ROBERT KING was born in Copiah county, Miss., Dec. 23, 1843, his parents being John and Zerilda (Stewart) King. His father was born in Kentucky, and his mother in Mississippi. In 1847, his parents left the state in which he was born, and removed to Illinois, locating in Jersey county, under the bluff in Richwoods township. There Robert was reared, and there his parents resided, until their death. His father was engaged in farming, all his life. He died Feb. 14, 1862, and is buried in Campbell cemetery, as is also his wife, she having died in Jan., 1860. Robert, our subject, came to Greene county in 1867, and located in the now township of Woodville. He was married the same year, on the 7th of May, to Mary A. Clendenen, daughter of H. P. and Maria (Clark) Clendenen, who were among the pioneers of Greene county, he having come in 1819. A sketch of his life will appear elsewhere. Mr. and Mrs. King were the parents of seven children, five of whom are living - Morgan L., died in 1869, aged 14 months; Maria, Orson, Janie; Oscar, died in 1876, aged about 14 months; Frederick and Joseph. All the living children reside at home. Mr. King remained in this county until 1861, when he went to Saline county, Missouri, where he resided until March, 1885, when he moved back to Greene county, Illinois, where he now lives, on section 16. He has a farm of 80 acres here, and one of 160 acres in Missouri. On the 1st of May, 1861, though only 17 years of age, Robert enlisted in Co. E, 6th Mo. Inf., being mustered in at St. Louis. He was assigned to the command of General Grant, and his first service was at Pilot Knob. He was at Champion Hills; the siege and capture of Vicksburg; Jackson, Mississippi; Mission Ridge; then in the fighting from Chattanooga to Atlanta, participating in the battles of Dalton, Resaca, Lost Mountain, and Kenesaw Mountain. At the last named battle, he was wounded in the left leg, and lay in the hospital mostly from that time till the close of the war, but remained in the service, and was not discharged until the 17th of July, 1865. He was mustered out at New York city, and from there he returned to Jersey county. Although he was among the first in the service, and one of the last to leave it, he was never in the guard house during the entire period of his enlistment