Collin Co., - Obituaries - Mrs.Sarah Elizabeth Killian
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my great grandparent
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Killian Rites Held Sunday
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Killian, 27, succumbed Saturday, July 1st, at the
Jackson Street residence of her daughter, Mrs. Nettie Lingo.  Funeral
services were held Sunday at 3 p.m. from the First Methodist Church,
with the Rev. M.E. Wyatt, assisted by the Rev. Bill Howell, officiating.
Burial was in Prairie Grove cemetery.
     Pallbears were her grandsons, Billy Webb, Farmersville; Audie Murphy,
Hollywood, Calif; Paul Patterson, Ft. Worth; Earl Killian, San Angelo;
Dwain
and Weldon Killian, Ada, Oklahoma.
     Mrs. Killian, who had lived in and near Farmersville since 1888, was
born
in Hiawassee College, Tennessee March 6, 1863.  She was the daughter
of Curtis and Jane Gill, and was the widow of Jefferson Davis Killian, who
died in 1943. The couple were married in Tennessee on May 17, 1883 and
moved to Texas in 1888. Mrs. Killian had been a member of the
Prarie Grove Baptist Church for many years.
     Surviviors include eight daughters, Mrs. J.W. Patterson, Mrs. M.V.
Jackson,
Mrs. Jessie Webb, Mrs. Nettie Lingo, Farmersville; Mrs. J.A. Williams,
Garland;
Mrs. C.R. Myers, Tyler; Mrs. J.E. Gallimore, Augua Dulce; Mrs. C.H. Webb,
Ada,
Oklahoma; four sons, S.H. Killian and W.A. Killian, Farmersville, T.J.
Killian, Ada,
Oklahoma; and C.A. Killian, San Angelo; sixty-eight grandchildren,
eighty-six great grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren.
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Note:The newspaper obit says she was 27 but is should have been 87.