Vess Mullins; m2. Troy Vance

Woodrow Mullins (25 November 1920-08 February 1945); s/o Albert and Lena (Baisden) Mullins; WV PFC 149 INF WWII

Thomas Baisden (1857-1936); s/o James R. and Elvira (Johnson) Baisden

Josie Baisden (1865-1938); d/o Robert and Almeda (Mullins) Mullins; m. Thomas Baisden

Randolph Baisden (06 May 1904-31 July 1975); PVT US ARMY WWII

Row 4

unmarked rock headstone

Mrs. Lee T. Curry (1903-1966)

unmarked rock headstone

Troy Vance (01 January 1894-14 November 1941); s/o Washington and Sarah (Adams) Vance; m1. Emily Gore; m2. Almeda (Mullins) Baisden

Emily Gore Vance (06 November 1889-09 March 1920); d/o Albert F. and Sarah (McCloud) Gore

nice stone with illegible writing

Clive? Dingess (21 February 1909-21 March 1909)

Jace? Dingess (24 January 1908-26 January 1909)

Lee Gore (November 1891-01 November 1906); s/o Albert F. and Sarah (McCloud) Gore

Norman Gore (________ 13-__ October ____); s/o Albert F. and Sarah (McCloud) Gore; born August 1897

Noah Gore (31 January 1894-23 September 18__)

(large gap)

James C. Jonas (09 November 1941-23 November 1941)

Row 5

Leana Adams (08 September 1890-01 November 1932); NOTE: She has a modern tombstone elsewhere in the cemetery

Mundy Adams (30 September 1930-10 October 1930); d/o B. Frank and Leana (Baisden) Adams

Leana Adams (08 September 1890-01 November 1932); d/o Thomas and Josephine (Mullins) Baisden; m. B. Frank Adams

Frank Adams (11 January 1905-14 April 1942); s/o George and Mary Jane (Mullins) Adams; m1. Leana Baisden; m2. Lizzie Bryant

Sally Adams Vance Gore (25 December 1873-31 January 1959); d/o Benjamin and Victoria (Dingess) Gore; m1. Wash Vance; m2. Albert F. Gore

Albert “Buster” Vance (25 October 1913-15 December 1989); s/o Troy and Emily (Gore) Vance

(gap)

Pricy E (died 05 July 1905); d/o Peter and Jane (Mullins) Mullins; born April 1832; m. Mathias “Tice” Elkins

Tice E (died 13 June 1885); s/o Archibald and Hannah (Stephenson) Elkins; born about 1829

Charles McCloud (died 1914); s/o John and Sarah (Vance) McCloud/Browning; born May 1835; his brother Anderson McCloud married Rhoda J. Elkins, d/o Tice and Pricy; his brother Lewis McCloud married Lydia E. Elkins, d/o Tice and Pricy

Daught Adams (31 March 1931-31 March 1931)

unmarked rock headstone

Edmond Adams (06 July 1943-01 November 1949); Freddie and Margaret (Baisden) Adams

Earl Baisden (22 April 1907-05 July 1953); s/o Thomas and Josephine (Mullins) Baisden

Row 6

Jessie J. Baisden (1928-1929); s/o James R. and Sadie (Carter) Baisden

Lois Baisden (1927-1927)

Sims Index to Land Grants (1952)

20 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by in Big Harts Creek, Big Ugly Creek, Fourteen, Green Shoal, Harts, Little Harts Creek, Queens Ridge, Sand Creek

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Persons receiving land grants between 1812 and 1860, including acreage totals, for the following streams located in Logan and Cabell counties, (West) Virginia: Big Harts Creek, Big Ugly Creek, Fourteen Mile Creek, Little Harts Creek, Sand Creek, Kiah’s Creek, Green Shoal, Brown’s (Abbott’s) Branch, Douglas Branch, Low Gap Branch, Lilly’s Branch, and Limestone (partial). This list does not necessarily reflect ALL of the person’s landholdings; only land in the Harts Creek community are noted. Also, some persons are duplicated due to receiving grants individually or jointly. Known nonresident landowners are denoted by a (*). My ancestors are placed in bold font. Note: This is a work in progress.

Anthony Lawson*, 6502 acres

Anthony Lawson et al*, 3400 acres

Charles Lattin et al, 2667 acres

John H. Brumfield et al, 2328 acres

Spencer A. Mullins, 2145 acres

John Dempsey et al*, 2090 acres

Isaiah Adkins, 2058 acres

Evermont Ward*, 1800 acres

William Johnson, 1794 acres

Elijah A. Garten, 1620 acres

Charles J. Stone, 1610 acres

Hamilton Fry, 1488 acres

William Johnson et al, 1435 acres

Burbus C. Toney, 1332 acres

William Straton et al*, 1319 acres

Thomas Dunn English*, 1085 acres

Thomas A. Childers et al*, 1050 acres

Samuel Damron et al, 1043 acres

Joshua Butcher, 808 acres

William Straton*, 791 acres

Elijah A. Garten et al, 770 acres

Isaac Adkins, 720 acres

Moses Harrison et al, 700 acres

Abner Vance, Jr., 642 acres

George Hager et al, 600 acres

Isaac Adkins, Jr., 595 acres

Samuel Short et al*, 561 acres

Elias Adkins, 560 acres

George Hager, 520 acres

Crispin S. Stone et al, 485 acres

John H. Brumfield, 480 acres

Moses Brown, 412 acres

Peter Mullins, 408 acres

Robert Lilly, 393 acres

Joseph and Dicy Adams, 384 acres

Charles Lattin, 378 acres

Albert Abbot, 370 acres

Christian T. Fry, 367 acres

Lorenzo D. Hill, 340 acres

Lewis Adkins et al, 325 acres

Enos “Jake” Adkins, 320 acres

Richard Elkins, 311 acres

Obadiah Merret*, 310 acres

Squire Toney, 307 acres

Isaac Samuels et al*, 300 acres

William T. Nicholls et al*, 296 acres

Samuel Lambert, 269 acres

Richard Elkin, Jr. et al, 260 acres

Anderson Barker, Jr. et al, 250 acres

Noah and William Haner et al, 250 acres

William Smith et al, 250 acres

Harvey S. Dingess, 242 acres

Abijah Workman, 239 acres

Samuel Ferrell, 238 acres

Noah Haner et al, 235 acres

Charles F. Dingess & Peter Dingess, Jr., 233 acres

Henderson Dingess, 233 acres

Richard Elkins et al, 230 acres

James Justice*, 220 acres

John Fry, 204 acres

Elias and Allen Adkins et al, 200 acres

James Smith and Harvey Smith, 200 acres

James Toney et al, 200 acres

James Browning, 190 acres

William Buffington et al*, 190 acres

Charles Lucas, 190 acres

James Wilson et al*, 190 acres

James Butcher, 185 acres

Jacob Stollings, 185 acres

A.F. McKendree et al*, 185 acres

Grandison B. Moore, 180 acres

Peter Dingess, 170 acres

Joseph Fry, 162 acres

Robert Elkin, 160 acres

Admiral S. Fry, 157 acres

Robert Hensley, 154 acres

Richard Vance, 153 acres

Levi Collins, 150 acres

Harvey Elkins, 148 acres

James Smith, 148 acres

Reese W. Elkins, 125 acres

John Fry, Jr., 125 acres

Price Lucas, 125 acres

Ralph Lucas, 125 acres

William Dalton, 123 acres

Andrew Dial, 120 acres

Lewis Adkins, 116 acres

Patton Thompson, Jr., 112 acres

John W. Adams, Jr., 110 acres

Charles Adkins, 110 acres

Obediah Workman, 106 acres

Stephen Lambert, 105 acres

John Goare, 104 acres

Moses Workman and John Workman, 100 acres

James Toney, 95 acres

Francis Browning, 94 acres

Alexander Tombolin, 94 acres

Allen Butcher, 93 acres

Ira Lucas, 93 acres

William P. Blankenship, 92 acres

David Robison, 92 acres

Joseph Gore, 90 acres

Archibald Elkins, 87 ½ acres

Anderson Barker et al, 85 acres

Isaac Fry et al, 85 acres

Paris Vance, 84 acres

William Brumfield, 75 acres

Henry Conley, 75 acres

Squire Toney et al, 75 acres

Andrew Dial et al, 73 acres

Burbus C. Toney et al, 73 acres

Henry Adkins, 70 acres

Isaiah and Charles Adkins, 70 acres

John W. Sartin, 70 acres

Barnabus Carter, 65 acres

Mathias Elkin, 63 acres

Patton Thompson, 62 acres

Samuel Parsons*, 60 acres

Harvey and Andrew Elkin, 55 acres

Meken Vance, 55 acres

Joel Elkins, 50 acres

Jeremiah Farmer, 50 acres

Baptist Fry, 50 acres

William Smith, 50 acres

Thomas P. Spears, 50 acres

Charles Spurlock, 50 acres

Samuel Vannatter et al, 50 acres

Edmund Toney, 46 acres

Sally McComas et al heirs, 45 acres

George Perry, 44 acres

Arnold Perry, Jr., 40 acres

William Thompson, 40 acres

John Workman, 40 acres

Josephus Workman, 40 acres

John Rowe, 38 acres

Melville Childers et al*, 37 acres

John Dalton, 34 acres

Polly Vance and William Vance (son), 33 acres

Garland Conley, Jr., 32 acres

Moses Workman, 26 acres

William Brown, 25 acres

Royal Childers*, 25 acres

Wesley Vance, 25 acres

Richard Vance, Jr., 13 acres

Source: Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia (Charleston, WV: State of West Virginia, 1952). Thanks to the West Virginia State Archives at the Cultural Center in Charleston, West Virginia, for use of the book.

In Search of Ed Haley 115

23 Thursday May 2013

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Ed Haley’s grandfather, Andrew Jackson Mullins, was born about 1843 to Peter and Jane (Mullins) Mullins. Jackson, as he was called, was named in honor of President Andrew Jackson, that early American icon. Like many folks in those days, Peter and Jane Mullins appear to have been caught up in the Jackson mystique. They even named one son Van Buren, after his vice president. Jackson Mullins was the first child born to Peter following the family exodus from Kentucky or Tennessee to Logan County, (West) Virginia. The 1850 Logan County Census listed him as seven years old. In 1860, he was eighteen. During the Civil War, Jackson served in the Confederate army. Brothers Weddington and Van Buren served as Confederates. In the late 1860s, Jackson married the slightly older Chloe Ann (Gore) Adams, a widow. Chloe had been born around 1840 to John and Margaret (Dingess) Gore, pioneer residents of Harts Creek. She had first married John Quincy “Bad John” Adams, a first cousin to Jackson, with whom she had four children: Dicy (born 1857), Joseph (born May 1858), John C. “Frock” (born c. 1861) and George Washington “Ticky George” (born 15 Jul 1864). She and Jackson had three children: Imogene Mullins (born c.1868), Peter Mullins (born May 1870), and Weddington Mullins (born April 10, 1872). Jackson and Chloe are thought to have lived on Trace Fork, perhaps at the present-day site of the Turley Adams home where they certainly lived in later years.

What little is known of Jackson Mullins — the man who partially raised Ed Haley — comes through deed records and census records. On February 13, 1869, his uncle Spencer A. Mullins wrote him a note that read: “Mr. A.J. Mullins and wife: you will pleas Come down and git your Deed for the Buck fork Land. I will not pay the taxes any longer.” In 1869 he purchased 200 acres of land on the creek from Riland Baisden. The next year he was listed in the 1870 census as 27 years old with 700 dollars worth of real estate and 200 dollars worth of personal property. His daughter — Ed Haley’s mother — first appeared in that record as “Em. Jane Mullins,” age two.  An April 1871, Justice Jeremiah Lambert provided a receipt to him for $2.80 “in the cost of the peace warrant in favor [of] him against Benjamin Adams.” An 1871 Logan County tax receipt listed A.J. Mullins as a resident of “Hearts Creek.” On February 28, 1877, the Logan County Court appointed him as “Surveyor of Roads in Precinct No. 76 in place of Weddington Mullins for the time of two years commencing April 1, 1877.” On December 17, 1877, the Logan County Clerk provided a receipt to him for recording a deed from Henderson Dingess and wife (parents to Hollene Brumfield). An 1878 tax receipt shows him in charge of six tracts totaling 244 acres under the ownership of “John Adams Heirs.”

The 1880 Logan County Census listed Jackson as 37 years old, while his wife was 40. Children in the household were John C. Adams (aged eighteen), George Adams (aged 15), “Emagane Mullins” (aged 12), Peter Mullins (aged 9), and Weddington Mullins (aged 6). That same year, Jackson sold five tracts of land totaling over 200 acres to brother-in-law Mathias Elkins for 3,000 dollars. He also sold 50 or so acres on Buck Fork to his father Peter and stepmother Elizabeth for 600 dollars. In February 1881, the Logan County Court reappointed him to relieve his brother Weddington as Surveyor of Public Roads for Precinct No. 76 “commencing April 1st, 1881.” That same year, he secured land from the John Q. Adams estate and bought 100 acres on Trace Fork from A.A. Low, attorney. On August 7, 1883, Enoch Baker, a timber boss on Harts Creek,  provided a receipt to him for fifteen dollars “in payment for a Stove.” In 1886, Jackson deeded 37 tracts on Trace Fork to stepsons Joseph and John Adams. On April 2, 1888, he signed a promissory note agreeing to pay William Abbott $41.75 plus interest within a year. Because he was illiterate, he signed the note with an “X.”

In March 1891, Jackson and Chloe Mullins deeded their property on Trace Fork to their three children: Imogene Haley, Peter Mullins, and Weddie Mullins.

In the 1900 Logan County Census, Jackson gave his birth date as March of 1845, while Chloe gave hers as July 1834. Ed Haley first appears in the 1900 Logan County Census as “James E. Haley, born August 1885,” and living in their home. His birth date of 1885 was two years later than what was given by the Haley family records. By 1910, Jackson lived with son Peter Mullins, while Chloe was in the home of Weddie Mullins’ widow, Mag. Ed was absent from the census entirely, indicating that he was gone from Harts by that time. A few years later, in 1915, Jackson Mullins died and was buried in an unmarked grave at the Bob Mullins Cemetery on main Harts Creek. His widow died in 1919.

In Search of Ed Haley 114

21 Tuesday May 2013

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Ed Haley’s roots, at least on his mother’s side, originated in the high mountains of Appalachia somewhere in that wild section of country situated along the Virginia-Kentucky state line. Peter Mullins, Haley’s great-grandfather, was born around 1804 in Kentucky or, according to one source, in North Carolina. The son of a notorious counterfeiter, “Money Makin’ Sol” Mullins, and reported descendant of those mysterious people the Melungions, Peter chose for his wife Jane Mullins, a first cousin. Between 1830 and 1858, he and his wife had at least eleven children. The sixth child, Andrew Jackson Mullins, was Ed Haley’s grandfather. Peter and his wife initially lived in Pike County, Kentucky, near Clintwood, Virginia. Based on census records, the family remained in Kentucky throughout the 1830s. Family tradition, however, states that Peter relocated to Marion County, Tennessee, due to his involvement in a counterfeiting operation. Around 1841-42, he traveled north to Upper Hart in what was then Logan County, Virginia, and settled near a sister, Dicy Adams. In 1842, he bought 25 acres of land from Abijah Workman and Mekin Vance on Hoover Fork. Deed records indicate that he operated a mill on Hoover. Two years later, he acquired 50 acres on the “first lower branch” of Trace Fork.

There are no stories chronicling Peter’s life on Harts Creek, nor any photographs to reveal anything about his physical features. All we have are census records and deed records — somewhat dry but noteworthy. In the 1850 Logan County Census, he was 46 years old and had 200 dollars worth of real estate. Three years later, in 1853, he bought 40 acres of land on Hoover from John and Sarah Workman and 37 additional acres on Trace. That same year, he sold a 35-acre tract (that included a “mill built by Mullins”) and a 25-acre tract on Hoover to son-in-law Barney Carter for 400 dollars. In 1854 he bought 30 acres on the Gunnel Branch of Trace Fork and another 1/4 acre on Hoover from Carter. On this latter property, he acquired a mill and dam, referenced in the deed. Three years later, he purchased three tracts of land totaling 97 acres on Trace. In 1858 he sold land on Hoover to son-in-law Mathias Elkins for 400 dollars. The next year, he sold a small acreage on Hoover to Carter for 100 dollars. In 1860, Peter appeared in Logan County Census records as 54 years old with 1,500 dollars worth of real estate and 2,000 dollars worth of personal property. In 1869, he bought 29 acres from Elkins for 100 dollars located “10 poles above the Alfred Tombline House” on Harts Creek.

In 1870, 63-year-old Peter Mullins appeared in the Logan County Census with his wife Jane and four of their children. Within in the next few years, Jane Mullins died. In 1874, Peter remarried to the much-younger Elizabeth (Johnson) Bryant and settled on Buck Fork. That same year, he sold a tract on the Bills Branch of Trace to son-in-law William Jonas, then bought 50 acres of land on Harts Creek above Lick Branch from Carter the following year. The 1880 Logan County Census listed him as a 68-year-old farmer; his wife Elizabeth was aged 40. That same year, he sold 80 acres on Trace to son Jackson Mullins — Ed Haley’s grandfather — who simultaneously sold him 50 acres of land on Buck Fork for 600 dollars. In 1882, he bought surface rights to a 100-acre tract and a 30-acre tract on Buck Fork and a 25-acre tract on Trace. Thereafter, in 1883, he sold 35 acres to son Solomon Mullins on Buck Fork for 250 dollars and 20 acres to Mary D. Mullins on Trace Fork for 100 dollars. In 1886, he sold 30 acres to Dicy Blair on Buck Fork.

Peter died around 1888 and was buried on Buck Fork under a large stone slab. In March of 1889, just a few months before the outbreak of the Haley-McCoy trouble, his heirs sold 20 more acres of his property on Buck Fork to Dicy Blair.