Beverly Hall Walker is a genealogist who will be attending this year's Genealogy Jamboree with Pam Richards and Ted and Donna Yoder. She has researched Rich Mullins' ancestral lines. She discovered that although Rich Mullins was born in Indiana, he has deep genealogical roots in Letcher County, Kentucky and the surrounding mountains. In the process of her research, she found she shares five of Rich's lines. Many of his ancestors lived and died on the ridges of Pine Mountain in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Rich Mullins’ paternal southern Appalachian roots came from his Mullins, Wells, Lewis, Osborne, Whitaker, Kelly, Maggard, Short, Robertson, Boggs, Pennington, Caudill, and Adams ancestors. His cousins are too numerous to mention.
They came from hardy stock: explorers, pioneers, war veterans, farmers,
preachers and coal miners; all working hard to find their place in the world as they continued to give birth to the next generation of musicians, artists, and craftsman. Such ancestors left us the rich legacy of their majestic mountain home.
Beverly Hall Walker has compiled Rich Mullins’ ancestral lines in the spiral bound book, "Going Home: A Sojourner's Appalachian Roots/ In Remembrance of Richard Wayne Mullins 1955-1997." In memory of Rich Mullins' dedication to funding charities for children and his devotion to developing the creative gifts of the next generation, and in honor of his Appalachian ancestors who gifted Rich with hands, feet and wings, she has chosen to donate the profits from her research to the Revelation Ranch Ministries in Letcher County, KY.
If you come to the Jamboree, be sure to visit our booth! We're A Candle to the Sun. Can't wait to see you there!
They came from hardy stock: explorers, pioneers, war veterans, farmers,
preachers and coal miners; all working hard to find their place in the world as they continued to give birth to the next generation of musicians, artists, and craftsman. Such ancestors left us the rich legacy of their majestic mountain home.
Beverly Hall Walker has compiled Rich Mullins’ ancestral lines in the spiral bound book, "Going Home: A Sojourner's Appalachian Roots/ In Remembrance of Richard Wayne Mullins 1955-1997." In memory of Rich Mullins' dedication to funding charities for children and his devotion to developing the creative gifts of the next generation, and in honor of his Appalachian ancestors who gifted Rich with hands, feet and wings, she has chosen to donate the profits from her research to the Revelation Ranch Ministries in Letcher County, KY.
If you come to the Jamboree, be sure to visit our booth! We're A Candle to the Sun. Can't wait to see you there!
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