"King" and his younger brother Richard, "Dixie." came to the west from Mississippi to try and recover from tuberculosis, which took several members of his family. His father was James T. Richard King, 1857 - 1891 and his mother was Bettie Lou Scallorn, 1867 - 1893.
He met and married my grandmother, Nancy Ellen Baker Grover in Silver City, NM, in 1916. He was a teamster and hauled ore by horse and wagon from the Cook's Peak area in NM to Deming, or Silver City, NM. He fathered Viola Betty King and Henry Lee King. Tuberculosis claimed Dixie in Silver City, NM in1916 and King in Phoenix, Arizona in 1925. He helped raise two step-daughters, Mary Daisy Grover and Mary Malinda Grover. My mother, Viola Betty, was only 6 when her father died, but she remembers sitting on his lap and speaking into an ear trumpet so her father could hear her. The family was destitute and the Knights of Pythias Cemetery Board paid for his burial. He was a good man and universally liked.
Funny story: King's wife, Nancy Ellen, wanted to learn how to drive a car so he taught her. Fifty years later, when Mary Daisy and Mary Malinda would tell this story, they would laugh so hard tears ran down their cheeks and they could barely gasp out the story. It seems Nancy Ellen backed the car up and ran straight into the shafts of a buggy. The shafts were the exact same distance apart as the two tail lights on the car. Smashed them both.
Arizona Republic pg. 11. Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday, January 20, 1925
George Henry King Funeral services for George Henry King, 37 years of age, who died Sunday, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the A. H. McLellan Chapel. Rev. D.J. Williams, pastor of the Free Methodist church, will conduct the services. Interment will be In Greenwood cemetery. Mr. King is survived by his widow, three daughters and a son.
He met and married my grandmother, Nancy Ellen Baker Grover in Silver City, NM, in 1916. He was a teamster and hauled ore by horse and wagon from the Cook's Peak area in NM to Deming, or Silver City, NM. He fathered Viola Betty King and Henry Lee King. Tuberculosis claimed Dixie in Silver City, NM in1916 and King in Phoenix, Arizona in 1925. He helped raise two step-daughters, Mary Daisy Grover and Mary Malinda Grover. My mother, Viola Betty, was only 6 when her father died, but she remembers sitting on his lap and speaking into an ear trumpet so her father could hear her. The family was destitute and the Knights of Pythias Cemetery Board paid for his burial. He was a good man and universally liked.
Funny story: King's wife, Nancy Ellen, wanted to learn how to drive a car so he taught her. Fifty years later, when Mary Daisy and Mary Malinda would tell this story, they would laugh so hard tears ran down their cheeks and they could barely gasp out the story. It seems Nancy Ellen backed the car up and ran straight into the shafts of a buggy. The shafts were the exact same distance apart as the two tail lights on the car. Smashed them both.
Arizona Republic pg. 11. Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday, January 20, 1925
George Henry King Funeral services for George Henry King, 37 years of age, who died Sunday, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the A. H. McLellan Chapel. Rev. D.J. Williams, pastor of the Free Methodist church, will conduct the services. Interment will be In Greenwood cemetery. Mr. King is survived by his widow, three daughters and a son.
"King" and his younger brother Richard, "Dixie." came to the west from Mississippi to try and recover from tuberculosis, which took several members of his family. His father was James T. Richard King, 1857 - 1891 and his mother was Bettie Lou Scallorn, 1867 - 1893.
He met and married my grandmother, Nancy Ellen Baker Grover in Silver City, NM, in 1916. He was a teamster and hauled ore by horse and wagon from the Cook's Peak area in NM to Deming, or Silver City, NM. He fathered Viola Betty King and Henry Lee King. Tuberculosis claimed Dixie in Silver City, NM in1916 and King in Phoenix, Arizona in 1925. He helped raise two step-daughters, Mary Daisy Grover and Mary Malinda Grover. My mother, Viola Betty, was only 6 when her father died, but she remembers sitting on his lap and speaking into an ear trumpet so her father could hear her. The family was destitute and the Knights of Pythias Cemetery Board paid for his burial. He was a good man and universally liked.
Funny story: King's wife, Nancy Ellen, wanted to learn how to drive a car so he taught her. Fifty years later, when Mary Daisy and Mary Malinda would tell this story, they would laugh so hard tears ran down their cheeks and they could barely gasp out the story. It seems Nancy Ellen backed the car up and ran straight into the shafts of a buggy. The shafts were the exact same distance apart as the two tail lights on the car. Smashed them both.
Arizona Republic pg. 11. Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday, January 20, 1925
George Henry King Funeral services for George Henry King, 37 years of age, who died Sunday, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the A. H. McLellan Chapel. Rev. D.J. Williams, pastor of the Free Methodist church, will conduct the services. Interment will be In Greenwood cemetery. Mr. King is survived by his widow, three daughters and a son.
He met and married my grandmother, Nancy Ellen Baker Grover in Silver City, NM, in 1916. He was a teamster and hauled ore by horse and wagon from the Cook's Peak area in NM to Deming, or Silver City, NM. He fathered Viola Betty King and Henry Lee King. Tuberculosis claimed Dixie in Silver City, NM in1916 and King in Phoenix, Arizona in 1925. He helped raise two step-daughters, Mary Daisy Grover and Mary Malinda Grover. My mother, Viola Betty, was only 6 when her father died, but she remembers sitting on his lap and speaking into an ear trumpet so her father could hear her. The family was destitute and the Knights of Pythias Cemetery Board paid for his burial. He was a good man and universally liked.
Funny story: King's wife, Nancy Ellen, wanted to learn how to drive a car so he taught her. Fifty years later, when Mary Daisy and Mary Malinda would tell this story, they would laugh so hard tears ran down their cheeks and they could barely gasp out the story. It seems Nancy Ellen backed the car up and ran straight into the shafts of a buggy. The shafts were the exact same distance apart as the two tail lights on the car. Smashed them both.
Arizona Republic pg. 11. Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday, January 20, 1925
George Henry King Funeral services for George Henry King, 37 years of age, who died Sunday, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the A. H. McLellan Chapel. Rev. D.J. Williams, pastor of the Free Methodist church, will conduct the services. Interment will be In Greenwood cemetery. Mr. King is survived by his widow, three daughters and a son.
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