George Killian lived in Appalachia, in North Carolina.
George was born in 1740 in Pennsylvania, either Lancaster or Bucks County, and died in 1830 in Louisiana. He was married around 1767, possibly in what is now Catawba County, North Carolina.[1]
George received land grant of 300 acres of land on both side of Hunting Creek Burke Co.[2]
Pay voucher for George Kellion, 1 Ocober 1784, Morgan Township, Rowan County, North Carolina.[5]
Ed's original research also provided the following information:
George Killian held two British Crown Land Grants near Morganton, Burke Co., NC and served as a Captain of a Mounted Rifle Company in Joseph McDowell's Burke County Militia, seeing action at Cowpens, King's Mountain, Ramsour's Mill and Yorktown in the Revolutionary War.
George moved his family to Natchez in 1782-1783 by coming down the Mississippi River. In 1804, George and most of his family moved to St. Helena Ph., LA and achieved 4000 acres of Spanish Land Grants near Montpelier, St. Helena Ph., LA.
The Village of Killian, Livingston Parish, Louisiana is named after him. He was the owner of Killian's Ferry where most residents of the area had to bring their produce in order to ship it across the lake to New Orleans.[7]
Burial
George Killian's grave at Killian Methodist Chapel Cemetery, Hillsdale, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, has two tombstones:[7][8]
George Killum, Raiford's CO NC Militia, Revolutionary War, 1830[9]
↑ AKDHA has Joseph b about 1768, m Mary Ann Huges; I think these Find A Grave memorials may be for them: 45316876 and 45316879
↑ "North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-P74Y : accessed 9 September 2017), George Kellion, 01 Oct 1784; citing Morgan Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh.
↑ He's buried in the Killian Methodist Chapel Cemetery (see the caption for his Find a Grave picture)
↑ 7.07.1 Find a Grave memorial #15012769 for George Killian, added by S. Mack on July 22, 2006
↑ See also: USGenWeb, list of graves in Killian Chapel Methodist Church, Fifth Ward, St. Helena Parish, La. (now Cross Roads Baptist Church) prepared by Deandra Norred Pardue, from St. Helena Parish Cemeteries, 1914-1987, Published by the St. Helena Historical Association, Inc.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with George by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line.
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