Fayetteville, Ga. May 24, 1883. Major Tandy D. King was born in Stokes Co., N.C. Nov. 18, 1793 and died May 21, 1883 aged 89 years, 6 mos. and 3 days, two miles south of Fayetteville where he had lived for 61 years. He was a remarkable man in many respects - never took a dose of medicine in his life; was one of the first judges of the inferior court of the county, one of the first commissioners of the town of Fayetteville; was a member of the legislature in 1836; was in the war of 1812, stationed at Camp Covington near Savannah; had been a regular subscriber to the Federal Union, now known as the Union and Recorder, the oldest newspaper in the state, for 51 yrs. He was 6 years old when Gen. Washington died; was present when the treaty was made with the Indians at Indian Springs. He drove the first wagon thru the gap of the mountains in Harris County, which took his name and is known as King's Gap. He was one of nature's noblemen - kind to everybody and equally so to animals. Union and Recorder please copy. L. F. Blalock. Reference Source - Franklin Garrett's Necrology Database at The Atlanta History Center; Fulton Co., GA. Microfilm - Obit Abstracts, Fulton, Roll #8;