Notes for Samuel Blackburn "Black" Killough

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Notes for Samuel Blackburn "Black" Killough

She had three leagues (12,000 acres) of land in Texas. He moved to Old Franklin, Robertson Co., TX, in 1835 or 1839. He was a county judge, a county commissioner, a ranger in the Confederate Army with the rank of captain and represented Robertson,
Brazos and Milam Counties to the Third Constitutional Convention of Texas, November, 1875. He was a staunch advocate of the Homestead Law. She had three leagues (1200 acres) of land. 1850 census record shows a John L. Killough, farm laborer from TN,
living with this family. Ten ch., (six reached maturity): Mary, Josephus, Nancy, Sarah, Annette, George, Henry, Charles, Isaac, William.
(Revision from Ellen Lockwood 4/24/10: She had three leagues (over 12,000 acres) of land in Texas. He moved to Old Franklin, Robertson Co., TX, in 1835 or 1839. He was commissioned as a captain into the Militia of the Republic of Texas on August 1,
1844. This commission, signed by Sam Houston, is at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at UT, Austin. He was a county judge, a county commissioner, a ranger in the Confederate Army with the rank of captain and represented Robertson, Brazos
and Milam Counties at the Third Constitutional Convention of Texas, November, 1875. He was a staunch advocate of the Homestead Law. During the Civil War, he was captain of the Home Guards in Wheelock, called Wheelock Home Guards or Capt. Killough's
Company.)

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