Joseph James Bullock (1812 - 1892)

Born 23 Dec 1812 in Fayette, Kentucky

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Died 9 Nov 1892 at age 79 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky

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Preceded by 45th Chaplain Byron Sunderland

Joseph J. Bullock 46th Chaplain of the United States Senate Presbyterian Appointed: March 24, 1879

Succeeded by 47th Chaplain Elias DeWitt Huntley

Biography

Centre College - Danville, Ky Alumni Joseph James Bullock 1832

Born Dec. 23, 1812, in Fayette co., Ky. Gospel ministry, Presbyterian; Princeton Theo. Sem., 1835-36; ord. by Pby. W. Lexington, Sept. 1837; Frankfort, KY, 1837-47;

Supt. Pub. Educ. KY, 1838; visitor to W. Point, 1839; cor. sec. and gen. agt. Dom. MS, 1847-49; Walnut Hill, KY, and Prin. Fem. Sem., Walnut Hill, 1849-53; Sec. ch., Louisville, KY, 1853-55; Prin. Fem. Sem., Walnut Hill, 1855-60; fin. agt. Dan. Theo. Sem., 1860; Franklin St. ch., Baltimore, MD, 1861-70; Sec. ch., Alexandria, VA, 1870-74; First ch., Alexandria, VA, 1874-80; Chap. U.S. Sen, 1879-84; A.M., 1835; D.D. 1850.

Married to Miss Caroline J. Breckinridge of Danville, KY, Oct. 31, 1832; married 2nd to Mrs. Elizabeth Lavender, Feb. 23, 1869. P.O., Washington, D.C.

REV. JOSEPH J. BULLOCK Lexington Leader, Date: November 6, 1892, Location: p. 2 col. 3 Reverend Joseph J. Bullock, D.D. of Washington D.C., an elder brother of Major R. S. Bullock, is lying dangerously ill with pneumonia, at the residence of Judge J. D. Hunt, on North Broadway. Dr. Bullock is a native of Fayette County

(Note: Judge Joseph D. Hunt is his nephew. Son of his sister, Mary Ann (Bullock) Hunt.

This is an abstract of a long but informative letter -

Baker-53780 Baltimore, Oct. 27th, 1867
Mr. Josias Wingfield

Dear Sir:

I read your letter of August 4th with great pleasure. I did not receive it until sometime in September - The extreme illness of Mrs. Bullock, who has been at the point of death for months from that terrible disease, pulmonary consumption. She cannot possibly last much longer. - I may say to you with propriety that she is, a woman of the brightest order of mind, and of the greatest moral excellence. Her whole heart and mind and soul was exhibited in the behalf of the poor suffering prisoners from the South and by her pen and her personal influence she secured between $20,000 and $30,000 for their benefit, which she distributed mainly through others, as her own health was too feeble to give her personal attention. She obtained large sums from New York, California and England. I regret that you will never see her in this world.
My Grandfather James Bullock married as his first wife, a Wingfield, and had by her two sons and two daughters - the sons were named Thomas and Wingfield - the daughters were named Barbara and Milly. Thomas has twice married, his first wife was a Miss Redd, and by her he had 7 children, 4 sons and 3 daughters. His sons were named James, Thomas, Mordecai and Wingfield - and his daughters Malissa, and Lucy, who married the celebrated Baptist preacher, Jeremiah Vardeman, and Ann. His second wife was a Miss Dale, and by her he had two children, William and Waller.
My uncle Thomas was a large fine looking man of great physical strength, of strong mind and noted for his integrity and firmness of character - he was the leading layman in the Baptist Church, was the standing Moderator of the Elkhorn Association, and elected to the Legislature from Woodford County. His sons by the first marriage, at least three of them, Thomas, Mordecai and Wingfield were splendid looking men.
My uncle Wingfield, brother of Thomas, married a distant relation of the same name, and had 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daughters, James, William, Mary Ann and Eliza. Just before his death he was elected to the Congress from the Louisville district over Judge Logan. His sons, James and William, are both living in Shelbyville, Ky., and are lawyers. William is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. Both of them have been repeatedly in both branches of the Legislature, and James was Secretary of State under Gov. Clarke.
My Aunt Milly married Mr. George Winn & Aunt Barbara married Mr. Ben Wilson, both men of independent fortunes and have left large and respected families.
My grandfather's second wife was a Miss Waller. My father, Waller Bullock was the only son of that marriage - there were five daughters, & all of them married and have large families. Only one of my aunts survives, Agnes, who is now near 90 years old. She married her cousin Robert Bullock, a brother of David Bullock, a wealthy gentleman who died in Richmond some 25 years ago.
My father married Miss Maria Burch, an aunt of Gen. John C. Breckenridge's wife, and they had ten children, eight of them lived to be grown - 5 sons and 3 daughters. The daughters were Mary Anne, Martha Pomphret and Sarah Jane. The sons were Joseph James (myself), Samuel Redd, Thomas Wingfield, Waller, and Robert Stapleton. Mary Ann married Mr. Peter Gordon Hunt, an educated farmer. Both of them are dead. They left four children, 3 sons & a daughter - named George, Waller, Joseph, and Maria. George is a preacher of the Baptist Church in Kentucky, and a professor in the Georgetown Baptist College, and there he was appointed president of their college, in Russellville, - he is now the pastor of the church in -------------, Waller is living in Wisconsin. Joseph is a promising young lawyer in Lexington, Kentucky, and Maria is living with us as one of our children. Joseph was in the Southern Army and acquitted himself well.
My sister Martha died single. Sarah married the Rev. John G. Simrall, a Presbyterian minister, who resides near Lexington, Kentucky, and is a man of means. They have 6 living children, 4 boys & 2 girls, and they have lost 4. Their eldest son, John, is a lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky, and is doing well in his profession. William & Joseph are young men, unmarried, and soldiers in the Southern Army, both are druggists - and Samuel is at college. Martha and Sarah are school girls.
I am the oldest son, and married Caroline Laurens Breckinridge, the 2nd daughter of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Mary Stanhope Smith, a sister of Gen. John C. Breckinridge. We have had 8 children. 5 of whom are living - we lost 2 little girls, Frances and Sarah, while they were babes. Joseph James died about 18 months ago in his 22nd year - he had always been delicate, and was one of the purest beings I ever saw.
Our living children are Waller, Cabell, and John, sons, and Mary Stanhope and Letitia Preston - girls - none of them married. Waller and Cabell were both in the Confederate service from the beginning to the end of the war. Waller is practicing law in Baltimore. Cabell graduated at the law school in Lexington, just before the war commenced, but he is now teaching a classical school here in partnership with Dr. Atkinson, a son of Bishop Atkinson of North Carolina. John was a student in Washington College at Lexington, Va., but came home on account of his mother's condition and is now with us. I am profoundly thankful to God for my children.
My brother, Samuel, who died of Cholera in 1849, was a lawyer & practiced law in Lexington, Ky. He and Gen. Breckenridge were classmates in College and were partners in the practice of law at the time of his death. He married Miss Eliza Overton Whitney and left three children - Waller, Dabney and Samuel. His wife is now dead and also his son, Dabney. Waller was in the Southern Army and is on his farm near Lexington. Samuel is at College in Kentucky.
My brother, Thomas Wingfield, married Miss Bettie Viley, daughter of Capt. Willa Viley of Kentucky. George W. Johnson, who fell at Shiloh and Provincial Governor of Kentucky married another daughter. Mrs. Viley, the mother, is the sister of the father of Gen. Gustavus W. Smith from your State. Thomas is a lawyer, and he & Gen. Breckinridge went out to Iowa as young men and were partners in the Law. They returned to Kentucky and married cousins. Thomas then gave up the law and went to farming - he afterwards resumed the practice of the law and continued it until the breaking out of the war when he went south. Since his return, he has lost his wife and 3 children. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He has three living children, all young, named Waller,-----, and Bettie.

My brother Waller died while at college, in his 18th year.
Robert, my youngest brother, was a Major in the Confederate army and married a Miss Franklin, and has three children.
My father, Waller Bullock, lived to be 80 years old and was remarkable for his strength of mind, force of will, and integrity of character. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and I think he was the best informed man on political interests I ever saw, certainly outside of the educated politicians. He was a life-long Democrat. Mr. Clay once said to me that my father covered more in political discussions, (conversational), than any man he had ever met, and that he seemed to be better acquainted with his political history than he was himself.
I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you in Baltimore. I learned from my father in his lifetime, that his family were related to the ---- and the Garlands. He had a cousin, Garland Bullock, who lived at the mouth of the Kentucky river, and left a large and highly influential family.

Should my life be spared to visit again my native state, Kentucky, I will take great pleasure in getting more complete and accurate information concerning our family relations.
May God help you and yours with all needed temporal blessings, and especially with the spiritual blessings of His Holy Spirit.

Your fraternally,
J. J. Bullock

Source

Lexington Leader (newspaper), Date: November 6, 1892, Location: p. 2 col. 3

• Wikipedia article for Joseph J. Bullock.

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