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Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee 1887<\/big><\/big>

Biographies of Weakley County<\/big>


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B. B. KING, register of Weakley County, Tenn., was born in Mecklenburg County, N. C., in 1826.\u00a0 His father, J. W. King, was born in 1793 on the Atlantic Ocean, while his parents were crossing from Belfast, Ireland, to America. \u00a0 He was a farmer and while in North Carolina, married Margaret S. Rogers, who was born in 1793 and died in 1836.\u00a0 At the latter date he came to Tennessee, locating in Weakley County, where he died in 1872.\u00a0\u00a0 He was twice married, his second wife being Nancy B. Rochelle, who bore him three children.\u00a0 Seven children were born to his first marriage.\u00a0\u00a0 He served as sheriff and magistrate while in North Carolina, and also filled the latter office while in Weakley County, Tenn.\u00a0 Our subject resided on a farm until twenty years of age.\u00a0\u00a0 He then worked as clerk about six years, at different points and then returned to the farm.\u00a0 In December, 1860, he wedded Jennette Lesieur, who died in 1862.\u00a0 In 1864 he married Melissa Delisle, who died the same year, and in 1868 he wedded Angeline (Johnson) Neill, daughter of Thomas Johnson. Mrs. King was born in Calhoun, Ky., in 1844, and became the mother of the following children: Bertie, Beulah B., Joseph Andrew, John Robert, James Shannon, Victor Czar and Jeb. Stewart.\u00a0 Mrs. King had two children by her first husband: Thomas L. and Mary.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1862 Mr. King enlisted in Company I, First Missouri Cavalry Regiment, and was at the battle of Frederickstown.\u00a0\u00a0 His principal duty was scouting and he remained in the service two years.\u00a0\u00a0 He resided in Missouri until 1869, when he returned home.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1880 he was elected county register to fill the unexpired term of W. T. Cardwell, who died in office, and in 1882 was re-elected for four years.\u00a0 He has been faithful in the discharge of his duties and is an efficient officer. He is a Democrat and belongs to the Masonic and I.O.O.F. fraternities. He and wife are\u00a0 members\u00a0 of the Cumberland\u00a0 Presbyterian Church.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee 1887 Biographies of Weakley County Biographies – K \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B. B. KING, register of Weakley County, Tenn., was born in Mecklenburg County, N. C., in 1826.\u00a0 His father, J. W. King, was born in 1793 on the Atlantic Ocean, while his parents were crossing from Belfast, Ireland, to America. \u00a0 He Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 2, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 2, 2020 11:24 am","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2020 4:01 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}