I am searching as are many others, the parents and other information of Jesse Killian b. 1805. I have found many trees claiming different ones as his parents. Problem is the Jesse that was their child was a completely different Jesse (I have found proof disproving every one). Numerous Jesse's were born in a 10 year timespan in western North Carolina/eastern Tennessee before and after 1805. The Jesse's that were the children of all the named parent possibilities either stayed in North Carolina or moved to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Indiana or Illinois. Also my cousin has a DNA test dobe on our oldest paternal family member and came up as no match to any known Killian/Killion. Most, not all of the Killian lines somehow trace back to Andreas but not ours. I am looking for not only the parents and siblings of Jesse Sr. but to fill in some more recent gaps. Here is a list of dependency/timeline that I have, which is a direct line to me. Any help or if I can help you in your search would be greatly appreciated.

1. Jesse Killian b. 1805 Green Co TN (need documentation) My ancestor

Married Nancy L McKinney yr. unknown (need documentation)

1830 Census Bledsoe Co TN with family

1838 or 1839 Jesse B Killian Jr. was born. My ancestor (I have list of siblings and most birth/death info).

1840 Census Hamilton Co TN with family

1840, 1850 and 1860 Census shows William Killian, Elizabeth (Betsie) McKitty Killian and Family living close by, possibly a brother (some say was definitely a brother). Not sure of this but a good possibility.

1850 Census Hamilton Co TN with Black O'Neal. Both in jail for counterfeiting.

Somewhere in this time period he spent time for receiving a stolen horse (I can't find those records, need documentation).

1860 Census Shoal Creek Township, Johnson Co AR with family

1861 or 1862 appears to have enlisted in the Confederate Cavalry in the area he was living in AR(not positive this is him or another Jesse, need documentation).

Death??? No one knows. I see trees that show he died in 1862 or 1863 of wounds received at the battle of Pea Ridge but I can't find proof where he fought there, was wounded or died or where he is buried.

2. Jesse B Killian Jr. b. 1839 Hamilton Co TN My ancestor

1860 Census Shoal Creek Township, Johnson Co AR with spouse Sarah Killian and no children. This is a new finding and was not aware of this marriage before my g g grandmother. They were listed with Pleasant and Ruama Stewart and family. Was Sarah a sister to Pleasant or Ruama? What happened to Sarah? Did They have children? Did she die in childbirth?

1868 12/31 Jesse B Killian married Alice (Allie, Alley) Wolfe Osage Co MO

1869 12/27 John Henry Killion was born (notice the different spelling) My ancestor Allie died in childbirth and is buried in Dallas county Attebury Shed Cemetary (near Buffalo MO)

Sometime afterward Jesse married Louisa Ann Crider or Cridder Killian Murrell near I believe Mansfield in Wright Co MO where they had at least 1 child Garret Devise Killion in 1872

1873 5/18 Jesse Jr died of complications (probable infection) to an injection (smallpox vaccine) given to him while in the Union Army and appears to be buried in the Attebury Shed cemetery in Dallas Co MO. The original marker was not clear but was all accounts Jesse Jr. My father and his cousin put up the marker that is there now and I believe it has some incorrect information listed on the marker (I believe it was Sr. not Jr. (if either one) that served with the Cherokee mounted volunteers. Sr. served the Confederacy and all I find for Jr. is Union. He was discharged due to the injection and I found the Union paperwork describing that he and several others were either killed by or discharged as a result of the bad injection from the Union Army).

3. John Henry Killion b. 1869 12/27 Osage Co MO my ancester

1870 Census has him less than 1 yr. with grandmother Nancy McKinney Killian living in Carroll Twnsp. Texas Co Houston MO with what appears to be his aunt Mary Killion and a cousin John (Jr.?) 11 yr.

1880 has John Henry Killian listed as 10 yr. old nephew, living with John and Mary Killian and children in Van Buren Twnsp, Wight Co MO

1889 Nancy McKinney Killian died and is buried in Attebury Shed cemetery in Dallas Co MO.

Somewhere this timeframe John Henry Killion married Deniza Jane Evans Killion in Ozark Co MO.

1900 Census John Henry Killion and Deniza along with 3 of my great aunts are listed along with Thomas Dean age 7 in Bayou Twnsp. Ozark Co MO

1910 Census John Henry and Deniza shown with several of my great aunts and 1 uncle and a couple other Evans family members in Bayou Twnsp. Ozark Co MO

1920 Census John Henry and Deniza shown with several of my great aunts and uncles along with my grandfather Roy William Killian.