My great-great grandfather, Jesse Mullies (1814-1905)was Barnet's older brother, other brothers were Thomas (1829-1863) and James Bartlett (1833-1896). Thomas died in Richmond Military Hospital, Dec. 1863, and his widow Mary Louisa Jefferson Mullies traveled by ox cart to retrieve body (Feb., '64)and return it for burial in Hendren-Mullis cemetery. Ca. 1983 I assisted grand daughters to have military headstone placed by Oma T. Knight (1911-1990)who was descended from same George Mullies as were these three brothers. Pro Union sentiment was strong in the family as in Union Grove generally: Thomas resisted further service in Confederacy, and was flogged accordingly, dying shortly thereafter. His brother Jas. Bartlett deserted the Confederacy, walked to Knoxville, Tn. where he joined Union forces and was later discharged from same as a corporal. Eldest brother Jesse had left Vilkes/Iredell at sixteen and accompanied other Iredell Mullis/Mullies in trek to Ohio in 1830, later lived in Indiana and Illinois, where his eldest son Samuel volunteered in '61, serving with Ill. Vol. Cav. 7th Reg., Company D through death in Memphis, Apr. 1, 1864. In '66 Jesse and his sizable family settled in Bates Co., Mo. on the Kansas border; in 1881 and 1882, his brother Jas. Bartlett & family, widowed sister-in-law Mary Louisa joined him in Bates Co. The strong tradition of Pro Union sympathies was emphasized by senior family members when I was a boy in 1950s. In 1984 I published my family research, Documentary History of the English Speaking Mullis Family, which is now considerably revised and being prepared for publication. I did not know this history of Barnet's Confederate service, death and interment. Very interesting; he was the only childless of the three brothers, all the descendants of the others joined my great-great grandfather Jesse in 1880s. Other of the early 1800s Wilkes/Iredell Mullis/Mullies also wound up in Mo. and Ks., viz. Richard, b. c. 1811-obit. Henry co., Mo., c. 1893after lengthy residence in Indiana; another Ambrose Mullis in 1860 Kans. Barnet's death at the plow is touching, in 1887; his estate amounted to %50.00, was probated in 1893 and divided among his brothers in Mo. that year. I am most appreciative of this memorial erected for him. His brother's death as a resister of Confederate Service, his burial in Richmond and retrival by widow via ox cart to Hendren Mullis cemetery, is my family's most remarkable account relating to the Civil War. I knew all of his grandchildren in Mo. when growing up. The MullIES spelling was dominant in this family. My revised book details descent of the Wilkes/Iredell Mullis family commencing with arrival of John Mullis in Virginia in 1658.