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165th jubilee : official publication commemorating McKeesport's old home week celebration, 1795-1960.
McKeesport, Pa.: Wivagg Printing, 1960.
Bruice A. Yount, Editor
Pg. 27
The litigation which followed the death of JAMES EVANS strained the relations between OLIVER EVANS and his sisters. HARRIETT KING demanded an accounting of his administration of the estates which OLIVER refused to make. She then petitioned the Orphans’ Court for the dismissal of OLIVER as guardian, and on April 5, 1856, the court signed an order dismissing OLIVER as guardian, and appointed CHARLES W. ROBB in his stead. As JULIA KING had died a short time prior to this action MR. ROBB became guardian only for HENRIETTA and MARY KING. HENRIETTA and MARY KING were accomplished musicians and became known not as the KING Girls but as the Princesses. The little brick house that sat the southeast corner of Walnut St. and Shaw’s Lane became the social center of the social activities of the village, and many of the borough’s most prominent young men vied wit one another for their company to dance. MARY KING went steady with no one. Both HENRIETTA and MARY KING died in their early twenties; cemetery records give the date of the death of MARY KING as Dec. 24, 1866, but there is no record of HENRIETTA’S death. HARRIETT KING survived all her daughters. A deed for the little brick house, the social center of the village, dated March 20, 1867 and recorded in Deed Book Vo.. 220 at page 182, contains the laconic recital that MARY KING, HENRIETTA KING and JULIA KING are deceased
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