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- Mrs. Mullins
Mrs. Clara Angeline Mullins, 73, 940 Campbell Ave, died in Mercy Hospital Friday at 10:38 p.m.
Born in Rockcastle Co., Ky., she was a daughter of Frank and Marvella Barnes Pruitt.
She married Bennett Mullins May 26, 1921 in Livingston, Ky., and he preceded her in death Feb. 4, 1965.
She was a member of the North Fairfield Baptist Church.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Truman (Marie) Ponder, Mrs. Ruford (Mable) Gentry, Mrs. James (Helen) Swanner, Mrs. John (Bernice) Chandler and Mrs. Elmer (Pauline) Adams, all of Hamilton; two brothers, Tommy Spivey, Livingston, Ky., and Reilies Spivey, Dayton; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be in the Brown-Dawson Funeral Home, 330 Pershing Ave., Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, and visitation will be Monday from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
The Journal News, Hamilton, Ohio. Sunday, 17 November 1974.
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- LKH note:
Looking for more documentation to confirm.
Find a Grave gives her maiden name as Pruitt
Of Clara and Richard Mullins' five daughters, 4 of their records in Kentucky Birth Index give Clara's maiden name as Pruitt, but one, Bernice Cordia Mullins, gives mother's maiden name as Spivey.
I have not yet found any marriage for Clara prior to her being wife of Richard Mullins in 1930, so that is not where the surname Pruitt comes from.
I have, however, found that Clara's mother Marvella Barnes married David Spivey in 1905. Clara was born in 1901. It appears that Clara became a part of Marvella and David Spivey's family and took the surname of Spivey throughout her life. I have not found any information about her biological father other than the surname of Pruitt.
Another possible clue.
In the 1900 census Marvella (age 22), seamstress, is living in Livingston in the household of David & Mary Wolf. Mary and Marvella were sisters.
Next door is the family of James & Mary Prewitt, whose household includes two sons, John (age 20) and Joseph (age 8), and two daughters, Clara (age 12) and Ellen (age 9).
This may be one of the reasons I have not yet found any record with exact birth information for Clara.
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