JAMES HENRY KING

   James Henry King died Thursday, February 9, 1922, at his home in the East
suburbs of this city.  The funeral was held Saturday at the Presbyterian
church.  Rev. George R. Scroggs, his pastor, delivered the sermon.

   The deceased was born on the King homestead in Post Oak township,
September 30, 1846.  He was a son of Richard M. King and Elizabeth Jane
Stewart King.  The mother died when he was a very small boy, leaving the
father and five children.  The father married again and all remained on the
farm until the breaking out of the Civil War.  The father, who was a Union
sympathizer was ambushed and killed by the Confederates.  After the death of
his father the stepmother kept the five children together, giving them the
same care and attention she would her own.  She continued to reside with her
foster son, the subject of this sketch, until her death some ten or twelve
years ago at the age of eighty-nine years.

   Although a mere boy during the Civil War he was unable to remain at home.
During the latter part of the war he enlisted in the Union army under Captain
Lee Duncan, of Kingsville, serving until the company was mustered out of
service in 1865.  He returned home to begin anew the farming operations
abandoned by war necessity.

   March 4, 1869, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Day, the daughter of
a prominent farmer living in the same neighborhood. To this union six
daughters came to bless this home, all of whom are living.  Mrs. Charles J.
Taggart and Mrs. Calvin Taggart of Texhoma, Oklahoma, Mrs. Hayes Lewis, of
Missoula, Montana; Mrs. Albert Mueller, Bosworth, Missouri, Mrs. W. A. Meek
and Miss Irene King, of this city.

   Soon after he returned from the army he united with Cumberland
Presbyterian church near Cornelia.  He served as an elder in the church for
a period of fifty years.  At the union of the churches he united with the
Presbyterian church.  His entire life has been spent in Post Oak, Chilhowee
and Madison townships.  He farmed all his life until he removed to Holden
eight years ago.  His family has been prominent in church affairs for more
than 100 years, both in Missouri and Tennessee.  The deceased was the
grandson of Rev. Samuel King, who, with Rev. Finis Ewing and Samuel McAdow
founded the Cumberland Presbyterian church near Dickson, Tennessee, February
4, 1810, or 1812.  The grandfather was active in the ministry in Tennessee
for several years removing to Clay County, Missouri, in 1828, and to Johnson
County in 1833 where he founded Shiloh church above referred to where his
grandson found Christ.  He, with Rev. Robert D. Morrow, who came to Missouri
in 1819 from Randallville, Kentucky, were the torch bearers of the
Cumberland faith in Western Missouri.  The grandfather passed away in 1842.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Presbytery erected a shaft to his memory over his
grave at Shiloh Cemetery.  An uncle was also an early day minister of that
faith in South Missouri and Arkansas, finally locating in Texas, where he
died many years ago.  A brother of the deceased, Rev. Samuel Finis King, was
prominent in the Cumberland Presbyterian ministry for a long period of time.

   The father, Richard M. King, was prominently identified with the
development of this county from the time of his arrival in 1833 until he was
murdered May 2, 1864.  During the 1850s he served as a member of the county
court and in other official capacities.

   It has been the privilege of the writer to know the deceased for a
lifetime and we can testify to his true Christian spirit.  His Christianity
was of the pure and simple kind.  He was as good a Christian on any day as
Sunday, and he lived and died without an enemy.  Besides the children above
named, he is survived by his widow and one sister, Mrs. John B. Cull of
Cornelia.

   Truly a good citizen has gone to his reward and his family has suffered
an irreparable loss.