According to what I was told by the family historian, at least part of the land that is now Fort Benning was once King land. I'll check my notes later and see what notes I have on this. I know it was descendents of Michael (of VA cira late 1600's), Henry, Michael, Michael, Charles (moved to GA) At 09:42 AM 12/9/98 , CeltKnots@aol.com wrote: >Dear List, > I am a member of the US Army stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia. During the >Post's history, the government annexed a number of small towns and villages >around the post and turned the land into training areas. While they did tear >down all of the buildings in these towns, they left all the small graveyards >intact. Hence, the post is dotted with little fenced off gravesites. While >on a break during one of my many training exercises, I wandered into one of >these graveyards purely for the historical value. To my amazement I found a >number of Kings buried here. I wasn't able to get much information off the >gravestones since most of them were very old and not really taken care of. >Hopefully somebody will recognize the names on my list. > > E. S. King b 1 Apr 12880 d 19 Mar 1901 > Carrie K. King b 2 Jul 1851 d 17 Jul 1890 > K. Carrie King b 17 May 1878 d 21 Sep 1878 > E. L. King Jr. b 4 Jul 1873 d 4 Jul 1873 > > I sincerely hope this helps someone. I hate to think that someone is looking >for these people and are unable to find them. >Sincerely, >SSG David R. King --- Deborah S Nelson Santa Clara CA