Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/205 Surname: KING, WOLFE, STRALEY, HUGHES, RILEY, STAATS, KOONTZ, HEATON, CARTER ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Sycamore Creek". King Family One evening in September, 1904, while returning from Ripley, I stopped for a chat with Mrs. "Lizzie" Wolfe, at her home on Station Camp. Among other reminiscences of the past, she spoke of Leonard King, who had long lived on the top of the hill I had just passed over on the flats lying off to the right of the road, but now for many years sleeping under a giant oak tree in the Mount Olive Cemetery. She said the Kings lived on Sycamore when she first came to the country when a girl. King, she said, was a son of Francis King, who came from Hacker's Creek with her husband's father, in 1821. She remembered being at the King's house when young, they being already residents when her father, George Straley, settled at the mouth of the run which heads up in the King farm. Though she did not say whether or not they lived on the hill. The Kings kept sheep, which, like all stock in that day, ran at large in the forest, but they kept them trained to come up at nightfall, when they confined them in a pen near the house, to protect them from the wolves. Mrs. King would blow the long tin dinner horn, making the wolves howl in the neighboring woods, which would bring the sheep home. Mrs. King, whose name was, according to the recollection of my informant, Elizabeth Hughes, before her marriage, was a first cousin to her husband. Her father was "Bill" Hughes, and he is supposed to be a relative of Jesse Hughes, the famous Indian fighter. They had three grown children who were not strong, and died young. One was a dwarf. She is the only of the family with a marker to her grave. In the Mount Olive graveyard, by the side of the Spencer pike, is a grave, the head and footstones of which are not more than four and one half feet apart, the inscription on the headstone reads- Catherine, daughter of L. and R. King died June 15, 1871 aged 35 yr. 5 mo and 3 d There is a row of graves near the outside of the cemetery, under the oak trees, which is said to contain the ashes of the rest of the family. Leonard King was a member of the second grand jury in Jackson County, in 1831. Samuel R. King married Mary C. Riley, lived near Ripley, in 1836. George S. Matson King was born near Ripley, in 1836, was sheriff of Jackson County in 1866. His wife was Caroline O., daughter of Elijah Staats. They had seven children. A Mrs. Nancy King, widow of Samuel King, died in 1896, at the age of nearly seventy nine. M. V. King and John I. King were her sons. She was either a second wife of Samuel R. King, or there was also another Samuel King. Rufina King died at Buckhannon, in April, 1904. She was wife of Reverend F. B. J. King, sister of Mrs. Koontz and Mrs. S. D. King. Reverend W. W. King, Dr. J. M. King, E. M. King, and Mrs. Heaton were her children. Reverend D. E. W. King, of Jackson County, was probably a brother of F. H. J. King, perhaps a son of G. S. Matson King. There were Kings on Cow Run and Little Mill Creek. One married a Carter.