Daniel DULIN

The following bio was taken from pages 182-183 of the book entitled “Rusk County History” compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

Transcribed by Gloria Riley

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Rusk County TX Coordinator

The progenitor of the Dulin Family in Rusk County, Daniel Dulin, was born in 1823 near Clover, York County, South Carolina, the youngest son of James and Francis E. (Durham) Dulin. The Dulins of York County were of Scotch-Irish descent. The family migrated from the eastern seaboard state of Virginia and settled in the vicinity of Clover, then part of Tyron County, North Carolina, in the early 1790’s. Daniel’s father’s plantation near Clover was bordered on the north by a meandering stream called Beaver Dam Creek and to the south by the Bethel Presbyterian Church. The early Dulins were ardent Presbyterians and descendants of this family attended Bethel Church for more than a century. Daniel’s parents, James and Francis Dulin, lie buried in the adjoining churchyard. In 1848, Daniel married Dorcas Ann McCall (1832-1860) and left South Carolina, beginning his ten-year trek to Texas. This journey brought him to Carroll County, Georgia, where, in October 1849, Daniel and Dorcas’s first child, John J. Dulin, was born. Two daughters, Mary Francis and Elizabeth, were born during Daniel’s stay in Alabama, between 1851 and 1855. Daniel Dulin arrived in Rusk County, Texas in 1858 and purchased from Alexander Hitson, for $400.00, a one-hundred and sixty acre tract of land, located just outside the town of Minden, being a part of the John Jackson Headright. The first years at Minden were hard ones as evidenced by Daniel’s acknowledgement of his indebtedness to John T. C. Patrick as recorded in the deed records of Rusk County for the year 1859. Daniel pledged, in payment of his debt to Mr. Patrick, “one dark bay horse and one man’s saddle and my present crop of growing corn.” The following year, Dorcas A. Dulin died, leaving Daniel with six children to raise on his own: John J., born in 1849, Mary Francis, born in 1851, Elizabeth, born in 1855, Bradner J., born in 1857, Robert D. Born in 1859, and Emma D., born in 1860. On May 18, 1862, Daniel married Amanda J. Runnells. The following month, he enlisted in Company “H” 19th Regiment Texas Infantry Confederate States America, commanded by Captain Harvey A. Wallace, a fellow native from York County. Daniel served as the company fifer and undoubtedly saw action with Captain Wallace at the engagement against Union troops on the battlefield at Mansfield, Louisiana. Daniel received a medical discharge from military service sometime shortly after the Louisiana campaign in 1864. In the same year he sold his land at Minden and left Rusk County, moving to Miller County, Arkansas. All of his children, however, remained in Rusk County, living in the homes of other settlers from their father’s native York County, South Carolina. Daniel Dulin resettled in Garland, Arkansas and married a third time. One child, a daughter, Armintie M. Dulin, was born to this marriage in 1873. Daniel Dulin died in Miller County, Arkansas on January 8, 1887. He was preceded in death by his last wife, Elizabeth. Their daughter, Armintie, orphaned at age fourteen, came to Rusk County to live with her half-brother, Dr. Robert Duff Dulin. Written by John Dulin