John Mullins, the only known Revolutionary War soldier buried in Dickenson County, died in 1849 at the home of his son John, who in 1829 was the first settler on Holly Creek at what is now Clintwood. The Mullins family came from Toe River in Mitchell County, North Carolina. According to family tradition, John Mullins joined Col. William Campbell’s Over Mountain Men as they passed his home and was among the Patriots whose action turned the tide of battle at Kings Mountain in October 1780.