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Heallon Mercia <I>Beachum</I> King

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Heallon Mercia Beachum King

Birth
Anson County, North Carolina, USA
Death
2 May 1930 (aged 56)
Anson County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Peachland, Anson County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Heallon Mercia Beachum was the eleventh of fourteen children born to Jeremiah Washington Beachum (1830-1910) and his first wife Mary Jane Taylor (1836-1882). She grew up on her father's farm, where he also had a store and a cotton gin, and later the first telephone exchange in that part of the country. The Beachums and Taylors were both old Virginia families that had come to North Carolina in the 1700s.

Heallon married James Martin King (1866-1946), who was a first cousin of Dulin Benson Stearns (1863-1962), who had married her (Heallon's) sister, Mary Jane Beachum (1867-1910). They were married around 1891, approximately the same time that D. B. and Mary Jane Beachum Stearns moved to the city of Charlotte. (D. B. and Mary Jane were the writer's great grandparents.) Heallon and J. Martin King lived for a time in Union County, but later came back to Anson.

Their children were: Mary Jane King (25 March 1892-1 March 1923, Mrs. Dan B. Howell), Ernest King (29 Oct. 1894-18 Nov. 1960, m. Virgie Greene, living in Monroe with 3 children, Clyde, Floyd and Dorothy, in 1920, died in Charlotte, bur. Sharon Memorial Park), Bertha Lenore King (20 Nov. 1896-22 Dec. 1918, Mrs. R. Ernest Davis, died of influenza, buried at Deep Springs), Fannie Viola King (1 Feb.1900-3 Feb. 1918, m. A. Z. High, died as result of a miscarriage, bur. with infant son at Deep Springs.).

Heallon died of pneumonia at the age of 56, though her death certificate says she was 54. She would have been a member of the Hopewell Methodist Church growing up; but, apparently she, and some of her sisters, belonged to the Deep Bprings Baptist Church.

Many thanks to Denise Austin Creech for the tombstone photo.
Heallon Mercia Beachum was the eleventh of fourteen children born to Jeremiah Washington Beachum (1830-1910) and his first wife Mary Jane Taylor (1836-1882). She grew up on her father's farm, where he also had a store and a cotton gin, and later the first telephone exchange in that part of the country. The Beachums and Taylors were both old Virginia families that had come to North Carolina in the 1700s.

Heallon married James Martin King (1866-1946), who was a first cousin of Dulin Benson Stearns (1863-1962), who had married her (Heallon's) sister, Mary Jane Beachum (1867-1910). They were married around 1891, approximately the same time that D. B. and Mary Jane Beachum Stearns moved to the city of Charlotte. (D. B. and Mary Jane were the writer's great grandparents.) Heallon and J. Martin King lived for a time in Union County, but later came back to Anson.

Their children were: Mary Jane King (25 March 1892-1 March 1923, Mrs. Dan B. Howell), Ernest King (29 Oct. 1894-18 Nov. 1960, m. Virgie Greene, living in Monroe with 3 children, Clyde, Floyd and Dorothy, in 1920, died in Charlotte, bur. Sharon Memorial Park), Bertha Lenore King (20 Nov. 1896-22 Dec. 1918, Mrs. R. Ernest Davis, died of influenza, buried at Deep Springs), Fannie Viola King (1 Feb.1900-3 Feb. 1918, m. A. Z. High, died as result of a miscarriage, bur. with infant son at Deep Springs.).

Heallon died of pneumonia at the age of 56, though her death certificate says she was 54. She would have been a member of the Hopewell Methodist Church growing up; but, apparently she, and some of her sisters, belonged to the Deep Bprings Baptist Church.

Many thanks to Denise Austin Creech for the tombstone photo.

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