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GENERATION #3 - MARTHA ALICE GILBERT MULLINS - MARTHA WAS BORN 12-04-1886 ON SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN NEAR CLEVELAND, VIRGINIA. SHE WAS THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF JOHN CUMMINGS GILBERT AND ELIZA CRABTREE GILBERT. SHE MARRIED GEORGE N. MULLINS ON 7- 21-1903. THEY MET WHEN HE WAS WORKING CUTTING TIMBER NEAR WHERE SHE LIVED. HE WAS STAYING AT A BOARDING HOUSE AND HE WOULD SEE HER GO BY. HE ASKED THE LADY WHO RAN THE BOARDING HOUSE ABOUT HER. HE WROTE HER A NOTE ON A SHOEBOX LID AND ASKED IF HE COULD COME SEE HER. THEY LIVED IN DICKENSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA NEAR CLINTWOOD MOST OF THEIR MARRIED LIFE. GEORGE WAS BORN 6-1-1879 AND DIED 3-24-1959. MARTHA DIED 7-13-1986. THEY WERE MEMBERS OF LITTLE HOPE OLD REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH. THEIR CHILDREN WERE MYRTLE, GLENN, ETHEL, BESSIE, FLORA (GENERATION # 4), EVERETT, RAYMOND, GEORGIA, AND ALICE. GLENN, RAYMOND, AND BESSIE DIED WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG. GEORGIA IS STILL LIVING AND LIVES NEAR JENKINS, KY. ALICE LIVES NEAR CLINTWOOD, VA.. MARTHA WAS A REMARKABLE WOMAN WHO WAS LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER. SHE WAS A WONDERFUL CHRISTIAN LADY WHO HELPED THE SICK AND THOSELESS FORTUNATE THAN HER. SHE WAS A GREAT COOK AND LOVED TO QUILT AND LOVED FLOWERS. GEORGE AND MARTHA ARE BURIED IN THE FAMILY CEMETERY NEAR CLINTWOOD, VA., THE ABOVE PICTURE WAS MADE ON THEIR WEDDING DAY.
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GEORGE N. AND MARTHA MULLINS
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