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Surnames: Parks, Cox, Clifford, VanFossan, McNamar
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JACOB L. MULLIS
By Special Correspondent.
BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. 2 -- Jacob L. Mullis, 79 years old, a veteran of the civil war, died at
the Scott boarding house at 121 West Jackson street after an illness of about a year of
general debility. Mr. Mullis had resided in Brazil for about three years, coming here
from Stilesville. He is survived by the widow Sarah Mullis, of Terre Haute; three
daughters, Mrs. Rupert Cox, Indianapolis; Mrs. Ray Miller and Mrs. Edna Gettschalk, of
Terre Haute, and three sons, John and Harry, of Stilesville, and James of Terre Haute.
Friends may view the remains at Miller & Sons' undertaking establishment after 2
o'clock Friday afternoon. A private funeral will be held at the Christian church at
2:20 o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be in Cottage Hill cemetery. extracted by
Kathy Scott <kscott(a)kdsi.net> from the Friday, 2 Nov 1923, Terre Haute, IN, Tribune,
pg 2.
MRS. SARAH MULLIS.
Mrs. Sarah Mullis, 86 years old, died at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning at the residence
of a daughter, Mrs. Richard McNamar, 1331 Liberty avenue. She is survived, besides Mrs.
McNamar, by two other daughters, Mrs. Robert Cox, of Indianapolis and Mrs. Ray Miller of
Terre Haute; three sons, Harry Mullis, of Stilesville; John Mullis of Coatesville, and
James L. Mullis of Terre Haute; sixteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon at the residence of the
daughter, with continued services at 1:30 o'clock at the Plymouth Congregational
church, Seventeenth and Sycamore streets. Burial will be in Highland Lawn cemetery.
~~extracted by Kathy Scott <kscott(a)kdsi.net> from Thursday, 7 March 1935 Terre Haute
Tribune, pg 2.
JAMES L. MULLIS
DIES; RITES TUESDAY
James L. Mullis, 86 years old, 40 south Twenty-fourth street, a retired ticket agent for
the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at 7:45 o'clock Saturday evening at Union Hospital.
He was ticket agent for the railroad for 44 years until he retired in 1938.
Mullis was a past master of the Euclid Lodge No. 573, F&AM; he was Tyler of the lodge
for 27 years. He was a member of the Terre Haute Chapter No. 11 of the RAM, the Terre
Haute Council No. 8 of the Knights Templar, the Terre Haute Commandery No. 16 of the
Knights Templar, the Scottish Rite Valley of Terre Haute, and the Zorah Shrine.
He also was a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church. Survivinig are two
daughters, Mrs. Artie L. Clifford of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Marguerite VanFossan of
Evansville; one son, Oscar R. of Allen Park, Mich.; two sisters, Mrs. Alice Cox of
Indianapolis and Mrs. Edna McNamar of Terre Haute; one brother, John of Stilesville; two
grandsons and three great-grand-children.
The body was taken to the Cross Funeral Home where friends may call after 7 p.m. Sunday,
and where funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Park. Euclid Lodge No. 573 will conduct graveside
rites. ~~extracted by Kathy Scott <kscott(a)kdsi.net> from the Sunday, 10 May 1959,
Terre Haute Tribune, pg 6.
OSCAR R. MULLIS
Oscar R. Mullis, 66, of Plainfield, died at the Veterans Hospital in Indianapolis at 4:30
p.m. Sunday. He was a veteran of WWI, Past Master of Lincoln Park Masonic Lodge No. 539
in Michigan, a member of the Scottish Rite in Detroit, Mich., and also a member of
Plymough Congregational Church. He is survived by his wife, May; two sisters, Mrs. Artie
L. Clifford and Mrs. Marguerite Van Fossan, both of Terre Haute; two nephews John R.
Parks, Jr., of Terre Haute and Lt. James A. VanFossan, of Augusta, Ga. The body is at the
Cross Funeral Home where friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral services will be
held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Highland Lawn Cemetery. ~~extracted by Kathy Scott
<kscott(a)kdsi.net> from Monday, 29 August 1966 Terre Haute Tribune, pg 2.