Daniel Yeates was a colonel in the American Revolution. Daniel Yeates' daughter, Sarah Yeates, was born about 1770 and married Richard King in 1796, in Onslow County, North Carolina.. Richard was born about 1772. They were both natives of North Carolina. Richard and Sarah had eight children, five boys and three girls. Their son William was born about 1799 in North Carolina. Son Hosea was born about 1806 in North Carolina. One of their sons may have been named Solomon, though this is not proved. Sometime after 1806 the family moved to Tennessee, as their youngest child, James Monroe King, was born there in 1818. About 1836 Richard and Sarah moved again, this time to Alabama. Son James Monroe was still single and moved with them. Sons William and Hosea, who had their own families in Tennessee, also followed them to Alabama. Richard and Sarah King died in about 1842. Richard and Sarah King's son, William, had married a North Carolina girl named Margaret. Margaret was born about 1799. This couple's first son was Richard. It is not known when or where Richard was born. Their second child was Loomis, or Lumas, and he was born about 1823, probably in Tennessee although one source said Alabama. Additional children followed: Mariah, 1825 in Tennessee; Solomon, 1832 in Tennessee (possibly named after an uncle Solomon King); Ann, 1834 in Tennessee; Mary, 1835 in Tennessee; Margaret, 1836 in Alabama; and Emily, 1839 in Alabama. In 1843, the three King brothers, William, Hosea and James, and possibly a fourth brother, Solomon, left Alabama with their families for a new life in Arkansas. They traveled overland by ox-teams. While traveling through Mississippi, Hosea's wife Celia gave birth to son William. The brothers settled in north-central Arkansas, in the county of Marion, near the town of Yellville. All these Kings are presumed to have been farmers. To make a long story short, the Kings took sides in a political rivalry in Marion County, and in October 1848 were involved in a fight at a political rally. One King offspring, Jack, was killed and several men, named Everrett, from the opposing side were killed. After the fight, many of the participating families left Marion County. Some of the Everetts went to Texas. William, Hosea, James and Lumas King took their families south to Conway County, Arkansas. Young William King, also ended up in or near Conway County. In the summer of 1849 two Everetts returned from Texas and convinced the sheriff of Marion County to go to Conway County and arrest the Kings. It is not clear who was arrested, other than Lumas, but Lumas, his father William, Hosea, James, Young Bill and possibly Richard King were in the party on the return trip to Marion County. Shortly after entering Marion County, late of the afternoon of August 31, 1849, the sheriff left the Everetts in charge of the prisoners and went home. The Everetts then shot William (Old Billy), Loomis and Young Bill King. The other Kings were able to escape. When the census was taken in 1850, Hosea King's family was living in Benton Township, Conway County, as was Margaret King and her family. James King had settled in Prairie County, Arkansas, which later became Lonoke County, where James held several political offices. Solomon is not found in the 1850 census anywhere in Arkansas. The murders in Marion County created at least two fatherless families back in Conway County. One of these was William's, now headed by Margaret King, age 51 in 1850, and the other by Lumas' widow, Hanah King, age 27. Hamilton Moore and Minerva Ann King, daughter of William and Margaret King, were married September 21, 1851. The marriage is recorded in the Conway County, Arkansas Marriage Book 1, page 5. This was one of the very earliest marriages recorded in that county. Hamilton and Minerva Moore were my great-great-grandparents. Ed Moore Waco, Texas edmoore@grandecomNoSpamRemoveThis.net http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/o/o/Edward-H-Moore/