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From: "Karen Campbell" <>
Subject: Re: a Ohio Kilian query
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:10:52 -0500


James,
Thanks for explaining. The reason I wanted you to explain is that I am new
to the listserv and thought maybe I had missed out on some previous
information about the llion spelling. To the best of my knowledge, and
according to my mother's stories of her father's explanations. It was
David E. (Indiana) who started spelling it llion. But his father Frederick
must have assumed the llion as well. Frederick was Leonard's grandson thru
Mathias, who to the best of my knowledge both (Leonard & Mathias) spelled
it llian.

Thanks again, just wanted to make sure I had not missed anything.
Karen Newberry Campbell

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> From: James W. Green III <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: a Ohio Kilian query
> Date: Monday, July 28, 1997 3:54 AM
>
> On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 22:00:46 -0500 "Karen Campbell"
> <> writes:
>
> >----------
> >> From: James W. Green III <>
> >> To:
> >> Cc:
> >> Subject: a Ohio Kilian query
> >> Date: Sunday, July 27, 1997 5:26 PM
> >>
> >> By the way, I suspect that a one "L" Killian would be a recent
> >> German immigrant. Many of us descend from Andreas Kilian b.
> >> 1702 who arrived in Philadelphia in 1732 signing the oaths
> >> with one "L". His descendants use Killian (& Killion?).
> >
> > James, could you explain what you mean by the Killion in parenthesis
> >and then a question mark?
> >Thanks,
> >Karen Newberry Campbell
>
> Well, sitting in the Carolinas & not paying too good of attention
> as to who is using Killion but getting the idea over the years that
> it is those in Indiana that use Killion & many of them once claiming
> descent from Leonard (son of Andreas) but now claiming to be of
> Celtic origin, I used the "?" to indicate I was not sure if any of
> Andreas' descendants use the Killion spelling. But you are about to
> tell me, right? <grin> <LOL>
>
> Reflecting, I seemed to remember it is spelled Killion in Andreas
> will. Checking the web pages, I see it is spelled Killion by who
> ever wrote the will but signed by Andreas as Kilian (to the best of
> my ability to read it). So if Killion was an accepted spelling in
> Lincoln Co NC in 1788, maybe some of Andreas' descendants did use
> it & I should not have put the "?". You all keep me straight.
>
> According to Wilfong's book, Leonard's tombstone spells it Killian.
> I guess I forgot about the spelling in Andreas' will. What other
> examples of spelling the name Killion do we have in old Lincoln Co
> NC? Is it on any patents that way?
> --
> James W. Green III / Rt.5, Box 720 / Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA
> home:803-635-9236 http://www.Genealogy.Org/~green
> http://www.GeoCities.Com/Heartland/938

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