>From book: "The Heroes Of San Jacinto" by Sam Huston Dixon and Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Anson Jones Press, copyright 1932. Page 305 "Second Regiment Texas Volunteers Company - Calvary" Page 313 "King, William P. Born in Georgia, from which state he emi- grated to Texas in 1836. He was granted land by the Shelby county board in 1838. He died in San Augustine in 1842, leaving a wife and four children. George W. Cartwright was appointed administrator of his estate February 28, 1842." There was also a Capt. King, appearing in the book "History of Texas From Its First Settlement to 1685 to Its Annexation To the United States in 1846" by H. Yoakum. Page 86 "Hearing of the advance of the Mexicans upon Refugio, Colonel Fannin sent Captain King with twenty-eight men to remove some families yet at the mission. King reached there on the 12th of March, but seemed to have delayed his departure until the advance of Urrea's cavalry came up..." Page 89 & 90 "To return to Captain King. He had been sent out, on the morning of the 14th, to reconnoitre; but his return to the mis- sion being cut off, he attempted to reach Goliad. He lost his way, however, and found himself, after two days' march (on the morning of the 16th), only three miles from the mission, in an open prairie, and his ammunition wet. Under these cir- cumstances, he was surrounded, and obliged to surrender, pre- vious to which one of his men was mortally wounded. In six hours afterward, Captain King and his command were shot, on the road to Goliad, about a mile from the mission, and, being stripped of their clothing, were left a prey to wild beasts!" The researcher, might want to check out this web site for The Handbook of Texas, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ and perform a search in the K section of the on-line book.