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- Check date of marriage as I believe the photocopying made a 6 look like a 5.
"The Heritage of Rutherford County North Carolina." Vol. 1
"Jonathan king (1774-1859), m. December 5 [6?] 1798, Rutherford County N.C. Sarah Taylor (1775-1862) of Rutherford County, NC. Lived in Rutherford Co NC; Buncombe Co.; Polk co. NC; buried King Cemetery... [lists sons and daughters]
"A Brief Biographical Sketch of Johathan King of North Carolina," by Caleb King, his 10th son
" Jonathan King, the subject of this sketch, was of Irish descent. His father, Samuel King, emigrated to America about the year of 1770, and settled in Virginia, where he married Elizabeth Underwood Davenport, a widow of excellent family and good standing, and the mother of two children, Elizabeth [Glover] and John.
"Four sons were the result of this marriage, Joseph, Samuel, Jonathan, and Benjamin. When these were small boys, Samuel King, with his family, removed to the western part of North Carolina, and settled on the French Broad or Mills River, in Buncombe County where he spent the remaining years of his life, dying at quite an old age.
"Jonathan was their second son (?) and was born in Virginia December 14, 1774. On the 5th of December 1798, he married Sarah Taylor, a native of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and settled on a plantation at the foot of the Blue ridge Mountains, on the Cooper's Gap Road in the latter county (now Polk County.
"Many years afterward, they bought the Twitty Plantation on Green River, eight miles from their first location, to which they removed and spent the remainder of their lives.
"Twitty, from whom they bought this latter plantation, was a notorious counterfeiter, who had been convicted of his crimes and banished from the state under the then existing laws.
"Jonathan King died December 5, 1859, lacking nine days of being 85 years old. His wife, Sarah, died January 3, 1862, aged 83 years and nearly three months.
"Jonathan King was a man of limited education, as were most of the pioneers of those times, but he served many years as magistrate, and was esteemed a 'most just and upright judge.' He was an intelligent and successful farmer, and by his energy and thrift soon accumulated a handsome fortune. He was a man of sterling character and integrity, an upright and honorable citizen, was greatly respected by all who knew him and sincerely mourned when he died.
"In their long and happy journey through life, neither he nor his beloved wife joined a church, but they were firm believers in the Christian religion, their leaning being toward the Baptist denomination. Benjamin, my father's youngest brother was a Baptist minister.
"Samuel King, Sr., the father of Jonathan King , Sr., had one brother, Joseph, and one sister, Elizabeth, who also emigrated from Ireland to Virginia with him; the sister having married a man by the name of Magoffin, and one of her sons moved to Kentucky. One of the descendants of that son was the last Governor Magoffin of that state.
"Joseph King, the brother, settled permanently in Virginia where he married and reared a family several of whom emigrated farther south. From the best information obtainable, I am of the opinion that the late Wm. R. King of Alabama, U.S. Senator and Vice President, was a descendant of that branch of the family; likewise, the late John P. King, R.R. Magnate of Augusta, Georgia and Preston King of Abingdon, Va.
"John Davenport, half-brother to Jonathan King, Sr., and father of Fanny, wife of Elias Lynch, settled in Hickory Nut Gap on Broad River in North Carolina where he attained the ripe old age of 95 years. His wife [Rebecca Taylor] was my mother's half-sister. His father (or his uncle, I forget which) had served one or more terms in the U.S. Congress as a member from Virginia. His sister and my father's half-sister married a man by the name of Underwood and settled in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and from that branch of the family descended the late Judge, W.H. Underwood of Rome, Georgia, famous wit, gentleman, and jurist.
"I have prepared the foregoing biographical sketch at the suggestion of my son, Dr. Ferdinand King, of New York City to whom I most respectfully dedicate it.
Signed: Caleb King
Dallas, Texas, November 15, 1888"
"P.S. by Caleb King
"I have written but little herein concerning the genealogy of my Mother's family, the Taylors, for the reason that I never had a chance to look it up. However, I know that her family emigrated from England to America and settled in the western part of N.C. where, as already related, my father met and married her. Grandfather Taylor, my mother's father, was twice married, and that circumstance was responsible for the fact that John Davenport, my father's half-brother, and his wife, was my mother's half-sister. My mother was one of two sisters resulting from her father's second marriage; her sister married Lewis Dickey, of an honest, upright, and prosperous family.
"As you will note, I have only referred briefly to my father's three brothers, Joseph, Samuel, and Benjamin. They reared large families and became prosperous, in fact wealthy. Joseph, like my father, never attached himself to any church. Samuel was a member of the Baptist Church for many years, but when a vigorous temperance wave swept over the country in which he resided, and his brethren informed him that he must stop distilling even his own grains and fruits, or be turned out of the church, he indignantly resigned his membership and refused reinstatement ever afterwards. The third brother Benjamin, and all his family except Elisha, were members of the Baptist Church.
Signed: Caleb King
Appended to the above is the following:
"Samuel King, Sr. was a true and loyal patriot having served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain Peter Bryan Bruin's Company, 11th Virginia Regiment, commanded successively by Colonel Daniel Morgan and Lt. Colonel Febiger. He enlisted December 9, 1776 for the war and his name appears on the Company Muster Roll for September 1777, Dated October 4, 1777, with remark 'Prisoner,' An inquiry directed to old records division, The Adjutant General of the Army will bring an authenticated record of the above. National Number 141844."
"Heritage of Henderson Co. NC"
"...The third son, Jonathan 1774-1859, married in 1798 Sarah Taylor, 1779-1862. They had fourteen children, many of whom moved from Mill Spring North Carolina, to settle in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas. Both Jonathan and Sarah are buried in Polk County, North Carolina...."
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Taylor Family Genealogy
1774 - 1859 (85 years)