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(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
       
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