153 ARTEMAS KING, (Theodore, Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Suffield, Conn., Jany. 12, 1799; died in Suffield March 14, 1881; married in Suffield Jany. 12, 1825, Sophia Granger, daughter of Roderick Granger, born Aug. 13, 1802; died Jany. 6, 1864. Their children were born in Suffield. Artemas King was an active and prominent man in the town of Suffield. He was highly respected and a man of superior intelligence and judgment, always holding some important town office until he had passed the age of seventy years. He was consulted in all important affairs of the town and frequently people from adjoining towns sought his advice. In his early days he was captain of the militia or "Old Guard" and for many years Justice of the Peace. In 1868, when he was sixty-nine years of age, he notified the town that owing to the approaching age limit of seventy years they must not elect him to that office again as he would not serve longer in that capacity. They then elected him Representative and he served two terms in the legislature at New Haven and Hartford, Conn. Artemas King and his brother Theodore inherited a large tract of land from their father who was the largest landowner in Suffield. They afterwards purchased the Harmon farm of many acres adjoining their tract. Theodore died in 1857 leaving his share to Horace A. King, the eldest son of Artemas. After the death of Horace A. King, in 1869, Artemas King purchased the estate from the heirs and became sole owner, and on his death left the property to his children. About two years after the death of Artemas King the old homestead burned, destroying many valuable records and relics among which was the gun used by his father in the Revolutionary War. HORACE ARTEMAS," b. May 19, 1826; d. March 28, MARY JANE, b. Nov. 27, 1827; d. Feb. 23, 1883; m. LESTER THEODORE, b. Jany. 24, 1831; m. March, 1850, 375* iv. CYRUS HORATIO, b. March 30, 1833; d. Jany. 14, 1885; m. (1) Nov. 23, 1863, Sarah R. Case; (2) Katherine Grover. RODERICK GRANGER, b. Aug. 26, 1835; d. Dec. 28, EDWARD CRITON, b. Dec. 22, 1840; m. (1) Dec. 24, 154 ICHABOD KING, (Ichabod, Capt. Joseph, James,' William,1), born in Marlboro, Vt., Feb. 27, 1780; died in West Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 9, 1862; buried in Marlboro; married (1) in Marlboro Jany. 4, 1807, Clarissa Howard, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Mather) Howard, born in Marlboro Sept. 29, 1781; died in Marlboro March 7, 1832; (2) in Marlboro Feb. 27, 1833, Sally Hatch, daughter of James and Esther (Tucker) Hatch, born in Halifax, Vt., March 10, 1790, died in Jacksonville, Vt., June 30, 1885. He was a farmer. Children all born at Marlboro, Vt. ISSUE: 379* i. 6 LAURA, b. April 16, 1808; d. Sept. 1, 1837; m. June 22, 1834, Josiah Powers. LEVI, b. June 20, 1811; d. Nov. 22, 1812. LEVI, (again), b. May 23, 1814; d. Oct. 26, 1882; m. Jany. 31, 1849, Mary E. Hicklin. CARLOS, b. Aug. 4. 1816; m. March 15, 1859, Burlington, Iowa, Mrs. Susan Alexander. 383* V. 384 vi. HOLLIS, b. Nov. 13, 1818; d. Oct. 28, 1863; m. June 13, 1850, Jane Elizabeth Derby. DAVID, b. Jany. 30, 1821. Went to California in 1853, and never heard from since 1863. He is thought to have died there unmarried. 385* vii. CLARA, b. Dec. 29, 1823; d. Feb. 25, 1895; m. Sept. 18, 1846, Josiah Powers. 155 LOVISA KING, (Ichabod, Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Marlboro, Vt., March 23, 1782; died in Marlboro July II, 1847; unmarried. She was visited by a sickness in 1805 from which she did not recover but continued confined to her room for more than forty years until removed by death. Upon her gravestone appears the following: "Adieu dear sister, fare thee well Thy trials now are o'er And thou art gone, we hope, to dwell Where pain and sickness come no more." After her forty years of suffering on earth we think the poet could safely have substituted in the third line of the epitaph some more positive expression for "we hope." 156 JUSTIN KING, (Ichabod,* Capt. Joseph,3 James,2 William1), born in Marlboro, Vt., March 7, 1784; died in Cincinnati, O., March 20, 1852; married (1) in Boston, Mass., Sept. 2, 1810, Ann (Cook) Morse, who died in Cincinnati, O., Nov. 5, 1819; (2) in Cincinnati, O., 1820, Ann -who died in Cincinnati, O., Aug. 9, 1833; (3) in Cincinnati, O., Aug. 2, 1835, Elizabeth Hunt. It is probable that the first wife of Justin King was the widow of Eleazer Morse at the time of her marriage to Justin King. It is known from Justin King's letters and the knowledge of descendants that she was Ann, the sister of Alice (Cook) Berry, for years of Wheeling, W. Va., who was probably daughter of Richard and Mary (Moshier) Cook -Richard a ropemaker in Boston, but the family home perhaps in Roxbury. It is further known that Charles Cook King, son of Justin King by his first wife, named two of his sons for John Morse and George Eleazer Morse who were probably his half-brothers. In "Records rel. to early hist. of Boston," containing Boston marriages from 1752 to 1809 is the following: "Eleazar Morse & Anna Cook (married by), Rev. Thomas Baldwin Nov. 26, 1801. (Intention of marriage reads Ann Cook.) Deaths in Boston from 1800 to 1810 taken from "Columbian Centinel" gives the death of Eleazer Morse, age 31, on March 9, 1810. Boston record gives marriage of Justin King to Ann Morse Sept. 2, 1810. On Feb. 3, 1811, Justin King wrote from Boston to his parents of the visit to them which he and his wife had just made, evidently a first visit on the part of the wife. Justin King went to Boston to live about 1805 but removed to Cincinnati, O., in 1815, where he lived until his death. The family drove from Boston to Cincinnati in forty-one days with one horse which served them excellently. They left Boston Sept. 4, 1815; stopped at Suffield, Conn., where they found "Aunt King very sick"; went through Wheeling, Janesville and Chilicothe and reached Cincinnati Oct. 14, 1815. Elizabeth Hunt, the third wife of Justin King, was a widow and, he writes, "half-niece of my first wife." ISSUE: 386 i. 387* ii. 388 iii. 389* iv. 390 V. 391 ANN, b. Boston; d. Feb. 5, 1817. ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 1, 1812; d. Feb. 7, 1891; m. CHARLES COOK, b. May 18, 1816; . June 3, 1880; MARY, b. Jany., 1818; d. about 1876, unmarried. During the latter part of her life she was blind. vi. ANN, (again), b. Aug. 25, 1819; d. Aug. 4, 1820. (Son, b. Feb. 2, 1821; d. Dec. 5, 1821-Another son, b. and d. April, 1823.) 392* vii. DANIEL ELEAZER, b. -; d. about 1860; m. Cov ington, Ky., Lizzie Hall. 158 3 2 IRA KING, (Ichabod, Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Marlboro, Vt., Sept. 7, 1788; died July 6, 1860, unmarried. "He was an invalid for more than half a century, unable to provide for himself and was supported by his parents and younger brother until called to his final rest." 159 3 POLLY KING, (Ichabod, Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Marlboro, Vt., Oct. 10, 1791; died June 27, 1865; married Jany. 19, 1815, Levi Howard. They had no children but brought up their nephew, Joseph Henry Hamilton (see No. 161), who had been early left fatherless and who became a son to them. He inherited from them their Marlboro, Vt., farm upon which he lived until his active days were over when he moved to West Brattleboro, Vt. His son now lives upon the old farm which commands a beautiful view. 160 3 HANNAH KING, (Ichabod, Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Marlboro, Vt., Nov. 16, 1793; died in Ludlow, Vt., June 25, 1867; married Dec. 26, 1820, Emory Powers, son of Josiah and Susanna (Parks) Powers, born in Marlboro, April 23, 1796; died in New York City June 9, 1863; buried at Ludlow, Vt. Children all born at Marlboro. ISSUE: i. DAUGHTER, died Marlboro, when three weeks old. iii. ELLIS KING POWERS, b. May 6, 1824; d. New York ISSUE: I MARY BULLOCK' Powers, b. New York City Feb. 1, 1876. 2 ELLIS BULLOCK POWERS, b. New York City Sept. 20, 1878. iv. HANNAH MARANDA POWERS, b. Nov. 1, 1825; d. Ludlow, Vt., Aug. 10, 1903; m. Wardsboro, Vt., May 3, 1848, Ira Willard Gale, son Ebenezer and Polly (Chamberlin) Gale, b. Windham, Vt., July 27, 1818. Mrs. Hannah Maranda (Powers) Gale was always called by her second name. She was one of the noteworthy women among the descendants of Ichabod King. Dignified, handsome, even majestic in appearance; a woman of thought and poise, with a reserved, quiet humor that was very attractive. She was of the Universalist faith. Her husband, a man who earned the regard of all, survives her. Residence, Ludlow, Vt. |
