Category: Killian

Martha Jane Killian married James Phillips connecting the Killian branch to the Phillips branch of the family tree.

US Presidents in my Family Tree

Connie Kelly

December 27, 2025

Billings, Carroll, Griswold, Hatton, Hendricks, Holden, Hoots, Killian, Longwell, Noakes, Perry, Phillips, Radcliff, Richardson, Starr, Taylor, Thompson, Webster, Wishon, Woodruff

By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr…… Read more
Killian/Killion

Connie Kelly

March 31, 2025

Carroll, Killian, Phillips, Radcliff, Reynolds

Martha Jane Killion, our 3rd great grandmother was born in Indiana but moved with her family to Mclean County and at age 21 in 1874 married James Thompson Phillips, a Pennsylvania transplant who worked as a day laborer and later a farmer. Martha had 6 children, including our 2x grandfather, John William Phillips. She died…… Read more