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Subject: [ALWILCOX-L] Re: MENDENHALL
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 00:45:10 -0400

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Hi:
My Thomas Mendenhall was born in NC, and he and his brother, Eli Mendenhall,
left North Carolina and came to Alabama. Thomas settled in Conecuh County
and Eli in Wilcox County. Eli was a good bit older than Thomas, and when
Thomas moved his family to Arkansas around 1844, Eli stayed in Alabama. In
fact, several of Eli's children were marrying around that time.

One of Thomas' many children was Eliza L. Mendenhall, born 15 September 1827
in Conecuh Co, AL. She evidently married Jesse B Gulley shortly after her
family moved to Ouachita Co, AR, around 1847. Eliza and Jesse had 3 children
--- Mary Jane Gulley b 25 Nov 1848, Sarah U "Sally" Gulley b 24 May 1850, and
Jesse A Gulley b 26 Mar 1855, all born in Ouachita Co, AR.

I found a great book in the Shreveport, LA library entitled "John Gulley, A
Planter in Alabama and Arkansas and His Descendants." It included data on
Jesse. The Gulleys lived in Monroe Co, AL, Dallas Co, AL, and then Conecuh
Co, AL by 1836. So, they probably traveled with the Mendenhalls to Arkansas.

Sometime around the same time his son, Jesse A Gulley, was born, Jesse B
Gulley died. He was shown as deceased on the tax roll of 20 June 1855.
Eliza married twice more, to Jones Blake and to Thomas McClure. These
marriages were to men many years her senior, and Eliza was three times a
widow. After the last marriage, she moved in with her daughter, Mary Jane
Gulley Potter, and remained with her for 24 years until her death on 31 May
1911. She, as was most her family, was buried at White Church Cemetery near
the Mendenhall plantation home in Nevada Co, AR.

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