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Thomas Jackson Killebrew

(Sep 5, 1820 - Dec 20, 1914)

According to "Aunt Arkie", Thomas Jefferson Killebrew had been totall y deaf for many years preceding his death. He was a Primitive Baptis t in religion. "Jack" Killebrew brought his family to Arkansas in 185 4 from Weakley County, TN. He bought a farm in Carroll County , late r to be named Boone County when Carroll City divided . This was clos e to Lead Hill, AR. The neighborhood was still called Carrollton Holl ow where so many of the Tennessee relatives and friends settled, namel y, Walter and Phoebe Buckley, the Raley's, and the Parrishes. Buckley 's moved in 1854 and had a home near Jack and Paulina. Jack enliste d in the Confederate Army at Bellefonte, Arkansas, in Captain Ross Rub le's company, Colonel William Harrell's regiment. Some years after th e war ended he, with family, moved from the Carrollton Hollow home t o a farm on Crooked Creek, some miles east of Harrison, Arkansas. H e was living on this farm in 1880 with Pauline Ball. All children wer e married before this time, but Uncle "Jule" and wife, Cassandra Abel , lived near them. Lee has a stone and grist mill not far away, stil l on Crooked Creek. Nancy June and Uncle Kansas Monroe Davidson live d nearby. Lee's wife was Sarah Davidson, sister to Uncle K. Monroe. E ugenie married a very handsome Englishman named John Allan Stewart. Th ey lived near Jack and Paulina until they moved to Tahlequah, Oklahom a in 1897. Of their 5 children, 4 died tragic deaths when quite young . John Allan, Jr., was the only surviving child. Kansas "Kant" and w ife Nancy had 12 children. Lee had 10. Jim Killebrew fought in the M exican War and the Civil War. He was a "guerilla" on the Southern sid e. Aunt Arkie thinks he was a follower of Cantrell for a time. Afte r the war, no one seems to know what happened to him. Bill Killebre w went to Kentucky, owned a large plantation, and was the first man t o bring a herd of purebred cows to that state. He imported the bloode d shorthorns from Scotland . His daughter, Pauline Cox, kept in touc h with Grandma Carter. A lot of this information I obtained from writ ings of my Aunt Arkie, my dad's sister. Uncle Knox Cochran, Aunt Alme da's husband, was an officer in General Sterling Price's Cavalry and f ought in the Battle of Pea Ridge and Wilson Creek, Arkansas. The Conf ederate defeat in those battles secured Missouri for the Union forces . He never applied for a pension.

Events

Birth	Sep 5, 1820	Weakley, TN, USA
Birth	Sep 12, 1820	Weakley County, TN
Marriage	Jun 5, 1843	Weakley County, TN (Dresden) - Paulina Belle (100% Cherokee) Ridgeway
Marriage	Jun 5, 1843	Dresden, Weakley, TN, USA - Paulina Belle (100% Cherokee) Ridgeway
Residence	1850	District 5, Weakley, Tennessee
Residence	1860	Sugar Loaf, Carroll, Arkansas, United States
Residence	1870	Prairie, Boone, Arkansas, United States
Residence	1880	Blythe, Boone, Arkansas, United States
Residence	1900	Sugarloaf Township, Boone, Arkansas
Residence	1910	South Wichita, Lincoln, Oklahoma
Death	Dec 20, 1914	McLoud, OK (Buried in Foresee Cemetery-Boone County, AR)
Residence		Relation to Head of House: Father - USA
Burial		Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Lead Hill, Boone, AR, USA

Families

Spouse	Paulina Belle (100% Cherokee) Ridgeway (1826 - 1895)
Child	Emily Melvina Killebrew (1844 - 1926)
Child	Sophronia Ann (Aunt Frone) Killebrew (1847 - 1940)
Child	Almeda Isabel (Aunt Meedy) Killebrew (1849 - )
Child	Leonidas Benton (Lee) Killebrew (1852 - )
Child	Julius Pinckney Killebrew (1857 - )
Child	Robert Clinton Killebrew (1859 - 1863)
Child	Nancy June (Nan) Killebrew (1860 - )
Child	Lugennie Paralee Killebrew (1864 - 1969)
Child	Lilie A Killebrew (1870 - )

Father	Thomas Haynes Killebrew (1792 - 1839)
Mother	Ann Harrell (1790 - 1853)
Sibling	William Henry Killebrew (1818 - )

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