Daughter of David Cromwell Hayhurst and Nancy Elizabeth Everson Hayhurst. Early in her marriage (Dec 12, 1902) to Harry Rex King they lived in a tent with a wooden floor at Pine Grove WV, near the gas & oil fields where Rex worked as a driller. Other homes were at Wallace, Haywood, and Lumberport, WV; and as given below. With Rex working in oil fields for years at a time and as far away as Poland (1923-1930, with a trip home in 1927), raising the children and maintaining the home fell mostly on Amy. She was highly skilled in a wide range of homemaking skills, and later in life was an avid genealogist. In 1925 the family moved to 667 Price St, Morgantown, WV so some of the children could live at home while at West Virginia University. This included daughter Mildred Lorraine King and, after graduation from Morgantown High School, son Harry Hayhurst King. Eldest son Ralph also attended WVU during this time (married in 1927 but later divorced first wife.) When Harry H King decided to go to the Ohio State University School of Dentistry, the family moved to Columbus where they lived near OSU at 36 E. Frambes Ave. Years later, after Rex King retired from oilfield work, he and Amy lived back in Morgantown for about a year with daughter Lorraine and her husband; and then lived several years in a duplex next to daughter Hazel and her husband at Waverly, New York. After Rex died at Waverly, Amy lived for periods of time with various children, and eventually moved back to Morgantown and lived with daughter Lorraine and her husband for the rest of her life. A short time before "Mama King" died, she spoke a wish to her granddaughter Anne that her descendants would believe in and follow God. In life, Amy was a faithful member of Drummond Chapel Methodist and other churches, the Eastern Star, DAR, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. At the time of her death (from a stroke and pneumonia) Amy had nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.