King, A. B.

KING, MCCORD

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Date: 11/29/2008 at 17:29:44

KING, A. B.
Dealer in books, sationery, paper hangings, toys, fancy goods, etc., Monroe. Mr. King was born in Edgar Co., IL on the 6th of May 1846, where he remained until 1855 when he moved with he parents to this county. He engaged in his present business in 1872. He is a Republican. His father, John King, was a native of Tennessee. He married Miss Elizabeth King; they moved to Indiana, thence to Illinois and from there to this county in 1855, settling on College Farm, four miles north of Newton where they remained until 1870 when they moved to Newton. Their children were John, who enlisted in the 21st I. V. I. and served until peace was restored, he was in several battles and wounded at Stone River, he married Julia MCCORD of this county; James A. who, at the breaking out of the war, enlisted in Co., B, 5th I. V. I., was promoted Captain and served until the close of the war and was honorably discharge. He then went to Grenville MS remaining until the Spring of 1866. When he was about to return to his home in the north, he fell a victim of Southern hate and was foully assassinated. His remains were brought home and interred at College Farm Cemetery, north of Newton; and A. B. whose name appears at the head of this sketch. ~ Fairview Township Biographies "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)