Echoes From The Attic and Poems, GREENWOOD, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Jan. 2001
Typed by Belford Carver
Written by by Edna F. Campbell
Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell
With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works.

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GREENWOOD

Marking the grounds obtained through a Spanish Grant of Land, in 1803, is the Killian 
Home, seven miles west of Amite.

Mrs. Clara Killian Hogan, a retired public school teacher claims this ancestral 
heritage as her lifetime home.  She has said that George Killian, her great-great-
grandfather, came to St. Helena Parish, from Adams County, Miss., where he had 
received a Spanish land grant consisting of 900 arpents on St. Catherin Creek in 
Natchez, in 1789.  Since Spain was giving much larger grants here in Spanish West 
Florida, which is now the Florida Parishes, Killian then came to this section and 
staked this claim, which bordered on the Tickfaw River.

This was about the time of the Louisiana Purchase.  Spain contended that West 
Florida was not a part of the United States.  This was during the reign of King 
Charles IV.  In 1810 the West Florida Rebellion broke out against Spain.  The people 
drove the Spanish government out and set up the little West Florida Republic, which 
lasted 88 days.  It was later annexed by the United States.  However, Spain never 
gave up the claim until 1819, when they signed the treaty.

The original land grant comprised 3,000 acres.  Of this land owned by Mrs. Hogan, 203
acres remain.  The old family residence was built in 1889 by Mrs. Hoganís father, D. 
Saunders Killian, prior to his marriage to her mother, the former, Mary Starnes.  The 
original structure has retained its same build throughout the years, with the 
exception of the front gallery being glassed in to form a sun-porch.

Mrs. Hogan has named the place, "Greenwood".  She has given a reason for this choice.
She had preferred the name "Killarney", since Killian was an Irish name, but there 
was another Amite area home bearing that same name.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, III, 1968, by Edna Campbell)

(Pic Greenwood)