Re: Pope, King, Smith in Morgan Couny
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Pope, King, Smith in Morgan Couny
joan harris 7/11/00
Dear Joan,
What Kings are you looking for? My 4th great grandfather, Harmon Daniel King, Sr. was probably born in Virginia in the 1750s or 60s. He served in the Revolutionary War and afterwards settled in SC. He appears in The Camden, Kershaw County, SC census of 1800. He appears in the Morgan County, Alabama County census records of 1809, 1815 and 1815. In 1825, he married as his second wife, a lady named Phoeba Hensley in Morgan County, Alabama. I have always heard that he went back to SC sometime after 1825, but a cousin of mine recently informed me that she had found him in the 1830 census of Madison County, Ala, and that she thought his will was recorded there.
Harmon's first wife was Elizabeth Flye of South Carolina, a daughter of Jesse Flye (the name was also spelled Fly and Fley) and Elizabeth Rochelle. (Both these Elizabeths seem to have occasionally gone by the nicknames Betsy or Bettie.)Their son Harmon Daniel King, Jr. was born in SC c. 1805, and died in NC in 1906. Legend has it that he "rode on a mule to Alabama to get his education shortly after the University opened there."
There is an Elisha F. King who appears in a roster of soldiers from Madison County, Alabama in the War of 1812. If Elizabeth Flye fits in to the Flye family where I think she does, she would have had an uncle named Elisha Flye. I therefore think it likely that the Elisha F. King might have been a child of Harmon and Elizabeth, named after her uncle, and an older brother of my ancestor Harmon, Jr.
I hope to compare notes with you.
Best Regards,
John Field Pankow
Asheville, NC
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