Notes for Alanson Knox KING

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Notes for Alanson Knox KING

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Alanson Knox King and Emeline Bishop were members of the Methodist Church
in which he was for many years a local preacher. he was a member of the
AF&AM. he died on March 15, 1877, worn out, broken down, no disease but
old age. The township of Kingston, Michigan was named in honor of him.

section from book on Kingston, Michigan sent to me by Kathryn Wegman:

ALANSON KING FAMILY

According to a family history printed in 1883. Alanson Knox King was
born June 8, 1810 in Massachusetts. He was a son of Captain Dr. Robert
King and Bridget (Morgan) King. Of Dr. Robert King's family of 11
children, two sons, Alanson and his brother, John Morgan, were a part of
our beginning history.
Alanson K. King and his son, Philo L. took up the south one half of
section 32 in the fall of 1857. In January, 1858, they came in and built
a log house and on March 5th, Mr. King moved in his family. They came
from Portage County, Ohio and stayed with George Green in Dayton from
January until March. In coming in they cut their own road--four miles to
their home. They remained there until the winter of 1861-62, when they
removed to Juanita, returning to Kingston in 1870.
Mr. King was an old and respected pioneer of Tuscola County. He
died in Kingston on the 4th of September, 1878 aged 68. Kingston
towenship and the village of Kingston are named after him. He and his
faithful wife, Emeline, endured all the privations and hardships to which
the early settlers were exposed. He left a family of seven, all married
and settled in comfortable homes.
Alanson K. King and his wife, a son, Wallace B. and a
daughter-in-law, Celia, are buried in the Kingston cemetery.
At the time of our centennial, Mrs. Mary McCormick was alive. She
was the dasughter of Wallace and granddaughter of Alanson. She was born
in February 16, 1868 and died in October of 1957. She was interviewed in
1950 by the Saginaw News. In that report she remembers much of the early
days of the community when "roads were cut through and cleared with
oxen," She recalls that she was just 15 when thr railroad was put
through the village. "There weren't many roads when I was real
young--just a few trails and the old lumber road three miles north."

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