WINN CEMETERY
LEON COUNTY, TEXAS
Directions: From Marquez, south on Hwy 79 about 3 miles to left (east) on FM 3,
then about 0.6 mile to cemetery on left (north), just past the railroad track.
| Linda Jonas Mullen provided the following pictures and news articles. Her father-in-law, Perry
Clois Mullen (shown below) is a third-generation descendant of William Peterson Mullen (Clois' great grandfather).
Included are pictures and news articles regarding a memorial ceremony conducted June 6, 2009 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, honoring the memory of William Peterson Mullen and other Confederate veterans buried in Winn Cemetery. |
LJM001 - Rev. W. P. Mullen - Born Jan. 13, 1838 - Died Nov. 23, 1908
"Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord"
(William Preston Mullen, son of Samuel Becton Mullen and Mary Elizabeth Smith
& husband of Sarah C. "Sally" Guynes)
LJM002 - Military marker placed as a footstone
FAG001 - S C Wife of W P Mullen, Born Sept 20, 1845, Died Dec 18, 1900
(Sarah C. "Sally" Guynes, wife of William Peterson Mullen)
(Source: Find A Grave. Larry Morgan, contributor)
LJM003 - Perry Clois Mullen reading a biography of William Peterson
Mullen during the memorial ceremony - June 6, 2009. Also shown is Marc Robinson,
Commander of Reagan Camp 2156 who conducted the ceremony.
LJM004 - Caraline Robinson (holding rose) and Cindy Bobbitt place a rose
on the grave in a Black Rose Ceremony by Ladies from Invincible Rose
Chapter 37, Order of the Confederate Rose of New Salem.
Dan Dyer is posted on the field of honor.
LJM005 - Freestone County Times, Fairfield, Texas, June 16, 2009
LJM006 - The Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield, Texas, June 18, 2009
| Family Groups: | Samuel Becton Mullen |
William Peterson Mullen |
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