William Green Mulkey

William Green Mulkey was born in Georgia in 1845, the son of Felix Green Mulkey and Hettie Millen. In November of 1861, at the age of 16, he ran away to enlist as a private in Company H, 7th Georgia Regiment in the Civil War. Ultimately, He was taken prisoner and held at Camp Mortor, Indiana before parole. Also serving in that unit was his older brother John Jefferson “Sim” Mulkey, who had also been captured near Murfreesboro, Tennessee and then released at Camp Chase, Ohio. Both men ended up moving to Pike county, Alabama after the war, where their parents had recently moved. There they encountered the family of Rev William T. Shanks. W.G. married Elvira Tisdah Shanks on December 4, 1866. She was the oldest daughter by W.T.’s first wife and twelve years his senior. Brother Sim married seventeen-year-old Missouri Sarah Shanks on March 20, 1867. Missouri was the oldest daughter of W.T.’s second wife, Anne Beasley, who was the daughter of local pioneers.

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