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The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

December 7, 2011 in History

Jeremy (kneeling), Cody and Dylan Mullis pose with father Jeffery’s apple cider press.

The Stanly News and Press (Albemarle, NC)
December 7, 2011
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

By Marina Richardson, Staff Writer
CNHI News Service

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 — A homemade cider press has become part of a tradition for a Richfield family.

Jeffrey Mullis, 48, of Richfield, helped make apple cider with his grandparents when he was 12 years old.

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Truelight Church

August 14, 2011 in History

Structure of the Truelight Church

The Truelight Church was a loose knit congregation of 6 churches that all followed the religious doctrines laid out by Cunningham Boyle who established the separatist sect.. Each church loosely elected an Elder. Each elder from each church would meet and Elect a Head Elder to oversee the 6 churches. This process was never formalized and individual church elders were traditionally chosen by their predecessors.

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A piece of rural heritage in an urban setting: 1800s fruit trees expected to flourish on town lot

August 1, 2009 in History

By RICHARD WALKER
Journal of the San Juans Editor

Jun 02 2009





6498sanjuan0602orchardimg_3163Where there once was an orchard, fruit trees will flourish again.



A sliver of land on Market Street between the Technology Center and the Food Bank is being planted as a heritage orchard — “heritage” because the trees were grown from grafts taken from trees believed planted in the 1860s near English Camp.




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First lady of Greencastle Post Office retires

August 1, 2009 in History

Friday, June 5, 2009



1237309-hMullis retired last Friday after 30 years of working in Greencastle’s facility. While there have been a number of women come and go over the years, Mullis has the distinction of breaking the gender barrier at the Greencastle Post Office.


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Pete Kendall: New Hope Baptist Church was the last hope for many

August 1, 2009 in History

Published: June 08, 2009 12:49 pm

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Longtime downtown Macon business Saf-T-Oil closes

July 20, 2009 in History


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250-0719saftoil.standalone.prod_affiliate.71After 74 years, the Public Saf-T-Oil gas station at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Walnut Street closed Friday.


Lee Hencely pumped the last tank of gas after working at the station for more than 30 years, Barbara Bryant said.


Now her family is selling the business to John Dong, who leases the Marathon gas station across the street, she said.

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Pete Kendall: Names play an integral part in the local lore of Johnson County

June 19, 2009 in History

Published: June 01, 2009 02:48 pm

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Mullis Howard House Demolition

August 12, 2008 in History

March 14, 2008 was a sad day in Cochran. The Mullis Howard house was demolished.

It was built in 1911-1912, and my parents & I actually rented it for a year (89-90) when we were building their current house.  It was sad to see it go, and unreal at the same time. I stripped all of the doors, stairs, banisters, and everything else I could get that morning to hopefully use as props one day.  I even got the barn door, that I just have to hang outside for a backdrop.  I was there most of the day watching it come down.

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A salute for the journey

February 19, 2008 in History

Anna Giles, 99, handed Boston Post Cane

By SHIRA SCHOENBERG

Monitor staff

February 16. 2008 12:51AM

Anna Giles is a country girl. Growing up on a Georgia farm in
the early 1900s, her family grew tobacco, cotton and pecans. When
Giles moved to Boscawen 70 years later, she covered her property
with gardens.

“Neighbors would say, why are you growing so much?” Giles
recalled. “I said, I can them for winter. I don’t run to the store
every time I want a can of beans. I got them.”

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Dodge County GaArchives Biographies…..Mullis, C. N.

November 4, 2007 in History

Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Mullis, C. N.
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Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
The Mullis Family.
Three Mullis brothers and two first cousins came from North Carolina and
settled in this county. The three brothers were C. N. Mullis, Joel Mullis and
Cornelius Mullis. The cousins were Alfred and old man Charlie.
C. N. Mullis was the father of: Frank; Joe; Joel, Jr.; Sam; C. N., Jr.;
Missouri; Henrietta; Eliza; and Willie.
Joel Mullis was the father of: Mattie Lou; Joe Frank; Johnny; Betsy; Laura
Lee; Annie Eliza; Beedie; Willie; Jerry; Newt; and a daughter who married Emmett
Armstrong.
Cornelius was the father of: Joel; Frank; Jim; Nancy; Elizabeth; Sarah; and
Alice.
C. N. Mullis, Jr., son of C. N., the pioneer, married Marietta Tripp, and they
were the parents of: Byrdie, who married Richard Giddens; Pearl, who married,
first, L. D. Montford, and second, J. C. Landers; George Dewey, who married
Blanche Bennett; Lewis; Newt; Mary Lizzie, who married ______; Ethel, who
married Sylvester Stuckey; Hazel, who married J. H. Benton; Orine; Ruth; Sarah.
Alfred Mullis, a cousin of the above named Mullis brothers, married a
Farrabee, Cumin Lee, and they were the parents of: Mary, who married D. C.
Livingston; Emily, who married J. T. Sanford; Nancy, who married Robert May;
Margaret, who married Sam Peacock; Carrie, who married Levi Harrell; Ross, who
married Cynthia Graham.
Charlie, brother to Alfred, settled near Dexter, and his family reside mostly
in Bleckley and Laurens Counties.
Jessie Mullis, son of Noah Mullis, came from North Carolina to this county
over fifty years ago. He married Zadie Arnold, and their children were: Charlie,
who married Mollie Miller; Jim, who married Jane Parkerson; his second wife was
Tildy Boutwell. A son, Frank, married Lizzie Brady first, second, Bessie Evans,
and third, Minnie Lee Miller. Anna married Luther Miller, and Mattie married Gus
Morn.
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DODGE COUNTY
COPYRIGHT    1932
By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
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FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA.