Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== (clipping from unknown newspaper) GOODWIN KILLION was truly a father in Israel. He was born in South Carolina, Feb. 9, 1790, professed religion and joined the M. E. Church in 1821, was licensed to exhort in 1825, in the Blunt circuit, Alabama Conference; emigrated to Texas in 1837, and settled in Anderson county, in those troublesome days of Indian hostilities. He and his brother were pursued by a party of those savage men, and he was shot, and supposed by them to be mortally wounded, and they made an effort to capture his fine saddle- horse. By this effort he saved his scalp, and the horse took care of itself; so he was delivered from his wicked pursuers. For years, in class and love- feast, he would refer touchingly to his "great de- liverance." The afflictions of the righteous are many. He had his thorn in the flesh - an eating cancer in the face, for fourteen years. But with the most perfect Christian resignation he bore his afflictions, and held on to his integrity, looking to that inheritance where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. A. W. Good*ion Palestine, Texas, Feb. 14, 1860 ===============================================================================