Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-08-01

l read in your paper last week, with
deep sorrow, the announcement and
sad particulars of the tragic death Of
Dudley McMullen. whom had known
since 1858, be at that time being a
young man about % years of age, liv.
ing with his widow ed mother just a
mile north of Shuqualak on the Macon
road, on the left going north, the resi-
dence being situated about four him.
dred yards from the road in the center
of forty acre farm the family owned.
Mr.. McMullen was a contractor and
builder by trade and took jobs all over
the county. many of the county's
wooden bridges having been built in
those days by him.
He had style of wearing full face
of whiskers and this habit was still in
evidence the last time l met him which
was in 1896.
He had two brothers, Wesley and
I Jim. and two sisters, Miss Mackie.
whom l mentioned in connection with
the concert given in 1862 for the benefit
of the Lauderdale hospital, and Miss
Mary, who was an older sister, Dudley
being the Oldest of the five children.
The three boys all did valiant service
in the cause of the Confederacy, all be-
longing to cavalry but different compa-
MES and regiments.
Jim belonged to company raised in
Macon but with Shuqualak cortir
viz: s. B. Day, Ferd, Lon, u...
and Henry Greer, 81 Jenkins, Ebert
Hardy, Henry C. Haynes, Bill Beck,
Cozy Constantine, and was In the battle
in which Lieutenant Henry o. Beasley.
of Macon. was killed.
After the war these boys all returned
to their homes, but after few weeks
Wesley, who was a practical. double
entry book-keeper, went to Mobile in
search Of a position and obtained lu-
crative one with the wholesale grocery
firm of Brown, Ogletree & Co., as head
book-keeper, where he served until
1868, when he came hack to Mississippi.
taking up his abode 1t Meridian wh1rf
j he married si,s1izz 4auck. d. =. t,..es 4
Scf Capt. j. L. Duck, who, in 1S58-9-6O,
was captain Of the Quitman Light In
fantry, but which position he resigned
to accept the position of drill master at
the Meridian mastering in camp. and to
which place the family removed at the
close Of the war.
In the fall Of 1868 Wesley McMullen
was appointed United States deputy
revenue collector of the southern dis
trict Of Mississippi and served with
brilliance up to the time of his death in
1871.
Jim McMullen took up the work of
mill-wright and did work on mills and
gins all over the county.
Shuqualak's second station agent was
J. M. McGlathery, he having relieved
T. J. Dunlap in 1868, the company in
that year displacing all agents who
were not telegraph operators and filling
their places with men who were-tele-
graph service along the road having
been established in that year.
McGlathery had a tact of teaching
boys quickly the telegraph business and
one of the boys he taught went out
from that humble beginning and distin-
guished himself as an operator and as
successful business man. It is Jim
Dunlap that | refer to, he having at
tained to train dispatcher of the M. &
O., later being called to the G. N. 0. &
T. as such, at an increased salary, and
later to the Sunset Route" as train
dispatcher, at a still larger compensa-
tion, where he served for several years,
then going into the banking business,
he now being president and principal
stock holder in the Peoples Bank of !
Plaquemine. La, bank whose last
statement showed $5O,OOO capital paid
in; $4,000 surplus and $500 undivided
profits. Young Dunlap's mother is also
a stock holder in the bank, she and her
son owning practically all the stock.
In 1868 l remember having had to
ride all the way to Kosciusko, where
there was tannery owned by an old
man by the name of Campbell to have
a pair of cavalry boots made for my
brother, who belonged to the 9th Mis-
sissippi Cavalry. (Capt. Harper's COM
pany), and had to stay there four days
waiting for them to be made and pay
ing $5OO.0O in Confederate money for
them and was glad to get them at that.
J. j. HAYNIE.
mote: If there is a reader of the
BEACON who has copy of the old Ma
con Sun or Macon Tribune with the
story in it of the Burning OF the
Steamer Eliza Battle on the Tombigbee
River" in the fifties, written by me,