Delos C MELLEN

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; ED 20, pg 14A
• Census: 1910, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA; ED 1319, pg 12B

Notes:

Another stone at the Dunlieth Plantation, died 8/20/1931?

If this birth year is correct, why isn't he on the 1860 census?

Census:
Ward 3, Precinct 3, Barrone Street
Delos C Mellen Boarder M 40 May 1860 Mississippi m. 12 yrs
Corinne Mellen Boarder F 38 Apr 1862 Louisiana 3/3 children
Grenville Mellen Boarder M 12 Aug 1888 Louisiana
Marion Mellen Boarder M 10 Mar 1890 Louisiana
Wlliam T Mellen Boarder M 8 Oct 1892 Louisiana
Delos is a lawyer and the family is boarding with Theodore Grimwald.

Census:
Ward 22, Central Park West
Delos C Mellen Head M 50 Mississippi
Joseph Casbelleanos B-in-l M 29 Louisiana
William F Mellen Son M 20 Louisiana
Marian Mellen Daughter F 18 Louisiana
Annie Arnold Servant F 43 Germany
Delos is a cotton broker and he is widowed. Joseph is a singer at the concert hall. The kids don't work or go to school.

Other Events:

• Census: 1860, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; pg 88, HH# 661
• Census: 1870, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; pg 202 (9B), fam #2458
• Census: 1880, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; ED 10, pg 55 (250C)

Notes:

Mellen, William F., Capt. Co. H, 25th La. Inf. En. _. Roll to June 30, 1862, Present or absent not stated. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Harrodsburg, Ky., _, 1862. Sent to Vicksburg. Miss., from Louisville, Ky., via Cairo, Ill., Dec. 5, 1862, for exchange. Exchanged near Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 22, 1862. Rolls from Dec., 1862, to June, 1863, Absent, wounded at Perryville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862, home in Natchez, Miss., on sick furlough. Roll July and Aug., 1863, Absent, on detached service at Monroe, La., Supernumerary Officer. Rolls from Sept., 1863, to April, 1864, Absent, detailed in Iron and Nitre Dept., Trans. Miss., S. O. No. 101, order Gen. Smith. Roll May 1 to Aug. 31, 1864, Absent, detailed in conscripting service by order Gen. Smith, July 1, 1864, unfit for field service. Roll Sept. 1, 1864. to Feb. 28, 1865, Absent, relieved from field by order of Lt. Gen. Smith, and on duty in Conscript Bureau, in Trans. Miss. Dept., have no copy of order. On Roster dated March -, 1865, Enlisted into Confed. service March 12, 1862. Elected Capt., March 17, 1862. Roll March and April, 1865, Absent, retired from field service.

There is a letter dated May 27, 1875, from Jefferson Davis in Memphis, Tennessee, to William F Mellen, in which Davis discourses over the topic of General Sherman's accusation that Davis was complicit in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Davis says that he was not involved and that Sherman obviously accused him because doing such a terrible thing would not have been out of the question for a man like Sherman.

(Research):[Could this be Grenville Jr.? Grenville Charles Mellen? Delos Charles Mellen?
Louisiana Births
Mellen Julia Charles Lizzie Schellang F W 02/19/1896 106 717]

Census:

N L Carpenter M 54 Vermont
Julia A Carpenter F 52 New York
Helen E Carpenter F 18 Mississippi
A D Carpenter M 18 Mississippi
J N Carpenter M 13 Mississippi
Francis Carpenter F 10 Mississippi
Wm F Mellen M 24 Mississippi
Helen Mellen F 21 Mississippi

Census:

Willliam F Mellen M 34 Mississippi
Helen E Mellen F 31 Mississippi
Delos C Mellen M 11 Mississippi
William is a lawyer, $13,000/$3,000

Census:
North Julia Street, fam# 25
MELLEN, W F boarder 44 Miss Ire Ire
Fanny wife/boarder 40 Miss Miss Miss
Charles boarder 21 Miss Miss Miss
William and Charles are attornies and the family is boarding with L V McFarlan. "Charles" is probably Delos. A neighbor works for the cotton market.

William married Helen Elizabeth CARPENTER on 16 Sep 1858 in , Adams, Mississippi, USA. Helen (daughter of Nathaniel Loomis CARPENTER and Julia A ???) was born on 16 Jul 1839; died on 18 Dec 1906; was buried on 19 Dec 1906 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Fanny Carpenter

Other Events:

• Occupation: , Adams, Mississippi, USA; county coroner
• Education: Abt 1826; Phillips Exeter Academy
• Occupation: 1837, , , Mississippi, USA; state legislator
• Census: 1841, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA
• Property: 10 Dec 1841
• Census: 1850, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; pg 14, 225/217
• Occupation: Between 1850 and 1860, , , Mississippi, USA; attorney
• Residence: Between 1860 and 1864, , , Texas, USA
• Census: 19 Jun 1860, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; family #104
• Occupation: Abt 1862, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; editor for the Natchez Courier
• Obituary: 7 Oct 1868, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; Natchez Courier

Notes:

Here's the only picture of your great grandfather that we've been able to locate.
I don't think he was a northern sympathizer in the least. As the editor of the
local newspaper, he was probably highly opinionated and supportive of the southern cause.
Your grandfather didn't flee to TX until Natchez was threatened by Northern troops. When
the city leaders decided to surrender the city, rather than face the destruction that so
many other southern cities experienced, your grandfather appears to have been one of the
opponents of that surrender. Our research indicates that he was captured (by Northern
troops) in Texas and died in a prisoner of war camp, located in Arkansas.
Hope this is helpful.
Jamey Boudreaux

Military:
Captain of Militia

Census:
1841 MELLEN WILLIAM P. Adams County MS No Township Listed State Census Index MS4258654

Property:

Patentee Land Office Doc. Date Base Line TWP Rng Sec Acres
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21307 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 15 159.8500
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21308 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 14 0.0000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21308 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 14 282.1800
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21309 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 17 320.0800
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21310 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 21 160.0000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21311 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 13 136.6000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21312 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 27 0.0000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21312 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 27 166.4400
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21313 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 28 319.0000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21314 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 20 80.0000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21315 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 7 317.6400
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21316 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 18 0.0000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21316 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 18 158.7500
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21318 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 33 0.0000 Assignee of Nicholas Gray
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21318 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 33 0.0000
William P Mellen Mt Salus 21318 1840/12/10 Choctaw 18N 5W 33 306.3600

Census:

MELLEN, William P. head 44 NH lawyer $40,000
Sarah C. wife 37
Martha E. dau 17
Wm. F. son 14
Sarah L. dau 12
Albert son 10
Grenville son 7
Mary P. dau 4
Thos. L. son 1

Census:

MELLEN, Wm. P. head 53 NH lawyer $10,000/40,000
Sarah C. wife 47 MS
Sarah L. dau 22 MS
Grenville son 17 MS student of medicine
Victoria dau 18 LA
Mary P. dau 14 MS
Thomas L. son 11 MS
John P. son 7 MS
Fred K. son 5 MS
Wm H. son 10/12 MS

Obituary:
A Eulogy on William Pepperrell Mellen
"William Pepperrell Mellen - Past Grand Master Mason of the state of Mississippi, born at Dover, New Hampshire July 18th, 1806. Delivered before a lodge of sorrow held by the Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, at St Louis, Missouri September 18th, 1868. By Giles M Hillyez, 33rd. Grand Minister of the State.
"His ancestors were English, reaching by his mother's side to the earliest settlers of New England. He settled in 1825 at Natchez and engaged at once in mercantile pursuits, but abandoned them in 1932 for a literary and professional career. In 1833 he began the publication of the Natchez Courier, a paper still in existence. He represented the City of Natchez in the state legislature up to 1838.
"He married a Southern woman and a family of nine children surrounded them.
"In July of 1863 our illustrious brother left Natchez, anticipating its occupancy by Northern Troops. Returning from Texas in 1864, when on the Bayou Macon in Chicou County, Arkansas, he was stricken and died November 7th, 1864. In 1866 his remains were taken to Natchez where he lies at rest in the cemetery on the very brow of the grand Mississippi River."

William married Sarah Carpenter LEWIS on 16 Jun 1831 in Washington, Adams, Mississippi, USA. Sarah (daughter of Archibald LEWIS and Eleanor Thornton SAPPINGTON) was born on 26 Nov 1812 in *Sleepy Hollow, Adams, Mississippi, USA; died on 22 Feb 1870 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; was buried on 23 Feb 1870 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Julia A ???. Julia was born in 1808 in , , New York, USA; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: 1784
• Occupation: 1785

Notes:

Education:
Harvard University, B. A.

Occupation:
Lawyer

Henry married Martha Wentworth FROST on 18 Dec 1791. Martha (daughter of George FROST and Margaret WEEKES) was born on 8 Nov 1769 in New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 11 Jan 1835 in Saco, York, Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Copy of a letter written by Martha W. Frost Mellen to her son, William P. Mellen of Natchez, Mississippi. Exact Spelling. This and other letters are in the possession of Frederic D. Mellen of Murray, Kentucky. (1934):
My dear Son,
It has pleased God to suffer our enemies once more to brake us up as a family, but I trust in the goodness and mercy of God that it will be for the benefit and happiness of your excellent Brother to draw his attachment from an undeserving object-which was the only thing that could reconcile me for his leaving Dover. Our breaking up house keeping. I fondly hoped to have seen all my dear children in their native place. I am sorry you did not all come last summer how glad I should have been to have seen your wife and little cherub & my dear daughter Ann and her dear children to all of whom I ... "

Archibald married Eleanor Thornton SAPPINGTON on 18 Dec 1800 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. Eleanor (daughter of Dr Mark Brown SAPPINGTON and Rebecca BOYCE) was born in 1782 in Havre de Grace, Harford, Maryland, USA; died on 6 Oct 1863 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]