Alanson, son of Robert King and Bridget Morgan, married Emeline "Amelia" Bishop in Charleston, Portage County, Ohio on November 24, 1830. They were the parents of twelve known children: Robert D., Wallace Bishop, Charles, Philo Luther, Mary Elizabeth, Annie Maria, Russell L., Lucy M., Maria, Tillan, Dora Adelaide, and Julia Adell King.
Obituary:
Mr. A. K. King, an old and respected pioneer of Tuscola County, died in Kingston – the town was named after him – on the 4th of September, 1878, aged sixty-eight.
He located there in 1857, and with his faithful wife endured all the privation and hardships to which the early settlers were exposed. He at one time carried the mail from Vassar to Port Sanilac. Much of the road over which he traveled was only a trail. This was an exceedingly difficult, as well as dangerous, undertaking at that early day. His family were supported principally by what he could bring from Vassar and Wahjamega on his back.
While he was exposed to danger from storms, wild beasts and water, for streams and swampy places had to be forded, sometimes the water reaching to the waist, his wife (who preceded him in death by nearly two years), was left to protect and care for the family. All the neighbors she had for the first five months after moving to Kingston were the Indians - never seeing the face of a white woman for that length of time.
He leaves a family of seven, all married and settled in comfortable homes.
(Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Vol. 2, 1877-1878.)
Obituary:
Mr. A. K. King, an old and respected pioneer of Tuscola County, died in Kingston – the town was named after him – on the 4th of September, 1878, aged sixty-eight.
He located there in 1857, and with his faithful wife endured all the privation and hardships to which the early settlers were exposed. He at one time carried the mail from Vassar to Port Sanilac. Much of the road over which he traveled was only a trail. This was an exceedingly difficult, as well as dangerous, undertaking at that early day. His family were supported principally by what he could bring from Vassar and Wahjamega on his back.
While he was exposed to danger from storms, wild beasts and water, for streams and swampy places had to be forded, sometimes the water reaching to the waist, his wife (who preceded him in death by nearly two years), was left to protect and care for the family. All the neighbors she had for the first five months after moving to Kingston were the Indians - never seeing the face of a white woman for that length of time.
He leaves a family of seven, all married and settled in comfortable homes.
(Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Vol. 2, 1877-1878.)
Alanson, son of Robert King and Bridget Morgan, married Emeline "Amelia" Bishop in Charleston, Portage County, Ohio on November 24, 1830. They were the parents of twelve known children: Robert D., Wallace Bishop, Charles, Philo Luther, Mary Elizabeth, Annie Maria, Russell L., Lucy M., Maria, Tillan, Dora Adelaide, and Julia Adell King.
Obituary:
Mr. A. K. King, an old and respected pioneer of Tuscola County, died in Kingston – the town was named after him – on the 4th of September, 1878, aged sixty-eight.
He located there in 1857, and with his faithful wife endured all the privation and hardships to which the early settlers were exposed. He at one time carried the mail from Vassar to Port Sanilac. Much of the road over which he traveled was only a trail. This was an exceedingly difficult, as well as dangerous, undertaking at that early day. His family were supported principally by what he could bring from Vassar and Wahjamega on his back.
While he was exposed to danger from storms, wild beasts and water, for streams and swampy places had to be forded, sometimes the water reaching to the waist, his wife (who preceded him in death by nearly two years), was left to protect and care for the family. All the neighbors she had for the first five months after moving to Kingston were the Indians - never seeing the face of a white woman for that length of time.
He leaves a family of seven, all married and settled in comfortable homes.
(Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Vol. 2, 1877-1878.)
Obituary:
Mr. A. K. King, an old and respected pioneer of Tuscola County, died in Kingston – the town was named after him – on the 4th of September, 1878, aged sixty-eight.
He located there in 1857, and with his faithful wife endured all the privation and hardships to which the early settlers were exposed. He at one time carried the mail from Vassar to Port Sanilac. Much of the road over which he traveled was only a trail. This was an exceedingly difficult, as well as dangerous, undertaking at that early day. His family were supported principally by what he could bring from Vassar and Wahjamega on his back.
While he was exposed to danger from storms, wild beasts and water, for streams and swampy places had to be forded, sometimes the water reaching to the waist, his wife (who preceded him in death by nearly two years), was left to protect and care for the family. All the neighbors she had for the first five months after moving to Kingston were the Indians - never seeing the face of a white woman for that length of time.
He leaves a family of seven, all married and settled in comfortable homes.
(Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Vol. 2, 1877-1878.)
Gravesite Details
This headstone is cracked and is so badly weathered that it is difficullt to read.
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