David Gene Fullen

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Slaying ends a religious mission
Arlington man charged in death of 'street minister'
By Kristen N. Sullivan
Arlington-David Fullen's mission for the past few weeks had been to draw 2,000 banners for this weekend's March for Jesus in downtown Fort Worth, his mother said.

The last banner, depicting a crown of thorns on a 4-foot-high cross, hangs unfinished on his bedroom wall in Carol Fullen's west Arlignton apartment. Police said Fullen's mission was cut short about 4:30 a.m. Saturday when he was run over three time by a pickup in the parking lot of a neighborhood bar.

Cliff M. Livingston, 42, of the 1300 block of Ashbury Drive, was charged with murder yesterday in the killing outside Tanstaafl Pub, 409 N. Bowen Road. Livingston was arrested Saturday...

"David's a real good talker, and I think he began ministering to this guy and sent the man into a tizzy," said Danny Smith, Fullen's associate pastor at Arlington Christian Center, 801 Bardin Road. "I think David was matyred for his faitn."

Fullen, 23, became what friends called a "street minister" about three years ago after joining the southwest Arlington church. Most evenings, he dressed in his black motorcycle jacket and black boots, collected his Bible and the pamplets he wrote describing his religious experiences and headed for Dallas' West End Marketplace or Deep Ellum, said Carol Fullen, his mother.

About 1:30 Saturday moning, Fullen joined a neighbor, Jesus Estrada, at Tanstaafl Pub next door to his Bowen Road apartment complex. At Tanstaafl, the two friends began talking to Livingston, witnesses said.

"I was sitting at the bar between the man and David," said Estrada, 25. "When the bar was about to close, the guy said, "Let's go to his house and have a couple of beer."

The three men left the bar in Livingston's 1987 gray Chevrolet S10 pickup....Livingston (later) drove them back to the pub.

Back at the bar, Estrada and Fullen climbed out of the pickup, police said. Fullen walked toward the tailgate, and the truck backed into Fullen, then ran over him three times, Estrada said.

"I ran to David and tried to pick him up," Estrada said, "He couldn't get up."

"He was just laying there," Estrad said. "I said: 'Don't give up. Don't give up, man."...Fullen ws pronounced dead at the scene.

Fullen, who portrayed Jesus this spring in Arlington Christian Center's Easter pagent, had completed several religious drawings for this weekend's interdominational march. Smith said children at the church are drawing and photocopying other banners to finish Fullen's work.

(Courtesy of Veronica Fullen Limsky)

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Otto W. Fullen Jr.

Services for Otto W. Fullen Jr., 44, of Dallas will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Southland Funeral Home Chapel with burial following at the Southland Cemetery.

Mr. Fullen died Monday at work in Dallas after a short illness.

A lifetime resident of Dallas, Mr. Fullen worked for Highland Construction Co. of Dallas. He served in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army and was a member of the Baptist Church.

He is suvived by his wife, Carol McClure Fullen of Dallas; two sons, David G. and Scott A. Fullen of Dallas; one daughter, Veronica (Roni) Baker of Balch Springs; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto W. Fullen; sone brother, Rev. Jerry Fullen of Balch Springs; and one sister, Katherine Elaine Cooper of Grand Praire.

(Courtesy of Veronica Fullen Limsky)

Otto married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His birth information, as shown in the scan of BIRTHS recorded in the Fullen bible, was as follows:

Otto 1919

Sunday, September 21, 1997
Grand Prarie News
Otto W. Fullen

Otto W. Fullen, 77, of Hutchins died Tuesday, Sept. 16, in a Dallas hospital following a lengthy illness. He was preceded in death by his son, Otto W. Fullen, Jr. in 1985, and grandson, David Fullen in 1992.

Born in Como, Mr. Fullen had been a Hutchins resident for the past two and one half years and a longtime resident of Dallas County. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. Mr. Fullen retired in 1972, from Texas Pacific Motor Freight Company in Dallas as a truck driver. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Canton.

Mr. Fullen is survived by his wife of 60 years, Effie Fullen of Hutchins; daughter and son-in-law Jerry and Mary Fullen of Balch Springs; sisters Adell Starnes of Lancaster and Dorothy Durbin of Dallas; brother Travis Fullen of Aurora, Col.; eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Services took place Friday, Sept. 19, at Bean-Massey-Burge Chapel in Grand Prarie. Burial followed in Grand Prarie's Southland Cemetery.

Bean-Massey-Burge Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

(Courtesy of Veronica Fullen Limsky)

Otto married Effie Mae Starnes on 9 Apr 1938 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. Effie was born on 18 Mar 1917 in Irving, Dallas County, Texas; died on 10 Mar 2002 in Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas; was buried in Southland Cemetery, Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The daughter of Samuel Tilford Starnes/Sternes and Sarah Annie Wyatt.

Lloyd married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His birth information, as shown in the scan of BIRTHS recorded in the Fullen bible, was as follows:

James M 1881

On February 24, 1937, he applied for a Social Security card. The following is a transcription of this application: Form SS-5, Treasury Department, IRS U.S. Social Security Act Application for Account Number 458-01-1541 James Marion Fullen R.F.D. No 6 Grand Saline, Van Zandt County, Texas Employer Seby C. Miller Overton, Rusk County, Texas Age 55 DOB September 22nd, 1881 Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Father Jim Fullen Mother Elizabeth Parker Male White Date Signed February 24th, 1937 Signed J. M. Fullen

The Texas Death Index has his place of death as Dallas County, Texas. Tiffany Layman instead lists the location of his death as Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas. Both show the date as September 4, 1951, shortly before his 50th birthday.

(Research):
Census Information:

In 1910, there was a Marion Fullen, age 22, who was a carpenter and living as a boarder in the home of Lewis STONE of Tennessee in Angelina County, Texas. He was listed as married, even though no wife or children appeared to be in the home with him. This was PROBABLY a different Marion Fullen based on the age (which should have been around 28).

1920 Hopkins County, TEXAS Census
Fullen, Marion J 38 Tx US US Farmer
Fullen, Julia 28 Ar Ga Ga
Fullen, Elsie 11 Ark Tx Ark
Fullen, Clifton 9 Ok Tx Ark
Fullen, Bessie May 6 Ark Tx Ark
Fullen, Adella 2 Tx Tx Ark
Fullen, Odelle 2 Tx Tx Ark
Fullen, Otto 3/12 Tx Tx Ark

1930 Hopkins County, TEXAS Census
Fullen, Marion 48 Tx Tx Al Farmer
Fullen, Julia 38 Ar Ga Al
Fullen, Clifton 19 Ok Tx Ar
Fullen, Odell 13 Tx Tx Ar
Fullen, Adell 13 Tx Tx Ar
Fullen, Otto 10 Tx Tx Ar
Fullen, Elizabeth 9 Tx Tx Ar
Fullen, Travis 4 Tx Tx Ar
Fullen Troy 3/12 Tx Tx Ar
Cooper, Anna 68 Al

James married Julia Bay Cooper on 5 Sep 1907 in Ashdown, Little River County, Arkansas. Julia (daughter of John M. Cooper and Anna M. Pounds) was born on 13 Aug 1891 in Ashdown, Little River County, Arkansas; died on 18 Oct 1976 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; was buried in Shooks Chapel Cemetery, Sulphur Spring, Hopkins County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On her Texas Death Certificate, viewable online at FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, she is shown as a daughter of Ernest Cooper and Anna Pounds. The informant is her son, Bennie Fullen.

Name: Julia Bay Fullen
Death Date: 18 Oct 1976
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 85 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 13 Aug 1891
Birthplace: Arkansas
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Father's Name: Ernest Cooper
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Anna Pounds
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Film Number: 2243980
Digital Film Number: 4005494
Image Number: 01235
Reference Number: 74096
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


(Medical):See attached sources.

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Married:
Marriage Information, as shown in the scan of the UNIONS page of the Fullen Family Bible, was shown as follows:

James & Julia 1910

Tiffany Layman has more precise information regarding this marriage. She writes that their marriage record was filed on 7 Sept 1907 in Ashdown, Little River County, Arkansas, and that J.M FULLEN married Julia Bay Cooper on 5 Sept 1907.

Ameth Carmicheal also shows them as the parents of an Otis Fullen, born circa 1911. Tiffany Layman, however, disagrees, writing on March 20, 2006 "I have found no proof of this, I believe he is J.M.'s nephew. He is listed in the bible but not in any census records. Nor do any other Fullens I have talked to know of his relationship to the Fullen family."