My Genealogy Hound

W. H. Pullen. It was in the capacity of a merchant that Mr. Pullen first became acquainted with the people of Mississippi County, and they with him, and such has been his record as a business man, that his success is assured. He came to Frenchman’s Bayou from Memphis in July, 1888, and bought out Dr. Joyner’s store, since which time he has enlarged the building and added to the stock, so that now he has the largest and best selected stock of goods in the county outside of Osceola. Mr. Pullen has been recently appointed postmaster at Bardstown. He was born in Sardis, Panola County, Miss., but moved with his parents to Memphis, where he was reared and educated. When but sixteen years of age young Pullen embarked in business for himself by working for the Hernando Insurance Company for a number of years. He was also engaged with Lemon & Gale, of Memphis, in the dry goods business. At the age of twenty-seven he came to Mississippi County, and, as above stated, bought out the store of Dr. Joyner. He carries a stock of general merchandise valued at about $6,000, and is one of the promising young business men of the county. He chose his life companion in the person of Miss Lou Haynes, daughter of Samuel H. Haynes, a Kentuckian by birth, who was colonel in the Union army during the war, and who had two brothers in the Confederate army. To Mr. and Mrs. Pullen has been born one child, King Haynes Pullen, a bright baby boy, the delight of the family. Benjamin K. Pullen, father of W. H. Pullen, was a native of North Carolina, who came to Memphis, Tenn., before the war, and during the war was in the Confederate service. He occupied a position as captain of the commissary department in a Mississippi regiment. When Memphis fell into the hands of the Union army, he brought his family to Panola County, Miss. After the war the family moved back to Memphis. A brother of our subject, Charles Lesslie Pullen, now one of the editors of the Sunday Times of Memphis, has been elected an honorary member of the Folk-Lore Society, of London, England, a very exclusive club, he being among the few members receiving that honor in the United States.