Solomon King

Notes for SOLOMON KING: According to Don Vincent in "800 Missouri Families", Volume Two, Solomon King

was born in Canada in 1802 and came to Missouri about 1831, locating on Spring Creek in Phelps County in

1833 according to a citation in Goodspeed, page 629. He was supposed to have been listed in the 1850

Census in Pulaski County, page 153. With one Joseph Walton, Solomon King furnished security in the 1837

Pulaski County settlement of Washington G. Walton's estate. Solomon was also said to have owned one

male and one female slave.

In an interview in "800 Missouri Families", Volume Three, his informant, Cecil Benson (a grandson of

Solomon King) stated that "King family came down the St. Lawrence on a keelboat. They came to North -

uh, upstate New York. They come down from Canada into New York."

According to the Rolla Express newspaper of Rolla, Missouri on 24 Jun 1861, Solomon King of Rolla was

one of some 63 men who took an Oath of Allegiance to support the Constitution of the United States.

LAST WILL OF SOLOMAN KING

Will Book A & B- page 95, 96

I, Solomon King of Phelps County Missouri do hereby declare the following to be my Last Will & Testament

and do hereby divise & bequeath my property, personal and real as follows:

I. I, give and bequeath to my wife, Perlina K. King, the sum of three hundred dollars.

II. I give and bequeath to my son W.G. King the sum of one hundred dollars.

Ill. I give & bequeath to Cristie A. Morse, my daughter one horse & one hundred dollars.

IV. I give & bequeath to Lucinda Bates one horse and one hundred dollars.

V. I give & bequeath to Cornelia B. King and Jennie A. King my minor children, all of my other property, real

personal & mixed goods, money + choses in action to be equally divided between them.

To John A. King, Hyram A. King, Francis M. King my sons, I give nothing. they having been heretofore

provided for out of my property and to William & James King sons of Joshua King (dec.) my son) I give

nothing the said Joshua having been provided for in his life time & having received his due proportion of my

property.

I hereby appoint Azro Emory of Phelps County my executor of this will and direct him to carry out it's

provisions strictly.

I further will that at my death all my property except two horses above bequeathed & given both personal &

real, to be sold by my executor at the best terms possible and the proceeds of the same after the payment of

all my just debts and the spicific legacies above created, be equally applied to & for the benefit of my two

children CorneCornelia B. & Jennie A. King and that out of said funds they are to be properly provided for and

liberally educated.

We attest the above & foregoing will by subscribing our names hereto as witness in the presence of

Soloman King the testator.

C.C. Bland

C.M. Hamill

Oct. 28 1869 A.D.