Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Temperance and Franklin




Some lives are but a whisper in the wind, a touch of breeze before a storm, a sprite that passes so quickly you hardly realize that it was ever there. Dowd Franklin Mauldin, my third Great Granduncle, and youngest son of James O. Mauldin and wife, Mary A. Smith Mauldin, was one of those whispers. He made it to adulthood, but died very young.

Until recently, I didn't realize that Franklin had ever married, but he did. No marriage license exists, and I don't believe any children survived them. His wife was named Temperance, her maiden name unknown, her location prior to matrimony, and her fate afterwards, remain a mystery. Yet, for one brief halcyon moment, there existed Temperance and Franklin.


Dowd Franklin Mauldin had lost his father at about 6 years of age. The first record of his existence was in his father's 1848 estate file. His mother, Mary, was the executress.  In the August  1850 Session of the Court of Pleas and Quarters for Stanly County, North Carolina, Mary Mauldin was appointed guardian of her own minor children, James, Benjamin, Eliza, Parham and Franklin Mauldin.She submitted a $200 bond in conjunction with John Mauldin, Thomas Mauldin and John F. Stone as securities. John and Thomas were two of the older, adult children of James O. Mauldin.

Household members
NameAge
Mary Mauldin52
James Mauldin19
Mary Mauldin21
Benjamin Mauldin17
Eliza Mauldin15
Parham Mauldin12
Franklin Mauldin8

The 1850 census gives the ages of those children. Mary was 52, her daughter, Mary Jr. was 21, and therefore of seniority and not given to her mothers guardianship. James O. Jr. was 19, Benjamin II (as James O. Mauldin's brother was the 1st and his son the Jr.) was 17, Eliza 15, Parham 12 and Franklin 8. At this time they were living in Freeman's township, off of Jacob's Creek, where James land grant was located, and probably near the area where the family cemetery still exists, off of McNeil Road, east of Albemarle and north of Norwood. 




A decade later, Mary has relocated among a number of Smiths, who lived off of the Salisbury Road, north of Albemarle and had properties adjoining David Kendall. Why had she moved into this family group of dozens of Smiths? Had this move betokened her origins?


NameFrank Maulden
Age20
Birth Yearabt 1840
GenderMale
RaceWhite
Home in 1860Stanly, North Carolina
Post OfficeAlbemarle
Dwelling Number621
Family Number628
OccupationDay Laborer
Inferred MotherMary Maulden
Household members
NameAge
Mary Maulden62
Frank Maulden20
Elizabeth Maulden5
Ellen Smith21
Mary F Smith1

The 1860 census came with a basket of questions. Led by Mary 62, and Frank, listed as 20, when it was probably 18 or 19, instead, there were others in the household that left ominifarious questions. I have solved the question of whom 5 year old Elizabeth "Mauldin" was. I believe she was actually Mary's granddaughter, Mary Elizabeth Russell, born in 1854, who was the daughter of Eliza Mauldin, who had married William Henry Russell. Eliza had died in 1857, leaving her husband with two children, William Isaiah Russell born in 1852, and Mary Elizabeth. While Henry is found in 1860, living with his parents, Eli and Elizabeth Russell, along with his 7 year old son, his daughter is missing. This Elizabeth "Mauldin" appears to be the right age, and her surname was in error. There were two other individuals in the household, Ellen Smith, 21, and a baby, Mary F. Smith. Ellen was most likely the mother of Mary F. Smith. Who were they and how were they related to the Mauldins?

Archibald Mauldin, who passed away in 1857, included D. F. Mauldin in a codicil in his will.


"I bequeath to Franklin Mauldin thirteen 3/4 acres of land joining the part of land that falls to his share."

He left young Franklin nearly 14 acres that had joined Franklins part of their father's estate.


Another area where D. F. Franklin's name is found is in the estate papers of  Elizabeth Russell. Elizabeth is my 3rd Great Grandmother. Her husband, Eli Henry Russell passed away in 1854. The concantenation between this family and the Mauldins is complicated and plentiful.

My most direct connection is through their daugthers, Martha Margaret "Mattie" Russell, my second Great Grandmother, who married Frank Washington Mauldin, son of Thomas Alexander Mauldin, and a nephew of Dowd Franklin Mauldin. Another link is through their son, William Henry Russell, who married Eliza Mauldin, the youngest sister of D.F. Mauldin. It's also thought that Elizabeth's maiden name was Mauldin, but I'm begining to doubt that. I believe, instead, that someone,  somewhere along the line, confused Elizabeth, wife of Eli Henry Russell, with Eliza, who married her son, William Henry. Still, I have a presage that there may have been yet another link between the Russells and the Mauldins.

Elizabeth Russell was alive in the 1860 census. Her estate was probated in 1861. An estate sale took place on October 25, 1861. D. F. Mauldin and his brother, Parham made purchases on this day. Many purchases.




In the above section, D. F. purchased a cage, 12 lbs of picked cotton and 78 lbs of Cotton seed, while Parham purchased 4 1/4 lbs of picked cotton.

On this page, D. F. Mauldin purchased a side saddle, a tin pan, and one pitcher and dish. Parham bought a spinning wheel, a churn, 2 milk (spelled milch in those days) crocks, a coffee pot, and a pitcher. These purchases suggest both brothers were married by this time. D. F's purchase of a side saddle was probably either an engagement gift or a wedding present for his bride, Temperance. 

Other buyers at the estate auction were Sarah Tolbert (Talbert), John Thompson, Jerusha Hudson, Francis Marbury (Mabry), Alex Russell, (son of Elizabeth), Wiley Hudson, E. D.Swaringen, and John Poplin. 



Lastly, on this page, although there were multiple others, we find D. F Mauldin purchasing a 'slag', twice, from the estate of Elizabeth Russell, although I can't tell you exaclty what it was, possibily an aggregate of iron, glass or steel. Parham picked up a set of cups and saucers, and some slag himself. Other purchasers were Elizabeth's daughters Mary and Martha, Martha being my 2nd Great Grandmother, and  her son, Alexander. Again, the names of John Thompson, Ferdinand Foreman, Ben Upchurch, T. A. Simpson, George P. Ross, Sarah Tolbert and James Hinson are found. 


In the Court Minutes of the August, 1862 Session of  the Pleas and Quarters of Stanly County, NC we find the following three paragraphs, coincidentally right in a row. 

"Ordered by the Court that Sarah Mauldin be appointed administrator of James Mauldin, deceased upon her giving bond of three hundred dollars with W. F. Nash and W. J. Ross as Securities."

"Ordered by the Court that Temperance Mauldin be appointed administrator of Franklin Mauldin deceased upon her giving bond  of $200 with W. F. Nash and W. J. Ross securites, bond filled, she takes the usual oath  and letters of admininstration."

"Ordered by the Courth that James E. Mauldin be appointed administrator of David A. Mauldin."

L. Green, W. F. Nash and G.M Sides, were securities in the David A. Mauldin estate case.

So, Dowd Franklin had married Temperance between July 4, of 1860, when the 1860 census was taken by J. M. McCorkle, and August of 1862, when his bride was appointed the administrator of his estate. He was alive in October of 1861, when he made purchases at the Estate Sale of Elizabeth Russell. By the purchases of a few feminine items, such as a side saddle, he was probably married by then. It was a brief marriage.


Who were the other two Mauldins who seemingly died about the same time as D. F. Mauldin?



NameJames Mauldin
Enlistment Age30
Birth Date1832
Enlistment Date15 Mar 1862
Enlistment PlaceStanly County, North Carolina
Enlistment RankPrivate
Muster Date15 Mar 1862
Muster PlaceNorth Carolina
Muster CompanyK
Muster Regiment28th Infantry
Muster Regiment TypeInfantry
Muster InformationEnlisted
Muster Out Date27 May 1862
Muster Out PlaceHanover Court House, Virginia
Muster Out InformationKilled
Side of WarConfederacy
Survived War?No
Residence PlaceStanly County, North Carolina
TitleNorth Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster


James Mauldin referred to James O. Mauldin, Jr., D. F. Mauldin's brother, who had married Sarah Ross. Sarah Ross was the daugther of Wiley Ross and Sarah Dudney, and the granddaughter of Williamson Ross and Elizabeth Odom. The W.J. Ross who served as security for both Sarah and Temperance was Williamson Jackson Ross, son of Green David Ross, who was also a son of Williamson Ross and Elizabeth Odom. This made Sarah Ross Mauldin and W. J. Ross first cousins. As an aside, George P. Ross, who was with the Mauldin brothers among the purchasers at the estate sale of Elizabeth Russell, was George Packingham Ross, who married Martha Nobles and was the son of  Woodson Ross and Mary Sarah Smith. Woodson Ross was also a son of Williamson Ross and Elizabeth Odom, so one big connected family.

As can be seen on the above record, James O. Mauldin, Jr., was a casualty of the Civil War, being killed in battle at Hanover Court House, Virginia.

The third group, James E. Mauldin and David A. Mauldin, were James Ervin (1827-1905) and David Arnold Mauldin, son of Benjamin R. Mauldin Sr., brother of James O. Mauldin Sr. and so these two brothers were first cousins of Dowd Franklin Mauldin and James O. Jr. 

David Arnold Mauldin also enlisted in the Civil War. His records on Fold3 are minimal and mysterious. A remark on his Muster Roll record, where it states he enlisted at Salisbury in February of 1862 by Major Gibbs for a period of 1 year informed that he "Refused to re-enlist for this War and was thrown into a 12 months company"



Another records gives a list of units or duties he was assigned to: 

Capt. Griswold Co. Local Defense (Provost Guard)

Goldsboro and Home Guards, Goldsboro

Capt. Hoskins Co. Local Defense and Capt. Howards Co. Prison Guards.

Below is a statement attached to his profile taken from "Ye Mauldins" by Ervin Mauldin.

David enlisted Feb 1, 1862  in Company D, 42nd NC regiment for only one year. He was assigned to be a prison guard at the Confederate prison in Salisbury, NC in Rowan County (the prison where so many Union soldiers died during the war.)  Apparently what he saw there was too much for him because he refused to re-enlist for a second year.  However, this refusal was not accepted and he was reassigned for another year and thrown into a 12 month company. The records do not say what he did the rest of the time he was in service nor if he was ever discharged. His descendants say he returned home where he died of a disease he contacted during the war. In 1863, David's land and home were awarded to his wife and four children.

David was deceased by August of 1862, we can know because of the entry in the August 1862 Court Minutes. His estate was probated beginning in August of 1862 and continued until 1866. He has a marker at Silver Springs Church in Aquadale, where he and his wife, Mahala Elizabeth Whitaker, daughter of Samuel Nelson and Sophia Murray Whitaker, attended.


There is no record that I can detect, that Dowd Franklin Mauldin enlisted in the War. However, it was a nearly mandatory act for young men of the era, willing or not. I wonder if David's refusal had anything to do with his demise. I also wonder if the War had anything to do with the death of D. F. Mauldin. Did he enlist and the record lost? There were reports of men hung or executed by the Home Guard, but no names attached, except for a few in Montgomery County. Was Franklin a victim of the Civil War in some manner? He was deceased by August of 1862 and only 19 years old.




The last record of the brief life of Franklin Mauldin was his estate papers. Here, we learn, he had a bride named Temperance.



There was not a great deal of anything to his estate. The above is primarily food items.



The auction of his estate took place on September 8, 1862. W. F. Nash was the biggest purchaser of items, including the side saddle Franklin had bought of the Elizabeth Russell estate. Other names were W. J. Ross, C. J. Laton, Alex Russell, son of Elizabeth Russell, neighbor Marcus Carter, Isham Tolbert and Franklin's brother, Thomas Mauldin.

So, who was Temperance Mauldin? It's hard to surmise. The next census would have been the 1870, and there is no Temperance, or Tempy Mauldin, anywhere. Tempy would have likely been young, as was Frank. She could have remarried. The marriage may have been so brief, that she returned to her maiden name. Yet again, like Frank, she could have died young.

Temperance was not an uncommon name for the time and place, but not close to being as common as say Mary, or Nancy or Sarah.




It's one of those Quaker names, like Obedience, or Charity or Patience. While Tempy may not have lived until 1870, she would have had to have been alive in 1850 and 1860. While she could have been older than Frank, she could have not been too much younger, as she would have been a child, he himself being so young. Another thing, since their marriage was so brief, there was a good chance that she didn't live too very far away from him either. Since the numbers of possible Temperances was not overwhelming, I decided to look for possible candidates. 

First, it would seem that the Ellen Smith who was living with Franklin and his mother, Mary in the 1860 census would have been a perfect candidate for a bride, unless she was a close relative, which she could have been. Was she Temperance Ellen Smith?  I have no apophena for this theory, as I can find no trace of Ellen Smith, or her possible daughter, Margaret F. Smith, either before this census, or after.

There were two Temperances, or Tempies, who lived fairly close to the Mauldins in 1860, but both were married and much older than Franklin. First, there was Tempy Randle, who was 50 in 1860, and lived with her husband James C. Randall, 76. This was Temperance Pennington Randall, who hadn't married her husband until 1851, and  James C. Randall actually outlived young Franklin Mauldin, passing away in 1866.


The other nearby Tempie was Temperance McDaniel Lisk, who was 44 in 1860 and the wife of  William Jackson Lisk, and also ruled out as she and her husband were still together and living in 1870.




And so it went. Tempie Green, Tempie Ledbetter, Tempie C. Ledbetter, Temperance Austin and Tempie Russell, the Albemarle City Seamstress, were too old or too married. Tempie Lefler, Temperance K. Green and Tempy McDaniel were too young, far too young to marry between 1860 and 1861.

There were only a few, nearby, of proper age, who were not ruled out by marriage or otherwise. 

Temperance Elliott was born about 1839 and was the daughter of Charles Pennington Elliott and his wife, Rebecca Haltom. 

NameMiss Tempy Elliott
GenderFemale
Residence DateAbt 1859
Residence PlaceStanly
Marriage Date9 Dec 1859
ParentsCharles Eiliott
SpouseJames Clayton

Miss Tempie Elliott had actually married on December 9th of 1859 to James Clayton, in Stanly County, as reported in a newspaper called, The Spirit of the Age, January 5, 1859 edition, page 3. The marriage was no more by the summer of  1860 when Mr. McCorkle came around and enumerated Tempy by her maiden name back in her parents home. In fact, Temperance Elliott never went by another name in future records, except Elliott.


NameTempe Elliotte
Age21
Birth Yearabt 1839
GenderFemale
RaceWhite
Home in 1860Stanly, North Carolina
Post OfficeAlbemarle
Dwelling Number1158
Family Number1174
Cannot Read, WriteY
Inferred FatherCharles Elliotte
Inferred MotherBecky Elliotte
Household members
NameAge
Charles Elliotte52
Becky Elliotte52
Tempe Elliotte21
J M Elliotte
Margaret P Elliotte12
M J Elliotte9

Her temporary husband, James F. Clayton, was a Civil War soldier, and was killed at Frazier's Farm battle in Virginia on June 30, 1862. Above shows Tempie in the 1860 census, living with her parents as an Elliotte, not a Clayton. While mistakes were often made when family members or others of a different surname were living in a household, Tempie's husband was not living with her.

Temperance Elliott died in 1886 at the age of 47. She left a Will, naming her sisters, and some of the children of her siblings. Temperance Elliotte was buried a single woman in the Kirk and Clayton family cemetery near Badin.


Another Temperance in the age range was Temperance J. Colson. The daughter of Jacob Harris Colson and Zilphia Drake Threadgill, she was born in 1842 in  North Carolina. Every census she is in gives her birthplace as such, but in 1850, as a 7 year old, her family is found in Marshall County, Mississippi.

NameTemperance J Colson
GenderFemale
RaceWhite
Residence Age7
Birth Dateabt 1843
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Residence Date1850
Home in 1850Northern Division, Marshall, Mississippi, USA
Attended SchoolYes
Line Number8
Dwelling Number1127
Family Number1127
Inferred FatherJacob H Colson
Inferred MotherZelphy Colson
Household members
NameAge
Jacob H Colson30
Zelphy Colson27
Temperance J Colson7
Thomas K Colson5
Jonas J Colson4
William H Threadgill16

They have returned to North Carolina by 1858, however, as her father passed away in Stanly County, NC on July 19th of that year. His will was probated in Stanly County, while his body was laid to rest in the Colson Family cemetery in Anson County, where Jacob had grown up. He was only 38 years old.

NameTemperance Colson
Age in 187026
Birth Dateabt 1844
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Dwelling Number170
Home in 1870Center, Stanly, North Carolina
RaceWhite
GenderFemale
Post OfficeAlbemarle
OccupationAt Home
Household members
NameAge
Z D Colson41
Temperance Colson26
Jones J Colson28
Elmo Colson19
Carolina Colson17
Sarah Colson14
Charlotte Colson12

In 1870, Temperance is found living with her mother and most of her siblings in Center, the Norwood area. Charlotte, the youngest, was born the year her father died. I wonder what had happened to this young father?


Temperance would become a mother. In 1878, she had a daughter, Theadocia Dorian Colson by John Thompson. He was a  married farmer and neighbor of the Colsons. Temperance would raise her daughter at her mother's home and after Theadocia married, would follow her to Davidson County, where she passed away in 1913. Temperance Colson never married, or did she?


The last possibility for who Temperance might have been may be the most conspicuous, due to proximity and familial connections.

NameEli Russel
GenderMale
RaceWhite
Residence Age46
Birth Dateabt 1804
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Residence Date1850
Home in 1850Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
OccupationFarmer
IndustryAgriculture
Real Estate49
Line Number22
Dwelling Number936
Family Number941
Inferred SpouseElizabeth Russel
Household members
NameAge
Eli Russel46
Elizabeth Russel39
Alxe Russel24
Henry Russel21
Caroline Russel18
Isiah Russel15
Temply Russel13
Elizabeth Russel8
Gabriel Russel5
Catharine Russel3

Temperance Russell was the daughter of Eli Henry Russell and wife Elizabeth, making her my 3rd Great Grandaunt. Her brother, Henry, would marry Dowd Franklin Mauldin's sister, Eliza. Her mother, Elizabeth, is the selfsame Elizabeth at whose  estate auction Frank and his brother , Parham,. made purchases, notably, that side-saddle. Was D. F. a son-in-law? 

Temperance Russell is a cromulent candidate for the wife of D. F. Mauldin. The controverisal element of this theory is that Tempy doesn't appear with ther family inthe1860 census. Lack of a corporeal acknowledgement doesn't neccessarily betoken her death. Mary E. Mauldin, sister of Franklin Mauldin, doesn't appear inthe 1860 census,either.

Household members
NameAge
Thos Maulden50
Mary Maulden47
Mintie Maulden31
Mary Maulden21
Laura Maulden18
Nancy Maulden15
William Maulden13
Henry Maulden12
Lancy Maulden11
Thomas Maulden7
Mary Maulden41

But there she is in 1870, living with surviving brother Thomas. Missing a census didn't mean the individual was deceased. Census takers made mistakes; older children sometimes went to work for neighbors or others to earn their own money, or were out visiting, or even traveling miles away to pick up supplies or 'shopping'. 

Family trees have Temperance Russell dying young, but she may not have died single.  Eli Russell died in 1854. His probate papers only mention his widow, both as "Betsy" and as "Elizabeth". No other heirs are mentioned. He did not leave a will. 

As previously mentioned, Elizabeth Russell's estate was probated in 1861. It's one of the documents of the existence of Dowd Franklin Mauldin, with the several mentions of purchases made by both him and his brother, Parham. Among the buyers were her sons, Alexander and Gabriel Russell, and her daughters, Mary and Martha.




There are even several mentions of John Thompson, who was discussed in an earlier paragraph. There are no mentions of Henry Russell, who was most definitely living at the time, or her older two daughters, Tempie and Caroline. Oddly, several people have noted in Caroline's profile, that she married an "unknown Mauldin". Could that Mauldin be determined, or did they have her confused with Temperance?



There is one more thing.  In the 'Mauldin Book', "Ye Mauldins", by Ervin Mauldin, mention is made of a possible child of Franklin and Temperance.  Quote, "Franklin and Tempy were married in 1861 in Stanly County. Franklin died that same year. I believe he had ason - William L. Mauldin b. 1862 -but I can not prove this -all evidence indicate William to be the son of Franklin, I cannot tie him in to any other family. "

Included was the following family listing:

(8) William L. Mauldin b. May 1862  m. Suffronia A. _________ b. May 1864.

       (9) Swiler E. Mauldin B. May 1891

       (9) Henry C. Mauldin b.Oct. 1894

-no further record - disappeared from the country.





Seeing the obvious transcription errors in the name of the 9-year-old child, I believe I have discovered where Cousin Ervin, who was limited to word of mouth, family bibles and dusty courthouse record books, for the most part, in his late 1900's research, found this individual Mauldin and his family. 


NameWilliam Manden
Age38
Birth Dateabt 1862
BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Home in 1900Center, Stanly, North Carolina
Sheet Number6
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation101
Family Number107
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Marital StatusMarried
Spouse's NameSusph??a A Manden
Marriage Year1884
Years Married16
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Can ReadY
Can WriteN
Can Speak EnglishY
NeighborsView others on page
Household members
NameAge
William Manden38
Susph??a A Manden35
Sniler E Manden9
Henry C Manden6

William Mauldin, 38 with a wife, S? A. Mauldin (incorrectly transcribed as 'Manden', with two children, 'Sniler' E., age 9 and Henry C., age 6.


This record, and this family, were already in my family tree, for two reasons. Not only were they Mauldins, but they were also members of my Solomon family, and my Murray family. William David Mauldin was born May 11, 1863, the year after his father, David Arnold Mauldin died. David Mauldin was one of the three Mauldins whose widows were mentioned in three paragraphs in a row in the August 1862 Court Minutes referenced earlier in this post. He was a first cousin of Franklin Mauldin. His mother was Mahala Elizabeth Whitaker Mauldin, a daughter of Nelson Samuel and Sophia Murray Whitaker. Sophia was a sister of my 3rd Great Grandmother, Priscilla Murray Aldridge. That puts him in the Murray Tree. He married Saphronia A. Solomon, daughter of Henry Clay Solomon and wife, Mary Elizabeth Russell, and yes, that also puts them in the Russell tree, as Mary Elizabeth was a daughter of the afore mentioned Eli Henry and wife Elizabeth. As Cousin Ervin was looking at a "Sniler", and not a "Milas", as the first child of William David and Saphronia was actually named, I can see where it gets a little confusing. 


NameW D Maulding
Age in 18709
Birth Dateabt 1861
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Dwelling Number12
Home in 1870Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Post OfficeSalisbury
OccupationAt Home
Inferred MotherElizabeth Maulding
Household members
NameAge
Elizabeth Maulding36
J F Maulding13
M E Maulding12
B R Maulding10
W D Maulding9

William shows up first in Salisbury, Rowan County, with his widowed mother, Elizabeth Mauldin and three older siblings, James Franklin, 13, Mary Elizabeth, 12, and Benjamin Rufus, 10.

Mahala Elizabeth Whitaker Mauldin may have moved to Salisbury when her husband, David Arnold Mauldin, was working at the Confederate Prison in Salisbury as a prison guard. 


NameDavid Mauldin
Age20
Birth DateAbt 1860
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Home in 1880Center, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Dwelling Number8
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Relation to Head of HouseSon
Marital StatusSingle
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Mother's NameElizabeth Mauldin
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
OccupationWorks on farm
NeighborsView others on page
Household members
NameAge
Elizabeth Mauldin45
Mary E. Mauldin21
David Mauldin20

She moved with her children back to Norwood in Stanly County by 1880. On April 18, 1884, they were said to be living in Montgomery County, when David, 22,  married 'Fronia' Solomon, 19.



Then we are back to the 1900 census, where William David Mauldin and family had returned to Stanly County, and were living in Norwood again.

They had three sons, Milas Eugene, Henry Clay and Arnold Dewey.

NameDavid Mauldin
Age in 191046
Birth Date1864
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Home in 1910Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Sheet Number19a
StreetWiscassett Hill
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Marital StatusMarried
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Native TongueEnglish
OccupationLaborer
IndustryFarm
Employer, Employee or OtherWage Earner
Home Owned or RentedRent
Farm or HouseHouse
Able to readY
Able to WriteY
Enumeration District Number0116
Years Married25
Out of WorkN
Number of Weeks Out of Work0
Enumerated Year1910
NeighborsView others on page
Household members
NameAge
David Mauldin46
Safhona Mauldin44
Eugene Mauldin19
Clay Mauldin16
Arnold Mauldin6

In 1910, the family of 5 has moved up to Albemarle and are living on  the 'Wisscassett Hill', which was one of the Textile Mill Villages that built Albemarle into a City after the turn of the century. David was farming, while his two older sons worked in the Mill. In those days, the children were often sent to work and brought their wages home to their parents, while the father usually worked too, but the mother stayed home and took care of the house and younger children. After child labor laws kicked, mothers started going to work and leaving the children home with either a Nanny, or older children taking care of the younger ones. Sometimes a grandmother or maiden aunt lived in to take care of the children, or the parents worked different shifts, passing like ships in the night. This prompted the shrinking of the American family, at least the ones who moved into towns or cities.


Saphronia Solomon Mauldin died in 1912, just before the popular use of death certificates in the state, at age 48. She was buried at Cedar Grove Church, near Norwood.

After Fronie's death, David married Martha A. Hinson, daughter of Jeremiah Hosea Hinson and Elizabeth Miley Harward. Martha was a Stanly County born and bred girl, who hadfirst married Charles Baxter Swicegood Sr. in Davie County.



NameDavid Mauldin
Age47
Birth Yearabt 1873
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Home in 1920Big Lick, Stanly, North Carolina
House NumberFarm
Residence Date1920
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Marital StatusMarried
Spouse's NameMartha Mauldin
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Able to Speak EnglishYes
OccupationFarmer
IndustryFarming
Employment FieldOwn Account
Home Owned or RentedRented
Attended SchoolNo
Able to readYes
Able to WriteYes
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Household members
NameAge
David Mauldin47
Martha Mauldin47
Arnold Mauldin16
Samuel Mauldin10
Charlie Mauldin7

In 1920, they have now relocated to the western end of Stanly County, where David is farming in Big Lick. Arnold was the only one of his children still at home. Samuel and Charlie, mistakenly shown as Mauldins in the census, were not Mauldins and were not David's sons. This was Samuel Hosea Swicegood, and Charles Baxter Swicegood, Jr., Martha's sons.

1930 found the couple living in the town of Norwood on Kendall Street, with David's oldest son, Milas Eugene and his family. Davied was now 69 years old . He passed away the next year, on April 3, 1931. He was 69 years, 10 months and 22 days old. His cause of death was pellagra ,due to 'cerebral softening,' a far too common ailment in those days, due more to bad nutrition. Parents names given were David Mauldin and Haley Aldridge. Mahala wasn't an Aldridge. Martha may have mixed her up with her Aunt Priscilla.

Martha buried him next to his first wife at Cedar Grove. She them moved to Iredell County, where she lived the last four years of her life living with her youngest son, Charlie Swicegood. She died on June 17, 1940, and was buried in Mocksville, Davie County.

I end this post with as many questions as I started with. Why did D. F. Mauldin die so young? Did it have anything to do with the Civil War or resistence to service in the Civil War? Who was Temperance? Where was she before the wedding and what became of her afterwards? Was there a child born of this brief union?

I end with no definite answers, but I leave you with possibilities and ideas.















Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Livor Mortis



Livor Mortis is the final stage of death. When our spirit exits our earthly ewer, gravity takes over and our blood is free to go hang out with its friends in whatever part of our body it wishes to pool. It's 5 o'clock in John Doe land, and everyone, and everything, is off work. Depending on what angle or position the carcass is in when life leaves it, the difference in lividity patterns can vary.

I descend from the one known child of James O. Mauldin and wife Mary A. Smith Mauldin, to have a large and multitudinous family, Thomas Alexander Mauldin. With the fate of one daughter unknown, and the other passing away as a youthful wife with two small children, and the other sons dying fairly young of various diseases, accidents or war, their children left behind small families, or none at all, with, of course, the one exception. 

Relying on the Mauldin family book, 'Ye Maudlins" by distant cousin, Ervin Mauldin, which I had gifted to my mother long ago, several of those descendants seem to have been like these last, gasping pools of blood, dispersing into opaqueness and sempiternal obscurity. 

One sibling of my Thomas Alexander Mauldin, whose little clutch fell into the previous elucidation, was Archibald Claiborne Mauldin, the oldest of his younger siblings. 



Like Tom, Archie was probably born in either Chatham or Montgomery County, North Carolina, on June 18, 1827, according to an old Family Bible.. James O. Mauldin had arrived in West Pee Dee, Montgomery County, NC by 1830, as he appears in the census then, his family growing like a crop of  opportunistic weeds.



NameJames Malden
Home in 1830 (City, County, State)West Side Pee Dee River, Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 51 Archibald Claiborn Mauldin
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 91 Thomas Alexander Mauldin
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 141 John Wesley Mauldin
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 391 James O. Mauldin
Free White Persons - Females - Under 51 Mary Ellen Mauldin
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 491 Mrs. Mauldin (Mary?) 
Free White Persons - Under 204
Free White Persons - 20 thru 492
Total Free White Persons6
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored)6


James received a grant on Jacobs Creek, a tributary to the Pee Dee River, in 1840.  The Mauldins were yeoman farmers, family and hired hands were their laborers. They did not and would not own slaves, or a great deal of land, either. They lived a godly life as humble subsistence farmers, as far as I can tell. 

The Mauldin's were said to be members of  Randles Church, and located south of Albemarle, the county seat of Stanly County. 





In August of 1847,  Archibald Mauldin received his own Grant. Found at the Stanly County Register of deeds in Book 2, Page 61 and also at NC Land Grants. For $5.00 for every 100 acres granted by the treasury, A. C. Mauldin was granted 45 acres on the Waters of Jacobs Creek adjoining James Mauldin, his father, and others. It was entered the 10th day of February 1846. Archibald would have been about 19. He may have gotten married about this time in his young life. 



A second deed involving Archibald Mauldin is an Indenture dated July 17, 1849, and found in Book 4, page 104 in the Stanly County Register of Deeds.  Thomas A. Mauldin sells to his brother, A. C. Mauldin, for $50.00 in hand, for a tract of land belonging to the estate of James Mauldin, their father, which was Thomas's ninth part share of the inheritance. 

The next deed involving Archibald will be when his widow, Mary, sells the land she inherited from Archibald's decease to J. R. Ivey, found in Book 4 Page 433, of the Stanly County Register of Deeds. 

Archibald had married Mary Allen, also seen as Polly, about 1846-1848. Polly was the daughter of Joseph Allen (1804-1877), son of George W. Allen and Jane Snuggs, and Oney Florence Shankle Allen, (1804-1840), daughter of the Rev. George Shankle, Sr. Polly Allen Mauldin was born on August 12, 1826. 


NameMary Mauldin
GenderFemale
RaceWhite
Residence Age23
Birth Dateabt 1827
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Residence Date1850
Home in 1850Freemans, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Line Number5
Dwelling Number124
Family Number125
Inferred SpouseArchibald Mauldin
Inferred ChildJoseph Mauldin
Household members
NameAge
Archibald Mauldin24
Mary Mauldin23
Joseph Mauldin0

By 1850, we see the image of a young family, Archibald, age 24 and Mary, 23, having given birth to their first child, Joseph. The date was August 1, 1850, and Joseph was one month old. A. C. and Mary were living amongst family. They resided in Freeman's District, in household 125. In Household 126, following them, was his mother, Mary, and his younger, unmarried siblings; James Jr. 19, Mary 21, Benjamin 17, Eliza 15, Parham 12, and Franklin 8. James O. Mauldin had left a young family. Below his mother was neighbor, Henry Shankle. In the household prior to his own, Number 124, was his oldest brother, John Mauldin, with his wife, Sarah and children; Mary E. 9, Martha 7, James H., 5, William P. 1 and Lucy Carter, Sarah's sister, was living with them.





In the Stanly County Court Minute Document in the February 1857 Session, we discover that A C Mauldin has passed away. There must have been a lingering death, an illness or injury,  that prompted the thirty year old man in the prime of his young life to write a Will. 

"The last will + testament of A. C. Mauldin was proven in open court and offered for probate and the execution thereof was duly proved on the paths of John R Ivey + Henry Shankle the subscribing witnesses thereto.....will an codicil thereto was admitted to probate whereupon Parham Mauldin the Executor therein named was duly sworn. "

These names will be seen again.


The Will of Archibald Claiborne Mauldin was dated January 16, 1857.

"I bequeath into my wife Mary and children all of my land except 20 acres joining old tract, I give to brother Parham Maulden to attend unto my business. The tract of land what Thomas Maulden now lives on when he pays my wife for said tract of land then Mary Maulden my wife is to make said T Maulden a right to said land. 

I bequeath unto Mary and children all of my stock hogs, cattle, horses, wagon, farming tools household kitchen furniture.

As long as my wife Mary Maulden holds my name she is to have control over all the said property, if she should marry the said property is to be equally divided between my three children. "
The Will was signed A.C. Maulden and witnessed by John R. Ivey and H. Shankle.
He then would add a codicil, a month later, dated February 3, 1857. He had included his youngest brother, Dowd Franklin Mauldin. 

"I bequeath to Franklin Mauldin thirteen 3/4 acres of land joining the part of land that falls to his share."
Again, Henry Shankle stood witness and AC Mauldin signed. Mary Mauldin would keep his name until the end of her life. She was widowed at age 31. Their three children were Joseph I Mauldin, born in 1850, Lucy Ellen, born in 1852, and James Archibald, born in 1856. Mary had been left with a 7 year old, a 5 year old, and an infant. 





NameMary Maulden
Age34
Birth Yearabt 1826
GenderFemale
RaceWhite
Home in 1860Stanly, North Carolina
Post OfficeAlbemarle
Dwelling Number228
Family Number228
Inferred ChildJoseph I Maulden; Ellen Maulden
Household members
NameAge
Mary Maulden34
Joseph I Maulden10
Ellen Maulden8
Archy Maulden3


1860

In  the 1860 census, taken June 13, by J. M. McCorkle, Mary is listed as a 34 year old widow, with no occupation and no value, in either real estate, or her personal estate. A.C.'s estate may still have been in limbo. Her most immediate neighbors were farmer John Carriker, a widower, with adult and teenaged children living with him, and a worker named Joseph Morton, and his wife. Below her was farmer and Methodist Minister, L. A. Whitlock. Also near was Baptist Minister, Rev. William Solomon, who had also lived near them in 1850, so they appear to have still been living upon the fields above Jacob's Creek.

On the 12th day of September, 1860, Mary sold to J. R. Ivey, for $1.00 in hand, all of her life estate, or interest in the estate of her deceased husband, A. C. Mauldin; 'lying on the waters of Jacobs Creek adjoinng the lands of James Maulden deceased, F. A. Laton and others, containing 200 acres more or less." She also named off her livestock, crops and various implements, then named the debts she owed, that she wished J.R. Ivey to pay off for her, in exchange for all she owed, including notes to neighbor, Henry Shankle, and her brother, Asbury Allen.

In his will and in the census, the name Mauldin was spelled Maulden, with an 'e'. Today, our branch of the family spell it with an "i".

1870

NameMary Maulden
Age in 187039
Birth Dateabt 1831
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Dwelling Number201
Home in 1870Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina
RaceWhite
GenderFemale
Post OfficeAlbemarle
OccupationAt Home
Inferred ChildrenJoseph Maulden; Ellen Maulden
Household members
NameAge
Henry Shankle59
Lena Shankle56
Calvin Shankle27
Jane Shankle24
Stanhope Shankle
Joseph Shankle22
Ettie Shankle12
Mary Maulden39
Joseph Maulden20
Ellen Maulden17

In the 1870 census, the first after that ungodly war, and its aftermath of poverty, and devastation, to the much of the region, and, including Stanly County, Mary Mauldin is found living with her former, kindly neighbor, Henry Shankle. With her are her two oldest children, Joseph I. Maulden, 20, and Lucy Ellen, 17. They were all probably aiding in running the Shankle farm. Prior to this, another estate file for Archibald Mauldin exists, with his administrator, and brother, Parham Mauldin, suing the children, while still just children, for their share of their father's estate, together and individually. He requested the money to pay off the debts that a young man starting out, like Archibald, had accumulated. Living near Mary was Sarah Mauldin, her sister-in-law, also a widow. This was Sarah Ross Mauldin, widow of James O. Mauldin Jr., and her four children.

There was one child missing, the youngest, Archibald II. 




NameArchd Maulden
Age in 187013
Birth Dateabt 1857
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Dwelling Number129
Home in 1870Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Post OfficeAlbemarle
OccupationAt Home
Cannot ReadYes
Cannot WriteYes
Household members
NameAge
E M Smith36
Mary Smith32
Julia Smith8
Daniel Smith6
Charles Smith4
David Smith2
Celina Smith8/12
Archd Maulden13


Archie, as he was called as a boy, was found in the household of E M. Smith, working as a farm hand. The young, but populous, family had small children, so help in the fields was needed, I'm sure. Mary seems to have survived with her family, and from the labor of her children. 

By  1880, Mary 'Polly' Ross Mauldin was within her middle years, which came considerably earlier in those days.






Mary and her two youger children were now boarding with the James C. Bunn family. Polly is 50, and her profession is keeping house. The age of her daughter, Ellen, is given as 25, though she was a few years older in truth. She was probably trying to appear younger. Girls did that in those days. Also boarding with them were two of Mary's unmarried sisters, Martha  Allen, 45, and Nancy Allen , age 40. Following their names is that of "Archy" Mauldin, whose age is given as 30, although he was younger than Ellen, and his occupation as "works on farm".


The missing child, now a grown man, was Joseph I Mauldin. I've told a bit of his story before. On January 24, 2014, a decade ago, I penned this post, "The Irrepressible Nealie Shepherd", about the life of the wife of Joseph I Mauldin. The post can be accessed here.




On November 19, 1887, Marion Hudson, of all people, applied for the marriage license of "40-year-old" Joseph I. Mauldin, who was actually 37 son of Archie and Mary Mauldin, and Lundy C. Shepherd, daughter of Edward and Francis Shepherd, aged 18, but actually 15. OH MARION! The wedding took place at 5 pm, "in the road between M(arion) Hudson and John Mills".  Witnesses were H. H. Russell, Joe Russell and Marion Hudson. 

I have also posted, more than once, concerning my "Uncle Marion". Once, I had put him under the heading of "Bad guys of Stanly County", or "Suday Blacksheep". Nancy Caroline Hudson was my Grandmother's Grandmother. Not my Grandmother who was born a Mauldin, but one of my other two Grandmothers. This was my non-biological Grandmother, and my Grandmother just as much. She told me the tales of her younger days. She had no other grandchild to tell them to. Marion Hudson was Caroline's only brother. The four children were orphaned young and bad things befell them. Marion actually fathered a child with his Aunt, named Polly. Given, Polly was his father's half-sister. They shared a father, but had different mothers, and Marion, her nephew, was older than she, but they still had a child together. Marion obviously had a close relationship with Joseph I Mauldin. He applied for the marriage license, and was a witness to the nupitals.

On June 10, 1891, Nealie would give birth to her only child, son Patterson. By 1900, she was widowed and living in Richmond County, where Marion Hudson was living with his wife and children. Nealie and Patterson were living there when her grandfather, Marcus Princeton Carter's will was probated in 1895. The date of death for Joseph I. Mauldin is unknown. Before the 1900 census, or that's what we've been led to believe and what was reported by his wife, Nealie. He may have gotten wanderlust and moved westward.

NameNealie Maulden
Age25
Birth DateJun 1874
BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Home in 1900Rockingham, Richmond, North Carolina
Sheet Number7
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation102
Family Number106
RaceWhite
GenderFemale
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Marital StatusWidowed
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Mother: number of living children1
Mother: How many children1
Can ReadY
Can WriteN
Can Speak EnglishY
House Owned or RentedRent
Farm or HouseH
NeighborsView others on page
Household Members
Household Members
NameAge
Nealie Maulden25
Patterson Maulden11


In the 1900 census, as well as the 1910, Lundy Cornelia Shepherd Mauldin and her son, Patterson, are living in the town of Rockingham, Richmond County. She becomes the housekeeper for a much older man named Lewis Dawkins and eventually married him. Nealie was a shrewd businessman and a survivor. With Dawkins money, she tapped into the 20th century trend of urbanisation and citification, and broke her husbands farm, situated near town and an industrial area, and sold small housing lots to mill workers and other folks switching from farm work to city living. Lundy went from being an orphan at 11, surviving on the streets and off the charity of neighbors, with her older brother, to becoming a developer, and creating housing developments.



Patterson Mauldin would remain Patterson Mauldin until 1910.

When he married his first wife, Ally Floyd, on January 18, 1911, he gave his name as Patterson Shepherd, his mother's maiden name, and gave his parents as Henry and Nealie Shepherd, Henry being a nonexistant person.

Patterson would prove, in the beginning, to be as fickle as his biological father. Allie was a Stanly County girl, daughter of Daniel Floyd and Nancy Wallace, her father from Rocky River Springs and he mother from Anson County. That marriage lasted a little over a year. These were the years when divorces began becoming more popular, and some folks ignored the legal process altogether. 

By the time Patterson married the second time, two years later on December 3, 1913, to Flossie Jane Richardson, he had proudly taken on the name of his biological father - Marion Morrison Hudson and became Marion Patterson Hudson.

 Flossie was the daughter of Edward Franklin Richardson and wife, Louella Mauldin Richardson. Louella, daughter of my ancestor Thomas Alexander Mauldin, was the first cousin of Joseph I Mauldin, Patterson's non-biological father and Nealie's first husband. 

This marriage was even shorter than the one to Allie Floyd. 

Patterson and Flossie had married on December 3. That same month and same year, Flossie would marry Walter Stancil Cole on December 22, 1913. In a matter of weeks, Flossie had had married Patterson, had the marriage anulled, and married Walter. Maybe she was the fickle one. Maybe she discovered that Patterson was actually 'illegitimate', born out of an act of adultry, which was a shameful thing in those days, to the child of such an act. Flossie would tire of Walter, as well, but they would have five children. She would marry a third time to Millard Philmore Hathcock about 1923, just after her fifth child, Ruby was born and over 30 years before Walter passed away. She and Millard would have 7 children together, one the year after Ruby was born. It was a close race. 

Patterson would also marry a third time, and this one would stick. 




A year after Flossie had their marriage anulled, Patterson married Lou Ellen , or Louella Harrington, on January 11, 1914. Lou Ellen was the daughter of  Tom and Minnie Harrington. She and Patterson would be married for life and he gave his parents names as Marion Hudson and Nealie Dawkins, his mothers married name. Patterson and Lou Ellen would have 6 children, all Hudsons, which was their proper biological bloodline:Lewis Thomas, Allen Patterson, John Calvin, Marion Morrison Hudson II, Mary Cornelia and William Augustus aka "Gus". 

As for Marion Morrison Hudson the first, he had been married to his wife, Margaret Rummage, the entire time. They had seven children. Three were born before Marion had James Franklin Hudson by his Aunt Polly in 1881. Three more were born between the birth of James Franklin and when he had Patterson by Nealie Shepherd Mauldin. The last child by his legal wife, Alfred,  came two years after  Patterson. 



Marion Patterson Mauldin Shepherd Hudson, the only son of Joseph I Mauldin, and listed as such in the Mauldin family book, was not a Mauldin at all. He passed away in 1966.



Mary Allen Mauldin died in 1898. The death date of her only daughter, Lucy Ellen is unknown, although some report it as 1909. I investigated that report, as she is also reported to have been buried at Randalls United Methodist Church, arguably one of the oldest congregations in the County, now known as Randalls By the River, after the recent UMC controversy and division. I believe they have mixed up Lucy Ellen Mauldin with Ellen Frances Mauldin who married William McKinley Honeycutt. She was born in 1856 and died in 1909. As neither Ellen nor Mary are to be found in the 1900 census, I believe they were both deceased by 1900. According to family members, Ellen, and possibly Mary, are both buried in Randalls ancient cemetery, but that the graves may have been unmarked. Mary's younger sisters, who were living with her in 1880, do have impressive surviving markers in the Randalls Cemetery, Martha having passed away on May 14, 1911, and Nancy on February 20, 1910.


But there is another possibility concerning Mary Allen Mauldin. 

So, Joseph I Mauldin's one child was not his biological child and passed the name 'Hudson' down to his descendants, not Mauldin. Lucy Ellen never married. So that left one child to carry on the name and as far as the Mauldin book was concerned, he moved away and his fate lost to eternity, or at least to the Stanly County Mauldin hive. But that turns out to be not entirely true. Thanks to DNA, Archie Mauldin is no longer lost. 


According to "Ye Mauldins", James Archibald Mauldin had married a woman named Catherine A. born in September of 1860, and had two children, William O. Mauldin born November 1881 and a daughter, Lilly, born in December of 1883. This information appears to have come from some census record, which I was unable to connect to him in anyway. The information may have came from the family of Ervin 'Sampy; Mauldin and Rose Ann Hill. They claimed he raised James Alexander Mauldin, who would move to Rowan County.

This was an entirely inaccurate observance. While he may have raised James Alexander, there was no Catherine and those were not his children. Perhaps the author had found an entirely different James A. Mauldin.

The last record of Archie Mauldin in Stanly County was in the 1880 census, where he was living with his mother, sister and matronly maiden aunts, and working on the Bunn family farm. Afterwards, in that great 20 year missing block of time, he disappears.




The key to unlocking the mystery of Archie Mauldin was a newspaper clipping. According to 'The Enterprise', a defunct Stanly County newspaper, in the July 1914, 1910 edition, Archie Maulden and daughter, "Miss Bessie", were in town visiting friends and family. Ostensibly, there would have only been cousins, yet possibly lots of old freinds and neighbors. Perhaps Archie had just wanted to show his daughter his old stomping grounds. Advantageously, the news blurb had left a solid clue to help uncover the path of Archie Mauldin. "Of Memphis, Tennessee", they had reported. Now we knew where Archie had relocated. 




So with those two clues in hand, Memphis, Tennessee and a daughter named 'Bessie', I trudged on in search of Archie. For awhile, he remained elusive. There was not the perfect shoe that fit flawlessly.

Time after time, I kept running into this one guy. In nearly every way, he was a compeer to Archie. He was the exact same age, born in North Carolina in the census records, had the last name of Mauldin, lived in Memphis, Tennessee and had an age appropriate daughter named "Bessie". The one thing that did not fit was his first name. He went by the initials "A. C.", not "J. A." and when the "A" was written out, it became "Arthur", not "Archie". So, I disregarded him. Then I discovered that his camouflage was imperfect. There were instances of 'Arthur' being referred to as 'Archie'. I took a more meticulous look at Arthur C. Mauldin and the shoe fit. He has descendants, and those descendants shaare DNA with me and my mega-Mauldin genetics. 

James Archibald Mauldin had reinvented himself as a furniture salesman named Arthur C. Mauldin. Having figured that out, I was able to track him, and his steps. Arthur C. Mauldin was from Stanly County, North Carolina, but who knows what stories he told and why he told them. 

Shortly after that 1880 census, Archie had grown tired of farm work and made his way to Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi. 










Marshall County had been a popular destination in prior decades for travelers and wanderers from the North Carolina piedmont, the biggerst surge being in the 1820's and 1830's. Perhaps he had made contact with relatives or friends from that place, who'd come home for a visit, and young Archie returned with them. 

In Missississippi, he met the Bloodworths. Elisha William Bloodworth was born in Wilson, Tennessee. He was a Wheelwright, and as a young man, relocated to Marshall County, Mississippi. On January 4, 1843, in Shelby County, Tennessee, Elisha Bloodworth had married none other than his cousin, Elizabeth Horne Bloodworth. 
Elisha was the son of William D. Bloodworth, Jr. and his wife, Francis Cole. Elizabeth was the daughter of Jesse Deloach Bloodworth and his wife, Narcissa Gibson. William D. Bloodworth, Jr. and Jesse Deloach Bloodworth were the sons of William D. Bloodworth, Sr. and wife, Millicient 'Millie' Deloach. 

In 1850 Elisha Bloodworth was a Wheelwright.
In 1860 Elisha Bloodworth was a Mechanic.
In 1870 Elisha Bloodworth was a Undertaker, and was still an Undertaker in 1880.

About 1880-1881 Archibald Mauldin had changed his name to Arthur C. Mauldin, who had not existed before this year. 

The Bloodworths had brought nine children into the world. 
1843 Narcissa Mary Caroline
1845 Jesse Deloach II
1847 Frances Elizabeth
1848 William Wilson
1851 Johnny Bird
1853 Elisha Benjamin
1854 Thomas Walton
1857 Sarah Jane Josephine
1859 Martha Homazell

On February 10, 1881, A. C. Mauldin married the Bloodworths youngest daughter, Martha Homazell.

NameMattie Bloodworth
SpouseA. C. Moulden
Marriage Date10 Feb 1881
CountyMarshall

With Martha Homazell, Archie aka Arthur, had 4, perhaps 5 children.

Earnestine Orleana Mauldin (1881 -1954) Married Marion Bemass Fonda.7 children.
Edgar Oliver Mauldin (1883-1953) Married Georgia Lee Biggert. No children
Mamie Olivette Etta Mauldin (1885-1974) Married Raleigh Thomas Moore, 2 daughters. Married John McCullough  Hooks. 1 stepson.

There may have been an infant who passed named Maurice.

Arthur Fisher Mauldin was born on September 9, 1887. 
Martha Homazell Bloodworth Mauldin died on September 27, 1887, just a few weeks after his birth.
The baby died on May 31, 1888. He was 8 months old.

NameA. C. Maulden
SpouseJosie Bloodworth
Marriage Date13 Oct 1888
CountyMarshall

On October 13, 1888, A. C. Mauldin married  Sarah Josephine Bloodworth, known as 'Josie', the next to the youngest Bloodworth sister, and Martha'a older sister.

A. C. and Josie would have one child together;

Elizabeth Lois Mauldin (1889 -1956) Known as Bessie, who would arrive in Norwood with her father in 1914, where everyone called him "Archie". Bessie would marry A. Quitman Quinn and have three children; Elizabeth North, Sarah Jane, and one son, whom she named Archibald Mauldin Quinn.


A. C. Mauldin had moved from Mississippi to Memphis, in Shelby County, Tennessee, before the birth of Bessie.


NameArthur Maulddin
Age44
Birth DateOct 1856
BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Home in 1900Memphis Ward 15, Shelby, Tennessee
Ward of City15th
StreetAntie Avenue
House Number1
Sheet Number6
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation110
Family Number131
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Marital StatusMarried
Spouse's NameSallie Maulddin
Marriage Year1888
Years Married12
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina, USA
OccupationShipping Clerk
Months Not Employed0
Can ReadY
Can WriteY
Can Speak EnglishN
House Owned or RentedOwn
Farm or HouseH
NeighborsView others on page
Household members
NameAge
Arthur Maulddin44
Sallie Maulddin42
Ernestine Maulddin17
Edgar O Maulddin16
Mamie O Maulddin15
Elizabeth Maulddin9



In 1900, the family is livng in the town of Memphis, amongst a bourgeois group of attorneys, merchants, and other professionals. Forty-four year old Arthur is a Shipping Clerk and all of the living children are still at home. They've been married 12 years and Sarah Josephine, seen as "Sallie" here, was the mother of 1 child with 1 living. All of the children were in school except 17 year old Earnestine.


NameArthur C Mauldon
Age in 191053
Birth Date1857
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Home in 1910Memphis Ward 15, Shelby, Tennessee, USA
Sheet Number2b
StreetRyle
House Number1261
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Marital StatusMarried
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Native TongueEnglish
OccupationSalesman
IndustryRetail Furniture
Employer, Employee or OtherWage Earner
Home Owned or RentedOwn
Home Free or MortgagedFree
Farm or HouseHouse
Able to readY
Able to WriteY
Enumeration District Number0210
Years Married21
Out of WorkN
Number of Weeks Out of Work0
Enumerated Year1910
NeighborsView others on page
Household members
NameAge
Arthur C Mauldon53
Sarah J Mauldon52
Elizabeth L Mauldon20



1910 finds Bessie as the only child still at home. A. C. is a Salesman for a Furniture Company, and they seem to have moved to a much more modest area of town. Their neighborhood is more blue-collar and craftsman oriented and a more diverse mix, with some from other states and others, immigrants, from other countries.






NameA C Mauldin
Age63
Birth Yearabt 1857
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Home in 1920Memphis Ward 31, Shelby, Tennessee
StreetNelson Ave
House Number1413
Residence Date1920
RaceWhite
GenderMale
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Marital StatusMarried
Spouse's NameJosephine Mauldin
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Able to Speak EnglishYes
OccupationSalesman
IndustryFurniture Retail
Employment FieldWage or Salary
Home Owned or RentedOwned
Home Free or MortgagedFree
Able to readYes
Able to WriteYes
NeighborsView others on page
Household members
NameAge
A C Mauldin63
Josephine Mauldin62






1920 finds the couple in their 60's and no other changes.


NameArthur C Maulden
Birth Yearabt 1857
GenderMale
RaceWhite
Age in 193073
BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Marital StatusMarried
Relation to Head of HouseHead
Home in 1930Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA
Map of HomeMemphis,Shelby,Tennessee
Street AddressNelson a,
Ward of City31
Block1575
House Number1613
Dwelling Number227
Family Number280
Home Owned or RentedOwned
Home Value7000
Radio SetNo
Lives on FarmNo
Age at First Marriage23
Attended SchoolNo
Able to Read and WriteYes
Father's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
Mother's BirthplaceNorth Carolina
OccupationSalesman
IndustryRetail Furniture
Class of WorkerWage or salary worker
EmploymentYes
NeighborsView others on page
Household members
NameAge
Arthur C Maulden73
Sarah J Maulden72

The same with 1930. The septigenerian couple are still living in the saem place and at 73, the hardy Arthur is still selling furniture.







James Archibald/ Arthur C. Mauldin, the only child of Archibald Clabourne Mauldin and Mary Allen Mauldin to leave descendants, passed away at age 76, still devotedly employed as a Furniture Salesman. The newspaper report had several things as incorrect, he was not born in Charleston, every census stated North Carolina,and Josephine was never a Nash.








He was buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis. His death certificate gave cause of death as heart failure. The informant on his death certificate was his wife, Josephine. His parents names were listeted as Arthur C Mauldin and Mary Allen, both of North Carolina. His physician had attened him for 30 years and he had been a Furniture salesman for the Armstornong Furniture Company for longer than that. A. C. was the last pooling collection of blood in Achibald Clabornes bloodline.

Josie would join him at Forest Hills in 1942. She spent her last years with their daughter, Bessie.






He must have really disliked the name Archibald.