> >From: LynnMKing@aol.com > >Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:14:00 EDT > >Subject: Re: [GABARTOW] Brick walls - KING/FITTS- Cass 1841-1860 > >Hello everyone, > > > >My brick wall is as follows: > > > >William S. King married Rhoda Ann Fitts 09/22/41 in Cass County, GA. Her > >sister Keziah Fitts married Alfred C. Fitts on same day. I could not find > >them on 1850 Cass County Census, but found Wm and Rhoda on 1860 Cass > >Census, with following children: > > > >Elizabeth age 15 > >Oliver age 14 (my great grand father, John Oliver King) > >Margaret H(?)age 11 > >William age 10 > >Elijah R. age 8 (Elijah Raeford) > >Joseph age 6 > >George age 1 > > > >Then on 1870 Cleburne County AL census, Rhoda was living next door with > >youngest children to John Oliver King and Margaret Jane Lamberth (my > >ggrandparents) > > > >J.O. King age 24 > >Margaret age 23 > > > >Roda A, (sic) age 50 > >Wm. age 20 > >Raferd (sic) age 18 > >Hana (?) age 16 > >Josh (?) age 14 > >George age 10 > >Henry C. age 8 > > > >I could not locate William, the father and Elizabeth must have been out of > >the home at this time. Hana and Josh are confusing in 1870, could the > >ages be wrong? Are Hana and Margaret the same person (I think is unlikely > >as Margaret could have been married and Hana left off of 1860 census) I > >might could understand the discrepancy in of 2 years in Joseph/Josh. > > > >In 1880 census, in Tallapoosa County, I found Margaret Lamberth King and > >her three sons living with her parents, Edwin W. Lamberth and Susan Ann > >White Lamberth. The sons were William, born 1870 in Alabama (assuming > >Cleburne County), John Oliver, born 1873 in AR, and George, born 1875 in > >LA. Margaret was a school teacher. Family legend is that in about 1880. > >John Oliver, the father, went to Texas to find land and a living and was > >going to send for his family. Margaret died in 1880's and left her three > >children to be raised by her parents. > > > >I located a small reference on a forum that an Oliver King, riverboat > >captain, married a Sarah Bean in Memphis, TN in 1890's. Interestingly, a > >Sarah Bean lived a few families away on 1870 Cleburne Census. She was 10 > >at the time. > > > >I do not know if Alfred C. and William S. were related. I know the Fitts > >were in Elbert County before 1840, but can not find where they moved to > >Cass Co. Rhoda Ann and Keziah O. were daughters of John Fitts and Jennie > >DePriest. > > > >I apologize for the long post. Thank you. > > > >Lynn > > >