MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - William M. Killgore
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WILLIAM M. KILLGORE is a son of Thomas KILLGORE, who was a native of Cocke
County, Tenn., and there married Jane COOPER, who was born in the same
place, and became the mother of five children. The father was a farmer
until late in life, and then kept a hotel for some time.
About 1846 the mother died, and he afterward married Julia SMITH, who bore
him five children. Her death occurred in 1883. Previous to the war he was a
Whig. He is now a Republican, and is seventy-eight years of age. William M.
KILLGORE was born in Cocke County, December 19 1839, and was pursuing his
studies at the breaking out of the war. In  1861 he volunteered in Company
C, Thirty-first Tennessee Infantry, and during four years of service was in
many hard-fought battles, but received only one slight wound. After the
siege of Knoxville his regiment was mounted. In 1865 he came to Marshall
County, where he has since resided and farmed. Penelope J. BLACKBURN became
his wife in 1867 and died in  1874, leaving two sons. In 1877 he married
Woodly FAIN, and to them were born five children. Both MR. and Mrs.
KILLGORE are members of the
Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is a Democrat.

Surnames: Blackburn, Cooper, Fain, Killgore, Smith
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."