Life History

Notes

• Dorothy Mullinnix reports that only Bryson (Brison) stayed behind whenhis father Isaac C Mullinax moved with all his other children toGilmer County, Georgia.  She reports that he died in North Carolina,and that both he and his wife Sarah Berry Mullinax, were buried inAntioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Cherokee County, South Carolina.
  
  Mike Taylor, however, reports that they were buried in the AntiochBaptist Church Cemetery in Grover, Lincoln County, North Carolina.  Inote that Dorothy agrees with some other genealogies in reporting thatother members of the family were also buried in an Antioch Cemetery in(Jasper, ) Gilmer County, Georgia.
  --  http://www.gencircles.com/users/annmull/1/data/743
  
  1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 7 September,Hse/Fam #673
  Mullinax, Bryson  38 M W Farmer $200 Real Estate b NC
  Mullinax, Sarah  35 F W b NC
  Mullinax, Rachel  13 F W b NC
  Mullinax, Hannah  11 F W b NC
  Mullinax, Emily J  8 F W b NC
  Mullinax, John W 6 M W b NC
  Mullinax, Francis  2 M W b NC
  Mullinax, Sarah   1 month F W b NC
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 26 July, p 89(scan 424), No PO given, Hse/Fam #277
  Bryson Mullinax 46 M Farmer $1000 Real Estate $1020 Personal b NorthCarolina [born abt 1814]
  Sarah Mullinax 45 F North Carolina [born abt 1825]
  Rachel M Mullinax 22 F North Carolina [born abt 1838]
  John W Mullinax 14 M North Carolina [born abt 1846]
  Francis A Mullinax 12 M North Carolina [born abt Jan 1848]
  Sarah  C Mullinax 10 F North Carolina [born abt 1850]
  William C Mullinax 9 M North Carolina [born abt Jan 1851]
  Robert F Mullinax 7 M North Carolina [born abt Jan 1853]
  Louisa J Mullinax 2 F North Carolina [born abt 1858]
  Emilissa Mullinax 1 F North Carolina [born abt 1859]
  
  1870 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 23 June,Township #4, PO Nine House, page 3, Hse #20, Fam #21
  Mullinax, Bryson  54 M W Farmer $600 Real Estate $300 Personal  b NC[b abt 1816]
  Mullinax, Sallie  53 F W Keeping House b NC
  Mullinax, Columbus  18 F W Farm Laborer b NC
  Mullinax, Sarah C  19 F W Seamstress b NC
  Mullinax, Lenora  10 F W At Home b NC
  Mullinax, Asbury  22 M W Cabinet Maker b NC
  
  The child listed as Francis in 1850 and Francis A in 1860 is nowenumerated as Asbury in 1870.  This matches the child found in theMullinnix Files by Dorothy as Francis Asbury, b about 1848.  Bryson'swife Sarah is reported under the common nickname Sallie.
  
  I note that there is no listing here for Louisa J, who first appearedin the 1860 census.  She should have been about 12 years old in thiscensus, b 2 August 1858.  Family sources report she died 20 January1906.
  
  We see a discrepancy here in Bryson's age.  In 1850 he was 38, in 1860he was 46, gaining 8 years in age.  And in 1970 he is 54, gaining atotal of only 16 years in the 20-year span, a common occurrence in thethe 1800s censuses.  His reported age in 1850 would mean birth inabout 1811 or 12, when family sources tell us his actual birthday was19 February 1814, matching his reported age in 1860.  But the agereported in 1870 would make him born about 1816.
  
  I found Bryson's grave in the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery inBlacksburg, South Carolina.  This is in Cherokee County, formerly partof York County.
  
  Gravestone of Bryson Mullinax, Antioch Baptist Cemetery, Blacksburg,Cherokee, South Carolina
  photo by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 8 Oct 2009
  Bryson Mullinax
  Born Feb 19, 1814
  Died June 5, 1888
  Aged 74 years 4 months and 16 days

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Billie Girardeau,
• 2. World Family Tree Vol. 147
  • Pedigree #323
• 3. 1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 26 July, p 89 (scan 424), No PO given, Hse/Fam #277
• 4. Mullins-Mullinax Marriages, Mike Taylor Compilation
  • Name: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mike_in_katy;;
• 5. Gravestone of Bryson Mullinax, Antioch Baptist Cemetery, Blacksburg,Cherokee, South Carolina
  • photo by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 8 Oct 2009
• 6. 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 7 September, page 163, Hse/Fam #673
• 7. 1870 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 23 June, Township 4, PO Nine House, page 3 (36), Hse #20, Fam #21
• 8. Mullinnix Files by Dorothy
• 9. 1870 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 23 June, Township 4, PO Nine House, page 3, Hse #20, Fam #21