Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 673-675 [Graves]

     BENJAMIN N. PULLEN, who combines the occupations of farming and
blacksmithing at Farmington, Graves county, has became so thoroughly
identified with its life and progress that he is an out and out
Kentuckian, as much so as any native of the state.  He is a veteran
of the Civil war, and as a farmer and business man has made a
reputation for absolute integrity and reliability.  He is an artist
at his trade, and many of his patrons could not be persuaded to take
their work to any other blacksmith, for they have depended upon his
skill for years and have always found him satisfactory and obliging.
     Mr. Pullen is of Irish descent on the paternal side, and his
grandfather, Archibald Pullen, was closely connected with the
original stock although he was born in Virginia.  William C. and
Nancy A. (Hall) Pullen, the parents of Benjamin Pullen, were both
born in Tennessee, the former in Davidson county and the latter in
Dixon county.  They both lived long and useful lives, and resided in
Graves county, Kentucky, during the latter part of their lives. 
William Pullen died in 1892, at the age of eighty-one, and his wife
in 1901, aged eighty-five.  They were the parents of ten children,
as follows: William J.; Mary A.; Elmeta, deceased; Marshall, who was
killed in the Civil war; Benjamin N.; George; James D.; Sophia;
Josephine; and one that died in infancy.
     Benjamin N. Pullen was born in Humphreys county, Tennessee,
January 13, 1844, and was educated in the schools of that state and
of Kentucky.  He came to Graves county, Kentucky, with his parents,
at the age of fourteen, and this has been his home ever since.  He
enlisted in Company B, Second Kentucky Cavalry, being still a boy at
the time.  He was taken prisoner by the Union forces at the battle
of Lookout Mountain, and was held captive at Rock Island, Illinois,
for eighteen months.  He was then exchanged and paroled for sixty
days, but before going to the front.  He has had his shop at
Farmington ever since the war, and in addition to this pursuit tends
a farm of seventy acres situated near town.  He enjoys a fair share
of worldly prosperity, and leads a contented life and has a happy
home.
     He affiliates with the Democratic party, and his religious
faith is that of the Primitive Baptist church.  In 1966 he married
Miss Cornelia L. Williams, who was born and educated in Calloway
county, Kentucky.  The following children make up their family, and
those living have already taken up or are preparing to assume the
duties of life: Ernest E., Alice P., Leonard G., Edgar L., William
A., deceased, James D., Ethel May, Myrtle, deceased, Benjamin L. and
Sallie. 

Pullen Hall Williams
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Ireland VA Davidson-TN Dixon-TN Humphreys-TN Calloway-KY

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