Migration Pattern of
Robert McGee KING
22
Aug 1833
He
professed religion at New Hope Campground, Wilson Co TN, then went to
Cumberland College at
Princeton, Kentucky.
Fall
1835
He
presented
himself before the Princeton Presbytery.
Oct
1838
He was
licensed to preach at Springfield, Robertson Co TN.
3
Oct 1839
He
graduated at the University of Nashville.
Nov
1839
He took charge
of Carrick Academy at Winchester, Franklin Co TN.
31
Dec 1840
He married
1) Miss Amelia JUDD in Franklin Co TN.
1841
He
resigned his
situation in Carrick Academy, then went to Gallatin TN and took
charge of the
Transylvania Academy.
Unknown
date
He went to
Piqua, Miami Co OH, and spent 3½ years there.
Fall
1846
He moved from
Ohio (one source says Cincinnati) to Lawrence Co MO where he took
charge of Spring River
Academy.
1852
He
accepted the
presidency of Cane Hill College in Washington Co AR.
1853
He
married 2) Sarah H.
BRALY, probably in Arkansas.
Spring
1857
He returned to
Lawrence Co MO.
Sep
1863
During Civil
War, he and his family started for California via St. Louis, New York
and
the Isthmus of Panama.
1870
He was living in Contra
Costa Co CA.
24
Mar 1879
He died in
Mountain View, Santa Clara Co CA. It is
unknown where he was buried,
but perhaps in the cemetery
beside the old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church
where he last served as
minister and where his funeral service was held. This
cemetery was later
covered over by the city of Mountain View to build a city park
called Pioneer Park, so
called because the cemetery was the final resting place of
many of Mountain View's
early settlers. However, no
reinterments were made.
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Banner of Peace &
Cumberland
Advocate, Lebanon TN
Friday, October 17, 1851
Amelia
J. KING, consort of Rev. R. M. KING of Spring River MO, died 8-18. Born 4-24-1810 and joined Presbyterian
Church at Onondaga NY. She taught
school in TN. Married R. M. KING in
TN. Mentions husband, son, and infant.
Friday, November 28, 1851
Died
at Spring River Academy, Lawrence Co MO 10-3-1851, Robert A. KING -
aged 1 year
wanting 6 days. Son of Rev. R. M. KING
& his late wife, Amelia J. KING.
She died 8-18.
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The
Lawrence County Historical Society Bulletin - July 1985 quotes from the
works
of The Rev. E. E. Stringfield in "Presbyterianism in the Ozarks,
1834-1909" as follows:
"Spring
River Academy was doubtless the first high school opened in western
Missouri. It was formed by Ozark
Presbytery and went into operation under the superintendency of Rev. J.
B.
Logan in November 1844.
"In
the autum of 1846, Rev. Robert McGee King of Cincinnati, Ohio, became
president. His wife, Amelia Judd King,
was principal of the girl's department.
The first year of their incumbency about 50 pupils were
enrolled."
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The
Lawrence County MO Historical Society Bulletin - October 1985 -
regarding
Spring River Academy:
"
. . . These homes had been built for use through the school term when
parents,
usually mothers, came and stayed with their children and kept other
children
who boarded and attended school, teachers first and last.
The last of these were Robert King and his
wife. In addition to his teaching he
operated a farm lying south of the school a half mile or so. The farm work was done with Negro
slaves. As the Civil War became more
imminent, being a southern sympathizer, he moved to Texas.
"Robert
King and his brother, William, came from East Tennessee, according to
'Missouri, Mother Of The West,' Vol. IV, p 208. Obviously
referring to the Spring River Academy, it continues,
'They were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Robert King was the educator who established
King Academy at Mt. Vernon, a noted preparatory school of its time in
southwest
Missouri.'"
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Family of Robert McGee
KING
Robert
McGee KING, b 30 Jul 1812 Sumner Co TN; d 24 Mar 1879 Mountain View,
Santa
Clara Co CA; s/o William McGee KING & Priscilla HASSELL; m 1) 31
Dec 1840
Franklin Co TN (per bible & Franklin Co TN marriages) to Amelia
JUDD, b 6
May 1810 NY; d 18 Aug 1851 Lawrence Co MO, bur McCune Cemetery,
Lawrence Co MO;
she joined the Presbyterian Church at Onondaga NY; he m 2) ca 1852 to
Sarah H.
BRALY, d/o Rev. Frank M. BRALY & Elizabeth H. MADISON; Sarah b ca
1833 MO;
death after 1880 unknown place (shown as widow in Santa Clara Co CA
1880).
Issue
of first marriage:
William
Sheldon KING, b 14 Jan 1842 TN (probably Franklin Co); d 18 Oct 1861
Lawrence
Co MO, bur McCune Cemetery, Lawrence Co MO; no married.
Robert
A. KING, b 9 Oct 1850 Lawrence Co MO; d 3 Oct 1851 Lawrence Co MO, bur
McCune
Cemetery, Lawrence Co MO; not married.
Issue
of second marriage:
James
B. KING, b ca 1853 Lawrence Co MO; still at home 1870, left home by
1880.
Ann
(or Alice) M. KING, b ca 1856 Washington Co AR (shown as Ann in 1860,
Alice in
1870); still at home in 1870, left home by 1880.
Margaret
KING, b ca 1861 Lawrence Co MO; still at home in 1880.
Francis
(Frank) KING, b ca 1864 in California; still at home 1880.
Robert
(2nd) KING, b ca 1867 in California; still at home 1880.
Paul
KING, b ca 1869 Contra Costa Co CA; d before Oct 1876 in Contra Costa
or Santa
Clara Co CA.
Sources:
Gray-Harris
bible.
McCune
Cemetery, Lawrence Co MO.
Franklin
Co TN marriages.
Banner
of Peace & Cumberland Advocate, Lebanon TN.
1850
Lawrence Co MO.
1860
Lawrence Co MO.
1870
Contra Costa CA.
1880
Santa Clara Co CA (widow).
Cumberland
Presbyterian Archives Web site.
Biographical
Sketches from "Living Old Men of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,"
Vol.
I, by E. B. Crisman, D.D., 1877.
prepared and submitted by
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December 21, 2003