Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Obituary of William H. King. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of William H. King.

Wm. Henry King was born on the 6th day of January, 1843, at or near Frankfort, Clinton county, and died at Rensselaer, Ind-., Mqy 21, 1909, aged 67 years. He was the third and only son of seven children born to John and Elizabeth King, of which three sisters survive, Mrs. John Wolf, of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Mary Ballanger, of Zionsville, Ind., and Mrs. Abe Simpson, of Rensselaer, Ind. He was united in marriage to Miss Anna E. Hall December 19, 1861, at Greenfield, Ind. To this union seven children were born, four boys and three girls, of which three girls and three boys survive—Mrs. Alice Mills, of Zionsville, Ind.; Mrs. Martha Warden, of Wabash, Ind.; Wm. H., of Medaryville, Ind.; Benj. E. and Frank H., of Rensselaer, and Mrs. Emma Wolf, of Rensselaer. He united with the Free Will Baptist church about 25 years ago. That Laura Bunn Clark is the legal wife of the Rev. E. E. Davidson, former pastor of the First Christian church at Washington, Ind., was decided Tuesday by Judge Houghton in the Daviess‘county court. Miss Clark, the daughter of a former mayor of Washington, alleged that Davidson and she were secretly married in a St. Louis hotel by a private contract drawn up by the preacher on the back of an envelope. Soon after the publication of the charge Davidson left. He was last heard from at Toronto. He denied Miss Clark was his wife. When you want a bottle of good milk, cream, cottage cheese, skimmed milk, call 510 K. M. J. Thornton, Dairyman.