Thomas Lewis MELLEN

Other Events:

• Census: 1880, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; ED 49, pg 34C
• Occupation: 1882, Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA; Methodist preacher

Notes:

Census:
1880 Natchez, Adams, Mississippi
ED 49, pg 34C East Commerce Street
Thomas Mellon Self M 31 Mississippi
Elanora Mellon Wife F 31 Kentucky
Carroll Mellon Dau F 7 Mississippi
Elanora Mellon Dau F 5 Mississippi
Anna Mellon Dau F 2 Mississippi
William A Perry F-in-l M 65 Kentucky
Caroline Perry M-in-l F 63 Ohio
Nancy Bird Servant F 70 Virginia
Thomas is a lawyer and William is a dentist.

Thomas married Mary Eleanor PERRY on 16 Jul 1872. Mary (daughter of William Alexander PERRY and Caroline Brown LEE) was born on 14 Nov 1849 in , Henry, Kentucky, USA; died in 1931; was buried in 1931 in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Carol Frances MELLEN was born on 27 Apr 1873 in , Adams, Mississippi, USA; died on 13 Jun 1934 in Donora, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried on 14 Jun 1934 in Starkville, Oktibbeha, Mississippi, USA.
2. Eleanor Perry MELLEN was born on 19 Jun 1875 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; died in Deceased.
3. Anna A MELLEN was born in Feb 1878 in , Adams, Mississippi, USA; died in 1968; was buried in 1968 in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, USA.
4. Frederic Davis MELLEN was born on 8 Dec 1882 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; died on 29 Aug 1957 in Oktoc, Oktibbeha, Mississippi, USA; was buried on 30 Aug 1957 in Starkville, Oktibbeha, Mississippi, USA.
5. Perry Pepperell MELLEN was born on 6 Nov 1881 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; died on 8 Nov 1881 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA; was buried on 9 Nov 1881 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, USA.
6. Leonora Lewis MELLEN was born in Jan 1886 in , Adams, Mississippi, USA; died in 1971; was buried in 1971 in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, USA.

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]

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]

Other Events:

• Education: 1741
• Occupation: Aft 1741
• Occupation: Between 19 Dec 1744 and 14 Dec 1778
• Occupation: 11 Feb 1784

Notes:

a descendant of Richard Mellon (d. 1694) nine children 1750-1766

Education:
Harvard College

Occupation:
Pastor, Second Precinct Church

Occupation:
Lancaster, Massachusetts

Occupation:
Hanover, Massachusetts

John married Rebecca PRENTISS on 30 Nov 1749 in , , Massachusetts, USA. Rebecca (daughter of Rev John PRENTISS) was born about 1728; died in Deceased in , , Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Fact:
Continental Congress member

George married Margaret WEEKES in 1774. Margaret (daughter of Capt Joshua WEEKES and Comfort HUBBARD) was born in Apr 1728 in Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Mary FAIRCHILD on 26 Aug 1772 in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of Moses FAIRCHILD and Susannah BOSWORTH) was born on 1 Apr 1751 in , , Connecticut, USA; died in 1803 in , Washington, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriages:
Spouse: Daniel Lewis Marriage: 26 Aug 1772 Place: MA
Spouse: Richard Carpenter Marriage: 1779 Place: LA
Spouse: George Matthews Marriage: aft 1780 Governor of GA 1793-1796
Spouse: John B Peyton Marriage: aft 1782

Other Events:

• Residence: Abt 1780, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA

Mark married Rebecca BOYCE. Rebecca was born about 1753 in , Baltimore, Maryland, USA; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]