Individual Details

Henry P. King

(1837 - )

His family moved to SW Missouri in 1838. In 1853, King immigrated West, crossing the plains with an ox team. After six months on the road he arrived in the Territory of Oregon where he remained for two years. He engaged passage on a sailing brig to San Francisco where he arrived in March of 1855, remaining there until Oct of 1866. He then sailed via Central America, probably arriving in New Orleans. He reached Van Buren in December of 1866.

Events

Birth1837Tennessee
Marriage1867Crawford County, Arkansas - Rebecca A. Howell
Marriage1877Crawford County, Arkansas - R. Elizabeth Pendergrass

Families

SpouseRebecca A. Howell (1848 - 1876)
SpouseR. Elizabeth Pendergrass ( - )
FatherJohnson King ( - 1862)
MotherMinerva [King] ( - )

Notes

Birth

1870 Census given his age as 38, born 1832.

Endnotes

1. The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwestern Arkansas Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties (The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Chicago. c1889), Biography of H. P. King..

2. Transcribed by Jeania Moore Burns, US Census. 1870. Arkansas, Crawford County., Jasper Twp; p.191; Household 77.

3. The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwestern Arkansas Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties (The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Chicago. c1889), Biography of H. P. King..

4. The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwestern Arkansas Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties (The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Chicago. c1889), Biography of H. P. King..