Individual Details

Excerpts from Bio from unidentified History book, published 1892.
Newton J. King, a prominent citizen of Whitney, Hill Co, ws born in North Carolina, April 15, 1826, a son of James and Rebecca (Ratcliff) King. The father died in North Carolina in 1843 at the age of fifty-six years, and the mother in Georgia, in 1862, aged seventy-five years. The parents had fifteen children, fiz: Bette, wife of Jonathan Coyins; Sarah, widow of Richard Cox; Johnson, deceased; Redden, deceased; Harrison, deceased; Posey; Edmond, deceased; Kinsey Turner, deceased; Caroline, wife of Drew Weeks; Newton J, our subject; Myra, wife of Andrew Calvord; Emeline, deceased, wife of John Logan; Lucinda; and James, deceased.
....in 1846 he enlisted in the Mexican was and served eighteen months and is now a Mexican pensioner
...married Nov 15, 1855 to Miss Evaline V. Basye

Birth

15 Apr 1826

North Carolina

Father	James King (1787 - 1844)
Mother	Rebecca Ratcliff (1787 - 1862)
Sibling	Humphrey Posey King (1817 - )
Sibling	Edmond B. King (1819 - 1884)
Sibling	Mary Caroline King (1824 - 1898)
Sibling	Nancy Emaline King (1830 - 1882)
Sibling	Lucinda G. King (1832 - )
Sibling	James King (1834 - 1892)