History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 487.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

B. F. PULLEN, court officer; P. O. Paris.  Among the old and highly
respected residents of this city, who have served as sheriff and mayor
several terms, is the above mention gentleman, who was born in this
precinct, May 22, 1825; his parents were James and Agnes (McClanahan)
Pullen, both of whom were natives of Culpeper County, Va.; James was a
son of Zedekiah Pullen, a Virginian by birth, but of Scotch ancestry;
Agnes, the mother of our subject, was a daughter of William McClanahan;
James Pullen emigrated to this State from the Old Dominion a short time
prior to the war of 1812, in which he was a participant; in 1837, he
located in Boone County, remaining there until his death, which occurred
about the year 1864; eleven children were born to James Pullen; among whom
were: William, Elizabeth (who became the wife of Edward Prentice), James,
died in New Orleans of yellow fever; Agnes, married James Norman.  The
subject of these lines during his early manhood, learned the trade of
plasterer, which vocation he followed for several years.  He has served the
county as deputy sheriff several terms, and was twice elected sheriff; in
1864, he was elected mayor of the city, and served twelve consecutive
terms; he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; in 1877-78,
he was Grand Master of the State of Kentucky; as a Free Mason, he has
passed through the various degrees pertaining to the Blue Lodge, the
Chapter, and taken the orders of Knighthood, being a member of Webb
Commandery, at Lexington, in religious matters, Mr. Pullen has always
official member of the Christian Church of his place; in temporal matters
he has been successful, and at one time possessed considerable property;
but through his unbounded liberality and his kindness to his friends,
and his inability to say no, he has been deprived of the larger portion
of his acquired property; yet his honor and integrity as a business man
and christian gentleman have never been questioned; in 1846, he formed
a matrimonial alliance with Elizabeth, daughter of French Abbott and
Elizabeth Prichard, both of representative families in this county;
Mrs. Pullen died in 1874, having borne him eleven children, in 1876, Mr.
Pullen married Mrs. Sarah (Hibbler) Abbott, daughter of Styrus Hibbler;
no children by last marriage.

Pullen McClanahan Prentice Norman Prichard Hibbler Abbott
=
Boone-KY Culpeper-VA LA

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/pullen.bf.txt