Thank you. I have to keep a couple of programs open as I work...Google Earth plus a tract locator add-on and another site which shows the changes in county boundaries. Sometimes the changes aren't obvious, they can be a matter of yards or feet. I don't have the gear to track the smaller changes, but I usually do OK enough to know the main shifts. I am giving here the locations on the original censuses...Reeds Creek census district in 1860 was in Lawrence County. Later, in 1892, Rebecca Mulllen of Lawrence Co, AR remarried. She was on the same land then as she was in 1862, but the census district was realigned to Strawberry Township by 1870.

I am trying to get some history on the Mullen family. I think Rebecca may have been the wife of Thomas Mullen b. Ireland and killed in the CW in 1862. She was born Rebecca Durham b. GA, if I can trust one bare-bones genealogy I located. Pretty sure she is the one who filed a pension claim on Thomas Mullen in 1890 but it either was rejected or she didn't follow through, and I think at that point she opted to marry an old friend. There are a couple of Rebel Archives transactions for Thomas and Rebecca and other Mullens in AR, TN, and AL for providing food, fodder, etc. There were other Mullens in the area of Lawrence County and I would be grateful for some help sorting them out.

Other surnames that might come into play with the Mullen (Mullin, Mullens, etc) in 1860 in Reeds Creek Twp and 1870 and 1880 in Strawberry Twp in Lawrence County, AR, and also in 1860 and 1870 in Breckenridge Twp in Jackson County are King, Croom, Dennis, Smith, Britton or Brittan, Johnson, Howard, and Long.

Thanks!