Lemuel Willis King (1826-1911)

KING, WOOD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/9/2010 at 18:06:57

From Nevada Representative January 20, 1911

Lemuel Willis King for more than forty years a most estimable and much esteemed citizen of Nevada, died at his home in this city southeast of the main school building late Tuesday afternoon. He was born at Canaan, New Hampshire, March 26, 1826, and died at Nevada, Iowa January 17, 1911, aged 84 years, 9 months and 22 days. The occasion of his death was a general breaking-down from old age, and the end had been plainly foreseen for some time before it came.

Mr. King was reared in the east, came as a young man as far west as Illinois, was married here to Miss Salina W. Wood, and came in 1867 to Nevada, which has since been his home. By trade he was a capenter and joiner, and in his work he was painstaking and efficient. In the affairs of the community he was never aspiring but his worth attracted attention and for many years he was assessor of the city. In a modest and most admirable way he met his duties and responsibilies that came to him, and in the many years that he came and went among the people of this community it would be within the limits of confident assertion to say that never was an unkind word said of him. He was notably upright and kindly and a good man in every sense.

He leaves a wife and three sons, William L., Herbert T. and Frank E. The eldest son is in the printing business at Ames; the second son is with the American express company in Alabama and will not be able to come for the funeral. The youngest son has remained with the old people and is now the deputy county auditor. The funeral will be conducted Friday at two o'clock from the Methodist church by Rev. Shaw.