* just east of the "Museum and Ranger Station" near the south entrance
to Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Wm R. Killian's wife's family,
HUGHES, have a family cemetery hidden somewhere in the Ravensford area,
maybe or maybe not the "cem" shown on the north side of Raven Fork
(River?). (see attached jpg) There are no Killian headstones there, but
some unmarked stones. I was looking for the grave of WRK's mother in
this area. I suppose WRK's mother's grave could be one of those
unmarked ones in the Hughes cemetery.
Irving College, TN:
midway between Chattanooga & Nashville - look 30 miles
NE of Manchester, to McMinnville, then about 8 miles SSE to Irving
College. It is little more than a cross-roads with a gas station today,
and school buildings used by other-than-a-college; no college there for
years. Researchers in McMinnville tell me that cemetery censuses have
found no headstones bearing the name of Wm R Killian; in fact I found no
headstones going back as far as 1860, even in the oldest cemeteries I
searched. But, there are many Killian headstones in this area, said to
be descendants of Susan or Susannah Killian, her husband unknown;
daughter of Daniel Killian & Mary Bost. I don't have the parental
connections for this Daniel in my data - it may be uncertain in
everybody's data; I couldn't clarify this any using online data in
George W. Killian & Wm Hinds genealogies.
I have found no link between my Killian and any of those in this area;
no family stories mention kin in other than North Carolina. It appears
on the surface that WRK was simply traveling through enroute to Missouri
when he was taken ill and died, likely of typhoid fever.
I will eventually set up a web page, but have no immediate plans.
Re my entry (#18) on your web site- I wonder if you intended to leave in
the old parenthetical statement that includes the erroneous "moved 1833
to Webster Co.MO"? I believe that entire statement should be deleted
now.
Mac Hayes
