Bio: John S. Killen, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===John S. Killen has been earnestly and successfully engaged in the occupation of planting 
for many years, and his earnest endeavors to make a success of life is well worthy the 
imitation of all.  He was born in Darlington District, S. C., February 5, 1826, his father, 
Hon. John Killen, being a native of Ireland.  In his childhood he came to the States with his 
parents, and in Darlington District, S. C., he grew up and learned the carpenter's trade.  
He was married in this State, to Miss Louisa Parrott, and with her removed to Georgia, in 1831,
settling on a farm in Houston County, but also worked some at his trade.  He was a soldier in 
the War of 1812, and for the services he rendered his country he received two land warrants, 
of eighty acres each.  The subject of this sketch located on one of these tracts, in Webster 
Parish.  Mr. Killen served as judge of Houston County for a number of years, and also served 
in the State Legislature for one or more terms.  He died in 1870, having been married three 
times, John S. Being by his second wife.  The latter grew to manhood in Houston County, and 
in the winter of 1848 came to Louisiana, and located in what is now Webster Par., Louisianawhere he 
purchased and opened up a farm of 200 acres near Minden, which land he tilled until 1886.  He 
then bought the property which he now owns, one mile west of Minden, and of the 700 acres of 
which he is the owner, he has 400 acres fenced and ready for the plow.  A part of this farm is 
some of the oldest improved land in the parish, and has been worked upward of sixty years, but 
is yet fertile.  He has a good residence, gin-house, wind-mill, and all his machinery for 
grinding feed, cutting wood, etc., is worked by wind power.  Although his fruit trees are quite 
young, that are in good bearing condition, and as he believes in having the best of everything, 
he is willing to work to bring about the desired result.  He has a herd of pure blooded, 
registered Holstein cattle, comprising a male animal, four cows and three calves.  He is one 
of the most progressive men of this region, and possesses sound views on all subjects.  Early 
in 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, Capt. Webb's company, Minden Rangers, and served 
until the final surrender.  He was married in this parish, October 4, 1849, to Mrs. Sarah A. L. 
Monzingo, daughter of Jules Monzingo.  She was born and reared in Houston County, Ga., and was 
a schoolmate of her husband when they were boys and girls.  The four children born to this union 
are as follows: Louisa P. (wife of Patton Culbertson), Martha E. (wife of William A. Turner), 
Ida N. (wife of William Stewart), and Laura A. (wife of Joel Hodges, of Louisiana).  They had 
four sons, but all are now deceased: John W. (who died at the age of fourteen years), Barsh 
(died at the age of eighteen months), Sampy (died about three years old), and William Mack 
(died in 1885, aged twelve years).  Mr. and Mrs. Killen are members of the Minden Baptist 
Church, and he is an active member of the Farmers' Union.