Killen Cemetery

Cemeteries: Killen Cemetery, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by: Grady L. McFarland, 379 Packton-Alex Rd, Winnfield, LA 71483
From: Records of Mr. Johnnie E. Moore (2/11/1906 to present) and census of cemetery markers.
Killen Cemetery -- also earlier known as Pleasant Hill Cemetery

This cemetery is located some 1.5 miles West of the US 167 railroad underpass near the junction of USFS Rd 520 (Zion Rd) and Wilder Rd. Cemetery is located on private property (old John D. Moore homestead) in the SE/4 of SW/4 of Sec 22 , T10N, R2W of Winn Parish. Property is owned by the George W. Moore family. It was used as a burial site for many of the original settlers of the Moore Community.

Cemetery is chain-link fenced. Last burial here was in 1983. There are open areas where old wooden markers have disappeared, or graves were never marked. Earliest birth date noted was 1827; earliest burial date noted was 1871.

Census by row of existing markers & headstones: ( 42 total)

Austin, Elsie A. Riggs
8/04/1939 - 10/27/1983
Row 2

Blackwell, Felix
1901 - 1971
Row 4
erected by daughter Mrs. Kate Lyons

Culp, John Henery
3/15/1917 - 5/13/1919
Row 5
-- Henerey as spelled on marker

Culp, Lue Proffer
1867 - 1952
Row 2
Mother

Culp, Tressie J.
12/17/1900 - 3/09/1986
Row 3
Double headstone for: Vodea C. Culp and Tressie J. Culp

Culp, Vodea C.
1/02/1895 - 5/21/1969
Row 3
Double headstone for: Vodea C. Culp and Tressie J. Culp

Culp, Weella
3/1920
Row 5
marker broken/pieces missing
death date ?

Davenport, Amos
9/08/1924 - 9/22/1980
Row 2

Davenport, Geneva Killen
3/12/1929
Row 2
only date

Guin, Infant son of M B & L G Guin
2/18/1889 - 2/18/1889
Row 3

Killen, E A
5/12/1867 - 10/28/1943
Row 5

Killen, Ella Mae
4/15/1903 - 5/09/1981
Row 2

Killen, Huey P.
5/05/1934 - 11/23/1937
Row 2
son of Mr/Mrs J. B. Killen

Killen, J P
1/18/1857 - 3/07/1940
Row 5

Killen, James Ivey
3/21/1893 - 3/18/1968
Row 2
Pvt-US Army- WW1

Killen, John B.
1884 - 1951
Row 2

Killen, Joseph
3/12/1929
Row 2
infant son of Mr/Mrs J B Killen

Killen, Margria
5/13/1883 - 12/07/1884
Row 5
dau of J P & E Killen

Killen, Maria R.
10/01/1880 - 5/05/1903
Row 4
dau of W M & S E Killen

Killen, Sarah Elizabeth
10/30/1836 - 11/04/1904
Row 3
wife of W M Killen

Killen, William
11/15/1827 - 7/15/1906
Row 3

Lambert, Mary J,
1/01/1850 - 2/15/1906
Row 2

Malone, James W.
5/09/1920 - 5/16/1983
Row 1

Melton, Dr. John M.
1835 - 1920
Row 5

Moore, Eliza Wilder
12/16/1875 - 8/15/1950
Row 6

Moore, Infant son of J D & Sarah Moore
Row 6

Moore, Infant son of J D & Sarah Moore
Row 6

Moore, Infant son of J D & Sarah Moore
Row 6

Moore, John D., Sr.
12/14/1853 - 12/09/1948
Row 6

Moore, Whit F.
5/03/1903 - 7/28/1925
Row 6
son of Eliza and John D. Moore

Moore, William L.
7/17/1917 - 5/21/1922
Row 6
son of Eliza and John D. Moore

Prince, Herschel
4/21/1929 - 3/05/1975
Row 1

Riggs, Hattie Bell
12/16/1882 - 2/03/1914
Row 2

Riggs, Infant daughter of Arch & Hattie Riggs
Row 2
no name or date

Riggs, Thurman J,
5/20/1913 - 11/15/l969
Row 2

Terral, John Wesley
1844 - 1929
Row 6
inscription " Uncle Wes "

Wiley, Annie
10/04/1888 - 2/03/1914
Row 2
wife of Arch Riggs

Row 2: Also one grave marked by broken stones & old azalea bush
Row 3: Unmarked concrete slab
Row 3: Unmarked concrete slab
Row 4: Pine board marker - blank
Row 4: Pine board marker - blank

Note: As per Mr. Moore, the above is not a complete census of all grave sites. Other existing shrubbery inside fence marks some graves with no stone markers. Many of the old pine board markers have rotted away.

Cemetery is also known as Pleasant Hill Cemetery ( original name ). USFS maps of Kisatchie National Forest denote it as Pleasant Hill.

There is also another old cemetery site just West of this location on an abandoned dirt road that pre-dates this site. Cemetery had pine knot markers that were destroyed by logging operations in the 1960's. There were never any named markers that the writer could find before area was torn up.