Mary, the wife of Isaac Mullens is thought to be a daughter of Charles Cocke and Ellender Ewing. The names of their children support this theory, with a Charles, Jane and Elenor. Charles Cocke was also named the administrator of the Estate of Isaac Mullens and was the guardian of their children. (Unfortunately, although I have been told that Mary Mullens' maiden name was Cocke, I have been unable to verify this information.)

Assuming that both Mary and Jane are daughters of Charles and Ellender, it is my guess that she was born about 1773, which means that she was married to Isaac Mullen at the age of 16. Mary's mother Ellender Ewing probably did not move to Virginia until 1770, there probably would not have been enough time for her to meet Charles Cocke and give birth to Mary prior to the birth of Jane Cocke, which took place in 1772.

There is some evidence that Isaac Mullen, like John Lee Dibrell, is a descendant the Huguenots who settled in Manakin Town, Virginia around 1700. Another interrelationship is between William Stephens, who married Jane Cordelia Mullen, and Gabriel Chrisman, who married Jane Cocke. Both are descendants of the Germans who were among the first settlers of the Shenandoah Valley. And, as can be seen below, the Haven family is related to the Stephens family by marriage.  (Isaac Stephens and Rebecca Haven are also my ancestors.)

Isaac Mullen first appears in the records in 1792 where he is mentioned in a couple of unusual documents: The first is in 1792, where, at his request, Charles Cocke was appointed as his legal guardian. (This is particularly odd because it appears that, by this time, he was married to Mary Cocke and already had a 2 year old child.) The second is in 1794, where he is sued by his mother for support. (This may have marked the year of his 21st birthday, since in January 1794, he is first shown purchasing land.) He is also mentioned in connection with Charles Cocke in the 1792 Agreement to provide and provision a Militia for the State of Virginia.

Following the death of Isaac Mullens, Mary had a couple of children with Meschack Gregory. However, instead of marrying her, Meschack Gregory married Anne Beeson.

I have recently received a huge amount of information from Martha Mullens Tutt, a descendant of Mary Cocke Mullens, who has written a book entitled "William Mullens, 1807-1895 of Wayne County, Kentucky. Although the book is out of print, she has sent me several pages from her book. These include a large number of interesting documents relating to Isaac Mullens, Charles Cocke and many others. It is safe to say that she has at least doubled the amount of information that has been gathered relating to Charles Cocke, including the Wayne County deeds which indicated that he had moved to Madison County, Kentucky. Needless to say, it is going to take a long time to sort through all the documents and to put them on the webpage in any semblance of order.

Linda G. Murtaugh <LMurtaugh@m.cc.utah.edu>

Mary Cocke
b. cir 1773
m. Isaac Mullens, bef 1790
   Parents: Thomas Mullens and Margaret
   b: est 1773
   d: 1803
Children:
   i. Charles Mullens
      b. 05 Apr 1790
      m. Amy Haven, 1818 Wayne County, KY
         Parents: poss. William Haven and Elizabeth Shell
         b. cir 1800
  ii. Jane Cordelia Mullens
      b. 1795 Lee County, VA
      d. 1859 Miller County, MO
      m. William Stephens, 14 Apr 1814 Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Isaac Stephens and Rebecca Haven
         b. cir 1790 Montgomery County, VA
         d. 28 Feb 1837 Mt. Pleasant, Miller County, MO
 iii. Elenor Mullens
      b. cir 1797
      m. Isaac Johnson, Dec 1815 Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Unknown
  iv. Margaret Mullens
      b. 13 Feb 1802
      m. Cannon Worsham, 05 Oct 1819 Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Unknown
   v. Nancy B. Mullens
      b. cir 1803
      m. Thomas Oscar Witten, 19 Jul 1820 Wayne County, KY
         Parents: Samuel Cecil Witten and Susannah L. Greenup
         b: 26 Dec 1801 Tazewell County, VA
         d: 30 Dec 1841 Camden County, MO
2. Meschack Gregory
  vi. Edward Mullens
      b. cir 1805, Wayne County, KY
 vii. William Mullens
      b. 06 Dec 1806, Wayne County, KY
      d. 17 Jun 1895, Antelope, Jack County, TX
      m1 Elizabeth R. Gann, 31 May 1836, Wayne County, KY
         Likely Parents: Thomas and Frances Gann
      m2 Frances Emily Allen, 26 Jan 1847, TX
         Parents: James Green Allen and Frances Flowers
   [Meschack Gregory m. Anne Beeson, 28 Dec 1809, Wayne County, KY]