This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hV.2ADE/2206 Message Board Post: Yes, it is the same Benjamin King. He is my grgranddad. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Hardcastle Looper. She had two sons by Benjamin - James Harrison King (my granddad) and Dock Bradford King. Trouble between Mary Elizabeth and Benjamin caused them to divorce. He was so mad at Mary Elizabeth that he said he would marry a woman so ugly that she wouldn't stray - hence Martha Coose. Her nickname was "Puss". I too have been searching hard for Benjamin. Dock Bradford King moved his family to Shawnee, OKLA.. Mary Elizabeth married her third husband Otho Rhodes where they resided in Clarksville, ARK. I have a very distant relative who notified me several weeks ago that someone told him that Benjamin King died at Fort Smith, ARK. I have not had the time to go searching and see if I can find out anything to the contrary. If you have any more information and would like to talk let me know. Pam Hayes