A brief introduction to
The Killough Family in North Carolina
left is Ney right is Ray Killough
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| I would like to give Special Recognition to Ralph A. Killough and to the many others for their dedication to the Killough Family Reunion of North Carolina. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Mother Julia, holding Eula left is Ney right is Ray Killough |
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| Our Branch of the Killough family is known as the North Carolina/Arkansas branch. I can connect our branch here in NC to the branch in Arkansas at the beginning of this page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Records for the following were obtained from the Mormon Church library. |
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| William Killough was born in Virginia, 30 Oct, 1770. He was married to Eleanor in Va. on 11 Dec.1792. They had one child in Va. (James Killough), then moved to NC and had three more boys. William died in NC 1845, I don't know about Eleanor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Killough: born in Va. 1 Jan. 1796, died in NC 1865 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Killough: born in NC about 1798, married Elizabeth (Betsie) Bybee in Jamestown Ark. on 30 May, 1830. Elizabeth was born about 1810 in Ky and died in 1880, Jamestown, Ark. William died 1874, Ark. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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John George Killough: born in NC in 1802 and died in Madison, Ark. 1843 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Killough: Records from the Mormon Church and from Cabarrus County, NC show that Thomas Killough, born 1802 in Cabarrus County, NC and married Margaret Hamilton on November 10, 1819. Margaret was born Abt 1798 in Cabarrus County. Thomas died in 1875. Records reviewed by Steven Killough of Pennsylvania indicate that Thomas and Margaret had two children, John W. Killough and William Jackson Killough. George Killough remembers his father telling him that Thomas Killough was his great-grandfather. Therefore this resulted in the following: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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John W. Killough: b.
1830 There are
records in Mecklenburg County, NC of two marriages for John W. Killough. J. W. Killough and Mary C. Solomon on Aug. 5, 1851. They had
two children: Susan Killough, (b.1852 in NC), Martha Ann
Killough (b. 1855) A picture of Martha has been contributed by Dave
Dennis of Greensboro, NC ( Martha Ann Killough's great grandson) |
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| William J. Killough
married Mary Wallace on Oct. 25, 1856 in Mecklenburg Co., NC Both John and William, with their families went from Mooresville, NC about the year 1866, to Arkansas traveling in covered wagons. William J. Killough and his wife Mary are believed to have died in Arkansas from chills and fevers about 1871. The children were brought back from Arkansas and placed under the guardianship of Jesse B. Johnson. (Appointed guardian Jan. 29, 1872, Mecklenburg Co., NC of John W. Killough and W.W. Killough, orphan children of Wm, & Mary Killough, deceased). He also received letters of administration for the estate of Mary Killough, deceased, May 28, 1874. The children lived with the Johnson's until they were old enough to be on their own. ( the above information was obtained from: The Killough Family of America, Canada. and Ireland - compiled by Mrs. J. A. Killough, Washington, Illinois) |
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| The following information was obtained from George Gordon, son of Molly Killough (Gordon), in 1979. | |||||||||||||||||||
| When William Jackson and Mary Wallace died in Arkansas they left a family of three children, one girl and two boys. Mary (Magdeline?) Killough, John Walter Killough, and William Wallace Killough. The girl was known to me as Aunt May. Aunt May stayed with the Wallaces until she married Mr. Alexander and moved to Lowell (Gaston Co., NC. They worked in the Lowell Cotton Mill when I was there about 1908. We rode from Charlotte to Lowell on an electric train engineered by my great uncle Ilmer Williams. The only one of her children I remember was Burett(?) Alexander who I saw about four years later driving a kerosene delivery wagon for Standard Oil Co. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Children: Mary (Magdeline?) Killough John Walter Killough (5/10/1858 - 1/22/1916) William (Washington or Wallace) Killough 10/31/1862 - 11/20/1918 |
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