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By WAYNE F. BALDWIN
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Russell Bryant Pullen was born in 1913 and died 1993, thus making his time on earth among his family and other relations, eighty years. He was the third born child of his parents, Romie Branson and Minnie Oneal Atkins Pullen.
Nicknamed “Piggins,” for whatever reason, most commonly known and called by such, he was more often than not given to “pig headedness” when confronted on an issue. One could say he could not be easily persuaded.
His usual attire added to his overalls, a cap cocked a little to one side, and of course his pipe, which was usually badly worn from so much use. He carried his pig tail tobacco which he both smoked and chewed, and as we all knew loved his drink.
Now, taking all these accoutrements into consideration added to his persona, think of a man who loved the game cards. He played with such zeal and zest one would have guessed Russell to have been some cardshark often on the scene at Atlantic City or Vegas. These were his passions, these were his loves. This in a nut shell was Russell.
He was born on Piney Run, or the South Fork of the Thornton River, near its headsprings. This is now within the bounds of the Shenandoah National Park. When he wasquite small his family moved to Pickeral Ridge to the place which had once been Russell’s great-grandfather, John A. Pullen’s. He grew up here atop this rugged mountain setting with his five brothers and one sister. Becoming fashioned by the influences of that generation and age.
I think losing his mother when he was but sixteen was devastating to him. Although Russell’s father married an amiable woman for his second wife, she couldn’t have taken his mother’s place because she was a stranger first, and secondly not much older than himself.
Russell was married first to Anna Jones. By this union were born two children; Lewis B. and Edward L. Pullen. Lewis predeceased his father only a little more than a year, and this, too, had to be a blow to the old man. -
The first marriage did not
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