Claim: John Sidney Killen (February 5, 1826 – December 28, 1903), a native of Darlington County in northeastern South Carolina, fought in his late thirties with the Minden Rangers in the American Civil War.
Evidence: John Sidney Killen (February 5, 1826 – December 28, 1903) was a pioneer farmer and cattleman from Claiborne and Webster parishes in northwestern Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Claiborne Parish in 1871 during the term of the Reconstruction Governor Henry Clay Warmoth. A native of Darlington County in northeastern South Carolina, Killen came to Louisiana in 1849. In his late thirties, he fought with the Minden Rangers in the American Civil War.