ANNOUNCEMENTS
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2011 Killough Reunion Information
It is time again for the Killough Family Reunion!
The Killoughs will once again descend on Jacksonville, Texas
the weekend of
June 11 & 12, 2011
Reservations can be made at any hotel, but we suggest these:
1) Best Western Executive Inn, 1659 S Jackson St, Jacksonville, Texas (903)
586-0007
2) LaQuinta Inn and Suites, 1902 S Jackson St, Jacksonville, Texas (903)
586-6504
3) Home Place Inn & Suites (formerly America’s Best Value Inn) 1407 E Rusk
St, Jacksonville, Texas (903) 586-9841
Registration will open on Saturday morning at 8:30 in the conference room of
the Iron Moon Barbecue and Grill, formerly the Hot Biscuit. Pictures and
other documents will be available for you to browse through, and old and new
family can visit. If you have any memorabilia to share, please bring it!
Raffle tickets will be sold at registration, $1.00 each, or 6 tickets for
$5.00. Killough Family Reunion T-shirts will be available for purchase.
The Killough Massacre, by Jack Moore, will be available for purchase at $5.00
each. The restaurant will NOT be open, so please be aware that you will have
to go elsewhere for meals. There will be an Executive Board meeting at
11:30, and a general meeting at 2:00 PM. At this time we will have the
Baking Contest judging, so be sure to bring your favorite homemade baked
goods for this competition. You could win a prize!! The
Dinner Banquet will
be at Rob Sadler’s Restaurant at The Landmark, 402 E Rusk (in the old post
office at the corner of TX 69 & TX 79, at 5:00 PM. Prizes for the Baking
Contest, Raffle, and Door Prizes will be presented. Dinner will begin at
6:00 PM, and will be served Buffet style. The entree choices available will
be pot roast and grilled chicken, with a selection of vegetables, salad,
dinner rolls, and desserts (sugar-free available). Cost of the Dinner
Banquet will be $15.00 for children and $ 20.00 for adults. Tea, coffee,
water and sodas are included. There will be a cash bar available for those
who may choose an alcoholic beverage. Please RSVP so we can let the
restaurant know how many will be eating.
Sunday Morning at 9:00 we will gather at the Iron Moon conference room to
hear the story of the Killough Massacre, followed by a procession to the
Monument. We will begin lining up for the procession at 10:00.
The Tomato Festival is also occurring that weekend, so make your room
reservations now!
Don’t forget your dues, especially if you are not going to be attending.
Dues are still $10.00 per year per family, and those dues are needed the
years that we don’t have a Reunion! These dues help support things like
supplies and postage for…….Newsletters!
History of the Texas Killough Reunion
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10/26/10 - From Reunion President, Floyd Ross:
Finally was able to make a few contacts at the Cherokee County Probation Department and they sent a crew out to the monument and did a great JOB CLEANING UP. Hurray for Cherokee County..............
This is a special Thanks from the Killough Family to them.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
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8/18/10 - From Reunion President, Floyd Ross:
It was discovered when we arrived for our
Board Meeting on the 14th. The main marker had been pushed over again
and a grave had been partially dug up. I called the sheriff’s
department and they came out and did a report. We did find out that
the Cherokee County Sheriff’s dept is making regular runs out daily.
We had our regular board meeting and discussed the vandalism and of coarse
next years Reunion. It will be on June 11th. We will be sending
out further details about it soon.
Family dues is $10.00 per family. Money
should be sent to our treasurer, John Killough, 270 Piney Point,
Murchison, Tx. 75778. All money is used for the upkeep of the
monument.
 Main marker - 8/14/10 |
 Grave damage - 8/14/10 |
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44/1/10 - Killough Monument/Massacre Site Update - From John Henry Killough
Sorry to report the cemetery is hopeless, there is no way to stop the vandals short of a 24 hour heavily armed guard. The sheriff people are so far away they are no help. We tried to keep it nice for a while, but a favorite act of the vandals is to knock over the official state marker by the entrance. We repeatedly had it reset at some expense only to see it back on the ground. The special marker Jean Cannon had made for Nathaniel (her ancestor) since the original one embedded in the monument was no longer readable, has been stolen. The latest is the complete removal of the chain link fence surrounding the cemetery. The cost to replace the fence is way more than we have in the bank so there is nothing we can do. It is simply no use in driving over 100 miles round trip to keep it mowed and cleaned up when the vandals immediately descend on it to have their beer and drug parties so we give up. If anyone has a suggestion to help this please let us know.
John also sent an update for the Reunion Association Officers.
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Officers of the Killough Reunion Association
for the years
June 2009 to June 2011 are:
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President: Floyd "Nolan" Ross, 110 Alvis Ln., Waxahachie, TX 75165. Phone: 972-923-2335 fnross@flash.net |
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Vice President couple: Bill and Nancy McRae, 7810 Cornerstone Parkway, Dallas, TX 75225-1805. |
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Secretary:
Rachel Heitz |
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Treasurer: John & Liz Killough |
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| Historian: Linda Cannon Meadows & Teresa Cannon. (According to John Henry Killough, they were elected at the last business meeting. I (Ken Kalloch) don't have any contact information for them, and I do not know how this affects the "Killough Assistant Historians" listed below). | |
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KILLOUGH ASSISTANT HISTORIANS
For thirteen years (1989-2002), Zora (Killough) Cunningham, Historian for the Killough family that has been meeting in Jacksonville, TX, since 1954, worked with all the Killough records that were sent to her from families all over the United States, Canada and Ireland. She continued to hold the office of Historian until her death in 2005. But in October 2002, because of ill health and age related problems, she began the process of transferring most of the work to wonderful volunteer assistants. Today, these assistants continue collecting updates to the 1997 edition of the Killough Family book.
Please send your updates or first-time information for dates and places for births, dates and places for marriages, dates and places for deaths and burial, (obituaries are helpful) along with types of occupations and current cities of residence to one of the following Historian Assistants:
Covenanter branch of Ohio and Little Britain, PA, branch to Jim Killough, 5400 Walnut Ave. #810, Downers Grove, IL 60515, jimmiekilo3167@sbcglobal.net.
The Maine Branch is being collected by the Kallochs (Kalloch Reunion Association) so we do not collect them. Ken Kalloch, 11 Joffre St., Concord, NH 03301, kdk44@juno.com, is helping the Kalloch Reunion Association to collect this information, so please contact him about this branch.
Send information on the Ireland and Canada Branches to Ken Kalloch, 11 Joffre St., Concord, NH 03301, kdk44@juno.com. He also keeps our records on More Killoughs, Killough families whom we are unable to connect to any specific branch. If you don't know what branch you belong to, give him your data. He will see that it gets to the right place. (See note below).The North Carolina/Arkansas Branches and the Rhea Co., TN and Montgomery Co., AL branches go to Daniel T. Killough, 9380 E. Grapevine Spring Place, Tucson, AZ 85710, danielkillough@yahoo.com.
The Old South Branches of Rutherford Co., TN and Livingston Co., KY go to Floyd "Nolan" Ross, 110 Alvis Ln., Waxahachie, TX 75165, fnross@flash.net.
Please note, message from Ken Kalloch, 8/4/11: I am about a year behind with my Killough genealogy email correspondence, so if you write to me about corrections or additions to the Killough genealogy, please be patient.
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DIRECTIONS TO KILLOUGH MONUMENT
(From Floyd "Nolan" Ross 6/2/09)
- From the intersection of Highway 69 & Farm/Market (FM) Road
855 go west on FM 855 until you reach FM 3405. There is a sign there (or was at one time) that reads “Killough
Monument” and points to the left.
- Turn left on FM 3405 and go just about .4 miles to FM 3411.
- Turn right on FM 3411 and go .6 miles until you reach a road
with a green gate with a huge boulder on either side. That is actually FM 3431, but there is no sign there.
- Turn left and proceed through the gate – the monument and cemetery are at the end of the road.
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BIRTHDAY ANNOUNCEMENT! - (From Nance Killough Cunningham, daughter of Zora Killough Cunningham).
The association might like to know that Edna Mae Killough, wife of Roy Killough, cousin in John Allen Killough, will be celebrating her 90th birthday in Oklahoma City on December 2, 2007. Her actual birthday is December 12. Roy and John Allen were very instrumental in the founding of the Killough Reunion Association at Jacksonville, Texas. Edna Mae attended the reunion for many years. She has always been so proud and happy to be welcome in the Killough family.
Edna Mae's address is 837 N.W. 49th Street, Oklahoma City OK 73118.
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9/15/05 - It is with sadness that I write of the passing of Zora Louise (Killough) Cunningham yesterday at the age of 80. Her daughter Nance writes: "after a long and happy life, and a pretty difficult and heroic struggle with a variety of medical problems, especially these last few months, Mom died peacefully on September 14 about 2:30 in the afternoon. Family was close to her bed constantly for several days." In Memoriam (Zora's obituary).
8/3/05 - From Floyd "Nolan" Ross - The reunion was a hit and we all had a great time. We had the best dessert contest, youngest and oldest person attending, Silent auction, and regular gathering at the monument. There were about 150 people that attended from as faraway as Alaska and Ireland. Within the USA it was Southern California, Utah, Las Vegas and New York.
6/14/05 - Floyd "Nolan" Ross, writes: "put me on the Web site for the Old south Branch, we are still looking for a permanent replacement. Let me know if you hear of any volunteers. I will be sending you a letter to post on how the [50th Killough] reunion went... Also The current news on Zora is that hospice is with her and she is coherent about 3 hours a day. Please continue to pray for her and her family."
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The "2005 Killough Reunion Association Newsletter" is now online (opens in a new window, click close at the bottom of the page to return here).
Ken Kalloch has volunteered to take the job of Message Board Administrator on the "Killough Message Board" at RootsWeb (see http://killough.org/mb.htm for link). Ken is also Board Administrator for the "Kalloch Message Board".
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We would very much like HELP from other family members
to write News and Historical Articles and HELP with keeping track of the Killough Family History/Genealogy and with
Web Site Editing.
If you can HELP in any way, PLEASE contact: Webmaster Ken Kalloch, or one of
the other officers listed below.
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KILLOUGH FAMILY DATA ONLINE
Ken Kalloch (Ken's bio page), of Concord, NH has volunteered to help enter all our information from Zora's book into a genealogy program so that a Gedcom file and online database can be created.
If you know about any errors in your information that is in the book, or have new information to add, please let Ken know (email kdk44@juno.com) so that he can make the corrections in the database. This database is online at: Killough Family Database.
Please note,
message from Ken Kalloch, 8/4/11: I am about a year behind with my Killough
genealogy email correspondence, so if you write to me about corrections or
additions to the Killough genealogy, please be patient.
Ken is also helping the Kalloch Reunion Association to compile the
descendants of the Maine branch of our family, which is Chapter # 3 in the Killough book. This database is
online at: Kalloch Family Database. Both databases (Killough & Kalloch) can be accessed on this page:
http://kalloch.org/frame_database.htm
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DID YOU KNOW?
If you are driving south from Tyler,
TX, about 21 miles down Hwy 135, you will see this sign:
If you are driving southeast from Dallas on Hwy 175, when you are about 8 miles from Jacksonville, you will see a sign like this. It takes a few minutes longer to get to the Killough Monument from this point. There will be a large boulder at either side of the road where you turn in to get to the Monument.
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KILLOUGH MASSACRE CEMETERY SITE NEWS
March 23, 2005, Zora reports that the cemetery has not been vandalized since it has been being kept up so well. Right now it is clean and respectable looking in every way. The grass is just now greening up and some flowers will be showing up pretty soon. You will be proud of it.
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As of June 2004, we are happy to report that the cemetery and
surroundings look lovely. There has been only one incidence of minor vandalism there since last fall. When
repeated problems kept occurring last summer, John and Elizabeth (Liz) Killough of Murchison, TX, and Marlena and Carl
Phillips of Jacksonville volunteered to steadily repair and replace whatever had been damaged. The Phillips are
working in the Jacksonville school system and are very interested in taking care of their community.
The two couples spent many days out there using their own equipment and muscle power removing graffiti from the state
historical sign, the monument, and the gravestones. They haul away trash regularly.
A bad storm hit the area and knocked down a large sweet gum tree that was just outside the front fence. The tree
had to be cut up and hauled away and the fence repaired. The top railing along the back fence had to be replaced
and repaired from other damage. The railroad ties at the parking place were rotten and were replaced.
The grass and weeds behind, beside, and inside the cemetery have been kept trimmed. Cannas, iris, tulips, tiger
lilies, a redbud tree and crepe myrtle bushes have been planted along the front fence. They sprayed along the
edges for poison ivy and keep the fire ant hills sprayed.
Sometimes tourists come by and want to know the story of the place. John printed up handout copies of Uncle
Billie's story and a map that shows approximately where the Killough cabins were. They are surprised that a modern day
Killough would be there.
We owe these dear folks a big debt of gratitude. Their philosophy is that as long as the cemetery looks well
cared for and people are there often, it is less likely to be mistreated. They do not want to be paid for their
work or materials. However, we are going to insist they take money for their expenses.
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OTHER KILLOUGH/KALLOCH REUNIONS!
WHEN AND WHERE IS YOUR REUNION?
Any KILLOUGH Reunion group may publicize their meetings in this space in
the future. Send complete information to the webmaster: kdk44@juno.com or
Ken Kalloch, 11 Joffre St., Concord, NH 03301.
Send it as far in advance as possible. This is meant to be a means of inviting distant kin who would not
otherwise know about it. It is exciting to get acquainted with Killoughs and their descendants outside of your
own family.
Killough Family Reunion - N. Carolina/Arkansas Branch
Gary Burnett Killough of Indian Trail, NC, announced that on the 19th of September, 2010 they held their 42nd Annual Killough Reunion in Indian Trail, NC. For information about this reunion visit: http://killoughnc.org/reunion.htm
Kalloch Family Reunion - Maine BranchThe Kalloch branch (descendants of Finley Killough/Kelloch) of our family in Maine, will hold their 144th annual reunion on 8/20/11. For information about this reunion visit: http://kalloch.org/ (Then click 'Family Reunion Association' link at the left of the page).
Greetings from our Kalloch Relatives in Maine!!!
Kalloch family webmaster, Ken Kalloch (Ken is also our webmaster!)
& Kalloch family historian, Peter Richardson while preparing for their
2003 Kalloch Reunion, each put on one of our Reunion shirts, and
in the spirit of family unity, send us their greetings!!!
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MORE KILLOUGH FAMILY WEBSITES
Many of you computer literate folks out there have your own web sites. If you send the URLs to the editor, they will be listed in this site. Others in your big Killough family would probably enjoy seeing what you have. (Also, take a look at the "Killough-Killough Family WebRing" section below).
The first one I know about is that of Gary B. Killough of Indian Trail, NC, near Charlotte, NC. It’s a great site! www.killoughnc.org.
The next one is Mitch Fincher's site: http://www.fincher.org/Genealogy/Killough/."The Kalloch Family Home Page" http://kalloch.org/. Website of the Kalloch Reunion Association. This branch of the Killoughs go by the name "Kalloch" and are descended from Finley Killough (Kelloch), son of Robert Killough, born 1681 in County Antrim, Ire., and his wife Margaret Finley Killough.
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KILLOUGH-KALLOCH FAMILY WEBRING
The best place to view our other family sites is the Killough - Kalloch Family WebRing. Right now (as of 3/25/05) there are only 5 sites listed in this WebRing. If you have (or know of) a website that isn't a part of this WebRing, but should be, then PLEASE notify Ring Master, Ken Kalloch.
When visiting any of the sites in the WebRing, look for the blue WebRing logo (usually towards the bottom of each page), then click: "Next", "Previous" or "Random to go to any site in the Ring. To JOIN click: "Join Now"!
In a WebRing, similar sites are grouped together in rings and each site is linked to another by a simple navigation bar. Rings form a concentration of sites of a similar topic which allows visitors to quickly find other sites of possible interest, and form virtual communities based on the Ring topic. In this Ring, Killough and Kalloch (a branch of Killoughs) websites are connected to form a "virtual community" of our family's sites!
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KILLOUGH.ORG SITE IS BACK!!
Killough.org is officially back online as of March 29, 2003! Thanks to Floyd Nolan Ross for helping Zora to get the hosting and domain information taken care of and to Ken Kalloch for resurrecting the site.
The original Killough.org website went down offline sometime in 2001 and all the pages were consequently lost. What you see here was recreated by Ken Kalloch from archived pages stored in the Internet Archive. The original background color used on these pages was a bright yellow. The text font has been changed from "Times Roman" to "Georgia". Ken is continuing to work with Zora to add additional new information and improve the appearance of the site.
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