Biographical Sketch of Allen Kilburn, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Allen Kilburn is one of the earliest settlers of Union township, 
Webster county, Mo.  He is a native of Jackson county, Ga., and was
born February 1, 1808, the third in a family of eleven children born 
to Daniel and Nancy (Watkins) Kilburn, the former born in South Caro-
lina and the latter in Virginia.  The parents were married in Georgia
where they lived until our subject was about eight years of age, when
they moved to Williamson county, Tenn.; four years later they went to
Lawrence county, Tenn., where the mother died in 1857.  Mr. Kilburn 
subsequently moved to Hardin county, Tenn., where he died in 1866, at
the age of eighty-five years.  Both were members of the Baptist church.
Daniel Kilburn was a farmer all his life, and served in the War of 
1812.  But one child besides our subject survives, who is Martha, the 
wife of William A. Davis, a farmer near Booneville, Miss.  When young,
Allen Kilburn started in life for himself as a farmer with limited
means, but industry and good management have won for him success, and
he now owns a well improved farm in Webster county, after having given
his children a start in life.  When nineteen years of age he married
Millie Watkins, who was born in Williamson county, Tenn., July 8, 1811
and was a daughter of Pleasant Watkins.  Sixteen children were born to
this union, six of whom are still living, three sons and three daugh-
ters, viz.:  William P. (a farmer of Webster county, Mo.); James J.
(a farmer and miller of Webster county); Joel N. (a farmer of Chautan-
qua county, Kansas); Nancy Lee ( wife of George A. Brown, a prominent
farmer of Webster county, Mo.); Mary Jane (who married J. D. Whitten-
burg, a farmer and stock dealer of Webster county); and Eliza Dickard
(who married William Dickard, deceased) is now living in Taney county,
Mo.  After their marriage our subject and wife lived in Maury county,
Tenn., for two years, and then moved to Lawrence county, Tenn., where,
with the exception of one year spent in Calloway county, Ky., they 
lived until 1854; in the latter year they removed to the present loca-
tion in Webster county, Mo., then known as Wright county.  Mrs. Kilburn
died January 6, 1888, having been a member of the Christian church for
thirty-five years.  While in Tennessee Mr. Kilburn served seven years
as justice of the peace, and after removing to Missouri he held the 
same office in Union township, Webster county, eighteen years.  He has
been a member of the Christian church since 1849, and has served as 
deacon.  He is a Republican in politics, and is one of the most enter-
prising of Webster county's residents.  He takes an active interest in
the educational and religious enterprises of the community, and is
highly respected by many friends and acquaintances.

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