Jay A. King (1845-1932)

KING, JACKSON, DAY, COGGSHALL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/21/2021 at 12:13:14

From Nevada Evening Journal October 10, 1932 (page 3)

Body of Jay A. King Brought Back to Nevada for Burial

Funeral services for Jay A. Kiing, 87, Civil War veteran and long-time resident of Nevada, who died at his home in Des Moines Friday evening were held in Des Moines early this afternoon and body brought to Nevada for interment.

Burial will be in the Nevada cemetery under the ritualistic ceremonies of the Masonic Lodge of which Mr. King had bee a member for many years.

Members of Nevada Lodge A. F. & A. M. met at the Masonic hall at 1:45, preparatory to meeting the funeral cortege, which was expected to arrive from Des Moines at about 3:00.

Mr. King was one the few surviving members of Jason D. Ferguson post G. A. R., and while he had been away from Nevada for twenty years or more, he had retained his membership in the local post until the charter was surrendered a few years ago.

Jay A. Knig was born at Akron, Ohio, May 28, 1845, son of Dr. John E. King and Ann Jackson-King. The family came west in 1871 and located at Eldora.

He was educated in the schools of Akron and later of Eldora and after teaching schools for two years enlisted in 1863 and served throughout the balance of the war with E company Ninth Iowa cavalry.

He came to Story county in 1868, first as a bookkeeper for the then prominent mercantile firm of Baldwin & Maxwell at Iowa Center.

In 1875 he was elected county treasurer and continued in that office for three terms, after which he became connected with the Farmers bank, then owned and operated by Otis Briggs Sr.

In 1889 he became associated with O. L. Dunkelbarger in the grain and lumber business and continued in this business for several years. For a number of years he was president of the Iowa Grain Dealers association and later became associated in and at the head of the Iowa Grain Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance association.

He was married in 1880 to Miss Lillie A. Day and to them one child, Day E. King, was born. That son is now at Park City, Utah. The wife lived but a year and Mr. King was married the second time in 1889 to Mrs. Elizabeth Coggshall. This wife also preceded him in death.

Of his immediate family he leaves his son, Day E. King of Utah and a foster daughter Flossie King who had lived with and managed his home for many years.

He also leaves a brother O. J. King of Eldora and another George H. King located in Colorado.

During his residence in Nevada Mr. King was active in Masonic and Pythian Circles and also was a leading worker in the Republican party in this part of the state.