Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 693-695 [Fulton] EDWARD IRVIN BULLOCK, deceased, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia. At the age of nineteen years he left his native state and came to Kentucky, locating in Cumberland county, where he married Maria Emmerson, a native of Cumberland county, born near the town of Berksville. Her parents were John M. and Sallie Emmerson, natives of Kentucky. Edward I. Bullock received his education in William and Mary College, of Virginia, in which he graduated, and after his marriage he located at Berksville, Kentucky. Being a civil engineer, he was elected surveyor of his county, and later was admitted to the bar and began practice. He was later made state's attorney, being appointed by Governor Clark, and was serving in that office at the time of the celebrated murder case of the State vs. Judge Wilkerson, Mrs. Wilkerson and Murdough for the murder of John Rothwell and Alexander H. Meeks, in March, 1839, one of the most celebrated cases in Kentucky jurisprudence, and the full history of which may be found in "Carlton on Homicide." Subsequently Mr. Bullock removed to what is now Hickman, Kentucky, and was the first county attorney of Fulton county, also representing that county in the legislature. His next location was at Clinton, to which place he removed in 1854, and from there removed in 1857 to his country home two and a half miles east of Columbus, where he remained until his death, February 13, 1883. He continued in the practice of law until his death, served as circuit judge by appointment and was one of the codifiers of the general statute of Kentucky in the year 1873, which was adopted by the general assembly. In his political affiliations he was first a Whig and alter a Democrat, in his fraternal relations was a Master Mason and was a member of the Episcopal church. He was an able attorney, advocate and jurist and was a splendid trial lawyer. Five of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bullock died in infancy and the remainder are: John, who died in 1857 and was an able lawyer of Hickman; Harriet, the widow of R. W. Walker; Hettie, a widow now living at Arlington, Kentucky; Edward Thomas; Pinkie, the widow of John G. Samuels and a resident of Clinton; and Mary, widow of C. T. Rudd, of Stocksville, Mississippi. Mrs. Bullock died in 1880, aged about sixty-five years. Edward Thomas Bullock was born in Hickman, Kentucky, September 13, 1847, and studied law under L. D. Husbands, of Paducah. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and for the following five years practiced at Paducah, since which time he has followed his profession in Hickman county. His political support is given to the Democratic party, and religiously he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1872 Mr. Bullock was united in marriage to Miss Bettie Pettit, of Princeton, Kentucky, and she bore him one son, E. T., Jr., a steamboat engineer. Mrs. Bullock died in 1875, and he was afterward married to Mrs. Della Reid, nee Cobb, by whom he has one child, Della. Bullock Emmerson Clark Wilkerson Murdough Rothwell Meeks Walker Samuels Rudd Husbands Pettit Reid Cobb = Culpeper-VA Cumberland-KY Hickman-KY MS McCracken-KY Caldwell-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fulton/bullock.ei.txt