This page contains family memorabilia and documentation ranging from the Tidewaters of Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s to California and other parts of the world up to the present 21st century. Your genealogist/web author (Ann Garner - me) will be adding documents from the two trunks full of family papers that she has collected.
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Annie Dougherty Welch at her 100th birthday party in December, 1985. The party was held at the Senior Citizens Hall in Elk Grove, California. At this time Annie was living with her daughter, Edna Ethel Welch Mullins, in Wilton, California. Unfortunately, Annie passed away soon after that, at the home of her son in Bakersfield.
Annie Dougherty Welch at age 19 in Arkansas at about the time of her marriage to George Washington Welch in 1904.
Aunt Minnie Atchley in Arkansas? The daughter of Rachel Elizabeth Lewis Atchley (2.Estep, 3.Smith) in the early 1900s with some of her needlecraftg a fancy tailor-made hat, holding another hand-sewn accessory, and a basket of yarn, while a fine shawl is draped over some of her needlecraft equipment there beside her.
Benjamin Oliver Lewis in Arkansas shown with his wife, Mary Diddmy Robeson Lewis, and his daughter, Rachel Elizabeth and another daughter.
China Hall, the dwelling built in the 1700s by descendants of Vincent Garner. The house sits in a small Virginia town, Lewisetta. In the 1650s, when John Garner first settled in this area of the Northern Neck, the place was called Cherry Point.
Thomas Watson Garner and Beulah Pinkston Garner visit China Hall in 1978. The resident family was away, but the caretaker allowed us to take photos when we explained who we were.
Beulah Pinkston Garner and Thomas Watson Garner celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in 1969 in Brentwood, California, just one month after Rolland, Bradley, Erin and Anna Garner departed on their Foreign Service posting to Ankara, Turkey.
Beulah Pinkston Garner and her sons, Rolland and Barkley Garner in Brentwood, California on the occasion of Thomas Watson Garner's funeral in 1981. Rolland had flown home from his post in Yaounde, Cameroon in West Africa.
Beulah and Watson Garner visited Washington, D. C. in 1978, while Rolland and Anna lived in Arlington, Virginia, shortly before their departure for their post in Amman, Jordan.
Beulah Pinkston Garner visited all the major American government monuments while in Washington. Here she stands on the steps of the Capitol Building.
Bradley Charles Garner at 8 years of age stops on his way down the driveway from the school bus stop to greet his dog, Sparky. He lived with his parents, his dog, and his brother, Erin Douglas Garner, age 4 on Eden Plains Road in Brentwood, California. The year is 1962; he attended Knightsen Elementary School.
Erin Douglas Garner, at about 1 week old, sits on his brother Bradley's lap -- December, 1958. We are all still at Nana and Papa's house in Brentwood, California.
Bradley Charles Garner poses in front of the silk rug which hung in his bedroom in Ankara, Turkey in 1973. Brad is 18 years old and has finished one semester at the University of Maryland in Munich, Germany. The carpet is from Kayseri, Turkey in the ancient Christian Diocese of Cappadocia.
Erin Douglas Garner at bat for the American International School of Kabul baseball team. The baseball field was on the grounds of the U. S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The year is 1975. Erin played on all three Varsity teams: Flag Football -- there were no uniforms for tackle football -- basketball and baseball.
Erin runs the bases after a successful hit. Erin played third base and passed his "throwing arm" on to his son, Lucas Azariah Garner, who wows the play-school group at age 2 with his ability to throw far and accurately.
Anna Luesa Mullins Garner with her second son, Erin Douglas Garner, in their home in Arlington, Virginia in 1978. Rolland, Anna, Bradley and Erin lived there for only one year between Rolland's posting to Karachi, Pakistan1975-77 and Amman, Jordan 1978-80 for the Foreign Aid program of the U. S. State Department .
Martha Goff Garner, the wife of James Azariah Garner in Pacific Grove, California in 1937.
Thomas Watson Garner, the son of Martha Goff Garner, and his wife, Beulah Dean Pinkston, at their 50th wedding anniversary in Brentwood, California in 1979.
Thomas Watson Garner's garage in flames ca. 1948. Much more of the Garner family's memorabilia would be available to us today if it had not been for this fire. The garage burned to the ground; the car burned up and the house was barely saved.
Garage fire, another photo.
George Washington Welch, Annie Dougherty Welch and their daughter, Edna Ethel Welch, Marble City, Oklahoma, 1932.
Chester Benjamin Mullins and Edna Welch Mullins with their first child, Anna Luesa Mullins, in 1936, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
Mitchell Mullins' family lived and farmed this rented property from the early 1940s till his son Eugene's death ca. 1987. The "home place" looked like this in 1979. It is two miles west of Vian, Oklahoma.
Robert Pinkston, the father of Beulah Garner, in California in the 1940s.
Pinkston Family Reunion in Henryetta, Oklahoma in 1985.
Thomas Watson Garner in the Armona Bar in 1945. This photo shows Watson as the bartender with a regular customer whose name is lost to history.
Thomas Watson Garner, his wife Beulah and their second son, Rolland in 1942, California.
Poffenbarger Farm in Antietam. A part of the Civil War battle of Antietam was fought on this farm. Read the more complete story on the Poffenbarger family history page.
John Welsh I provided part of the land for this church (St. Anne's in Queen Anne Parish) in Annapolis in the late 1600s.
Zachariah Mullins was married in 1684 to Mary Mabraine in Old Christ Church in Middlesex County, Virginia (now a historical landmark in Lancaster County, Virginia). Links to photos:
Christ Church, Middlesex County
Christ Church Interior
Christ Church Pulpit
Christ Church Communion Service
Certificates
Isaac Chauncey Garner's marriage certificate in Lawrence County, Arkansas, 1837.
James Garner's marriage certificate in Lawrence County, Arkansas, 1851.
Milton Garner's marriage certificate in Lawrence County, Arkansas, 1850.
Rolland Garner's first Christmas as described by Beulah, his mother in his Baby Book, 1933.
Chester Mullins' birthday card from his Sunday School teacher in 1910.
Chester Mullins' Sunday School Cradle Roll enrollment card in 1910.
Chester Mullins' diploma issued in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 1929.
Martha Goff Garner's death certificate, Pacific Grove, California.
Rachel Elizabeth Lewis Atchley marriage to William Estep February 14, 1881, shortly after James Atchley's death.
Notes made by Helen Mullins Walker on the marriages and descendants of Rachel Elizabeth Lewis Atchley Estep Smith.
Mitchell Mullins marriage to Parkey Louise Estep (adopted name: Smith) license issued on August 17, 1905
Marriage certificate of Parkey Louise Estep (adopted name: Smith) and Mitchell Mullins
Wills
Will of Major John Welsh, our immigrant ancestor, 1683, Maryland.
Deeds and Other Land Records
Map of Madison/RockCastle Counties in Kentucky where the Mullins family settled ca. 1801.
Land records are often written on large journal-sized sheets in the old court houses. Sometimes I have found transcriptions of these in other sources (listed in Sources) and I have used those because the scanning of a book is more efficient than the scanning of oversized pages.
