Oldest child of Jacob Fullenwider & Catharine Winter, Peter was born (near Scott's Station) in Shelby County, Kentucky. (His father had migrated to this area when he was 16 with his parents in 1783.) By 1840 he had migrated to Mississippi where he met and married his wife (Belinda / Balinda).

1830 Covington, Mississippi Census
Peter H Fullenwider

1834 - Marriage to Belinda McNair in Holly Springs, Marshall, MS

The first protestant minister to move into the Mexican territory of Texas

1835 - Applied for a Land Grant from the State of Coahulia and Texas

Bet. 1838–1846 - The family returned to & lived in Mississippi

1846 - The family returned to Grimes County, TX
Texas, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, Name: P.H. Fullenwider

1850 Grimes, Texas Census
Peter H Fullinwider

1860 Huntsville, Walker, Texas Census
Peter H Fuldenwider

(There are many accounts of Peter which URLs will be included below but this article seems to be the most concise]

FULLINWIDER, PETER HUNTER (1797-1867). Peter Hunter Fullinwider, the first Presbyterian missionary in Texas, son of Jacob and Katherine (Winter) Fullinwider, was born on June 6, 1797, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. He was trained for the ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1827 to 1830 and licensed to preach by the Brunswick Presbytery in New Jersey in 1830. In 1831 he made a missionary tour through East and South Texas-probably from San Augustine to San Felipe-as the first Presbyterian missionary to Texas. He distributed Bibles and other religious books and preached as he journeyed. On March 18, 1834, he married Belinda McNair (McNoir) near Holly Springs, Mississippi. They had two sons and two daughters. Fullinwider returned at once after his marriage to Texas, where, on September 3, 1834, he assisted two Methodist ministers, John Wesley Kenney and Henry Stephenson, in a camp meeting on Caney Creek near the site of present Kenney. In September 1835 at the same place Fullinwider and the Cumberland Presbyterian Sumner Bacon assisted the same two Methodist ministers in another camp meeting.

In late 1835 or early 1836 Fullinwider moved his family to Fort Houston, near the site of present Palestine, where he remained until the Runaway Scrape. He was shepherding the women and children toward the Old Stone Fort at Nacogdoches for protection when the news of the battle of San Jacinto stopped the flight. In 1838 Fullinwider returned to Mississippi, where he remained until 1846 as pastor of Jaynesville Presbyterian Church. That year he returned to Texas. He traveled first to Fort Houston, then to Nacogdoches, where he stayed for several months, and then on to the Huntsville area, where he organized and preached in Bethel Church (now Madisonville). He remained in Huntsville until he died of yellow fever on August 25, 1867. His wife and daughter died in the same epidemic.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
William A. McLeod, Fullinwider and McFarland (1931). Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. (Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1898, 1942-). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffu04

A well-respected resource for the Fullenwiders is
Henrietta E. Bromwell, 1910
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Bromwell_Genealogy.html?id=0WA2AAAAMAAJ

History of First Presbyterian Church
http://www.firstpreshuntsvilletx.org/#!our-history/c9ow

Texas State Historical Association
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ipp01

Presbyterian Heritage Center
http://www.phcmontreat.org/ThisDayInHistoryIndex-October.htm

Character Certificates in the General Land Office of Texas
By Gifford E. White
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0806312513

The name carries down as both Fullenwider as well as Fullinwider.

The location of his grave has not yet been found but he & his wife both died in Hunstville, Walker, Texas.