Alfred Killen b 1835 NC d 13 Feb 1864 Floyd Co KY, age 29 years, in the Civil War; military service, Co F, 39th Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Union); s/o John Killen and Betsy Stock. Alfred Killen m. 4 Jul 1852 Ashe Co NC to Lucy Whitaker b about 1833 Ashe Co NC; d/o Peter Whitaker and Francis White. (1860 Wise Co VA Census). Children of Alfred "Alf" Killen and Lucy Whitaker;

I. Jennie Killen

II. Laura Killen

III. Nancy J Killen b 1852 NC; m. 20 Feb 1870 Wise Co VA to William K Gardner b 1844 NC; s/o Pentecost Gardner and Eustachia "Stacy" Unknown

IV. William Killen b 1853 NC

V. Margaret Killen b about 1856 (it's possible that this child is Morgan Killen b 1 Sept 1856 - listed as Margaret age 4 female in the 1860 Wise Co VA Census).

VI. Morgan Martin Killen b 1 Sept 1856 NC d 1 Jul 1925 Pike Co KY, shot to death by son, Alex Killen; m. Elizabeth Delana Bentley b 7 Jun 1861 VA; d/o James Vent Bentley and Anne Potter. Morgan Killen m. (2) to Mary Jane Belcher.

VII. Martha Killen b 1858 KY m. 10 Feb 1876 Wise Co VA to Noah Sowards b 1856 KY d 27 Oct 1889 Wise Co VA; s/o William Sowards and Rebecca Robinson.

VIII. Floyd Killen b 1860 VA

IX. Alfred Killen b Sept 1864 TN; m. 1896 to Maggie Unknown. Child of Alfred Killen and Maggie Unknown;

1. Lee Killen b Sept 1898 TN

Alfred "Alf" Killen in the Civil War:

Civil War Service: Co. F, 39th Regiment, Kentucky, USA. This story was given to EJ Sutherland Editor of Dickenson County Paper Oct. 10, 1932. I was with Captain Alf Killen in the Cranesnest fight. Captain Alf Killen was in charge of the Yankees in that battle. It was the first of the winter in the second or third year of the Civil War. My brother, Harmon Mullins, Joe Hibbitts, and Rich Hibbitts were there and members of the 39th kentucky Infantry. The Confederates had taken Keel Hibbitts and Hop Dotson prisoners. Chenaworth was in command of the Confederates. They came to the Ruebin Powers mill on Cranesnest and camped there. They were killing and destorying all the people's property around there. We were at my father's when word came to us about this and several of us left on Sunday morning and went to George Buchanan, who lived near Darwin, Virginia. Among those with us were Jim Mullins, Jack Mullins, Harmon Mullins, Eli Vanover, and George Buchanan that day. He had a handmill and ground us some mill and killed a small beef to feed us. Edd French and his sister Nan French were at Joe Stanley's and heard about us being on the way and some of them told the Confederates. They came to Buchanan's to catch us but we had left. It was at that time that they captured Keel Hibbitts and Hop Dotson. We planned to surprise the Confederates next morning. We laid out that night and got up there about daylight, but they got around us and shot into us from the other side. They killed eight of our party: Charlie Hibbitts, Bob Killen, Isac Bartley, Wesley Mullins, Henry Buchanan, Henry Yates, Parker Wheatley, Buck John Rose. Eli Vanover was shot through the arm and he was one man in the fight, I don't know who he was. He fell across the fire and burned up. Some of the Confederates were Rube McFall, Wes White, and John Mclemore. When the fight started, we just scattered and did not get back together for some time. We had about 75 or 80 Yankees, and the Confederates had more. That was the only Civil War battle fought in Dickenson County, Virginia. Captain Alf Killen was killed later on Big Mud Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky. Alf was shot and killed by the Confederates.