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♦ OB1TL AJtl + Ukiug~ At the home a Buis Hilli Turnbull countv Januarv 4 ^U 30 a m Bex H B Allen pa*, lor of he Vernon M h church of fula ed at the ft 11 era! ^erwces lt;f ^ the late J 1 Kin$, M ij and based hi~ nholarh remarks on the test Pot what ilt; life'* Mrs Mart Hull Mi'« Franres Jones and Mi ?{ (, ] Smith sang Abide \\ 1 h Me andCome \e Disconsolate The paUbearers weie Messr*. BurneU HullChaimer* Pel! f s Felton *nd 1 H *Miller and the Interment a*« in West V e cemecerv icnn IuIiub King was born In Harrison town•ship near Planet jli« Wimousiu November 13 1S *^ His father IJohn **on of inrae* Sr and Hua % ,in® Smail were married near f lame-town Penn^Utam? in 18 47 h and in Apnl of he follow ms* \e-tr f iemoted to W 1 lonsin Apn 1 184lt;lt; ethe father left foi ( alPornla to r, si arch for gold and died at \ogia * Bar on the American rivet ( Hi c fcrnia lanum 1 1 0 Mrs Kingnarr ed Harvev it tone® In whom Jl^he had two ih!dj«n F» 7a andtrIHrvev in March is i Mi Jones t rd it thf overh l route foi v ' aMungton territory witn hits fani J il\ and readied the p|Rte of their * oeMination in October on White mei King count' tupno mileslCfrom Seiitle Hue lohn King at ictei ded school walking wo mile* ra on* a hla7ed path at the risk of v being killed hi Jbe Indians or a panthers Sundav Ouobei 28 Job t his mother and Mepfa her were^e Killed in a pun of about fMuteen K! Ktfa Indian*. Mi Jones was in \ bed when he at a k began being ill of pleunsx Mn Joijoh fired a fea t hots wstii » fi 1 hcottr but soon t oj ped Mte hid he tiiree children * ondei a feather b ti 1 ui ioun crept * lt;n 1 p’ng Uie flooi and n\ Mr cioie* ps he came to It s door and ( tfanMl against it when a hi 1 - imk him I he house wilh M» lone i (u vis burned to the mound Iwo 5 dais af erward- a sea dung par 1 *found Mr« Iones n°ai the house jdead fiom a gun «ho wound J ihtr took hr** ha*f **iator and naif biothei , aged about four and two te«peinve 1\ and walked three miles searching fot settlors but found ihev hud (led He was retracing his steps.' hen he rim Tom a friend)' Indian who took the children to hh igam and hen the moon wa« highp’ared them in his lt;anoe tnd slatted for ^eaitle Near the mouth of the Duwanush river the% wete put In charge of Indian Dave ho headed for the s’oop of war DeiaDir The little children remained on shore ah}}e John was on ship board going on hore dailv and returning nights th« moM of the rime The events of ihe«e davs of murder terror and •niffenng ere indchbh Impressed m the m nd of John King and are giapiu alh described in The 1 rag edv of I esrhi published n l°o in Seattle In Mai IS 6 the uncle John ‘■ma'l who 1 as in California hearing of the massacre came on to Seattlf and in June left 1th tie rhildifn on hoard the Decatur In Sin Pram No a performam e asgiven foi them at the American theater I heme thee went to NewV orb b' wav of the Isthmus of Pan ama and from there to Wisconsin wheie Hi#a and Hai\e\ ete left with lelalne* and lohn was brought | to the home of his uncle the Rev David King on the old Jsrnes King jfarm F liza and Harvev died of diphtheiia within two days of each othei and the' had not seen each ® other fot three feks and livedI three tni,fth apart John never sawthem aftc’ parting with them tn18h He united nhh tbp \ ernonM 1 church ^cnember ^ IS62 He attended Allegheny college Meadville from 1SbT to 1 ^“2 He begin the gftrdj of medicine in lkb7 tnd ip 18o entered his name as a student in the office of David BeM M D Mead'ille Pennsvhanm He ( at»ended two courses of let turea of (Six months each in the medical de paitment of the 1 nnerMn of Mich igan and received his degiee from Bellevue Hospital New \oik 111 IS 3 and in April of the «ame vear located at Greece Cut Penns'irania hire be practiced until Novembe? of th following vear hen he came to Burg Hill D Hire lav sard ojhim ‘hat he v a« one of the oest tnJ formed phvsitiar*. in the count? Nr one m tne township had «o much niR terial telative o the earlv settiemen; of Vernon as did Dr King and it is legietted that in the midst of a bus'I life he had not tune to prepare tt foi publication Returning from rnai Sbarpsvilip the evening of Derembei 22 he walked to the home of the late J P Beattv H* said he chilled through and ns walking alt; a« Jo get ivarm While sitting then he eaid Peonle talk ahou Chr^ d tug to save the world eyerv da'1 see per«son? »ho are dving to save (others From tiieie he went tlt; the home of Mi=ses Kit and FH?; Morai Hi^ last calls The nex mo-nmg he wa* piostrated wit! pleim-v pneumonia developed later and lie jias^ed aav lanuaiv 0 1^1 1 at one o clock a m six tv on vearc after Hip de^ib of his father He is strvived bv a daughter ^frlt;5 FH71 1 Douce two grindchildren Richard and Herbert a cousin Rev W ( King of South Dakota am his wifp Dr King v* as a formei res Mdent of M?r el and was known to al » of the older resident^ of Marion anc* 1( ItlH' • * *
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Marion Weekly Star
Marion, Ohio, US
Sat, Feb 04, 1911
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