Posted on: Hancock Co. Il Obituaries Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/HancockObits?read=248 Surname: DRAPER, KING ------------------------- No relation to me. Sep 19, 1925 - paper unknown Mrs. Bessie Draper King, buried Monday in West, was Carthage Native. Word was received her Monday morning of the death of Mrs. Bessie Draper King, former prominent Carthage woman, last Thursday in San Francisco following an operation on Wednesday. Mrs. King was fifty years old. Burial was in the western city Monday. mrs. King was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Draper. The father was one of Hancock county's most prominent attorneys. Mrs. King was born, reared, educated and married here. She leaves her husband, two daughters, a son-in-law, and one grandchild.