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Subject: [KYF] NEWS: King Family, 1977, Whitley Co.

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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The Whitley Republican, Williamsburg, KY - (not dated - bet 1976-1978)
Heads Or Tales by Gene Siler
  King Mountain has been casting its benign shadow over Williamsburg since
1818, since Cox's Tavern and Cumberland River ferry were transformed to a
sleepy country village called Whitley Courthouse.
  As the pyramids of Egypt overshadow the desert, so does King Mountain
overshadow the river, the town, the people down at the foot of its pinnacle.
  Some years ago there was a King Grist Mill and a King Mill Dam.   But
these have been swept away in the floodtides of progress.
  I think it would be quite an honor to have a mountain or a mill or a dam
named after your family.   All three of these carry or once carried the name
of this King family.   So the Kings have a threefold honor.
  Don Longworth, who is a half King, today brought me a picture of the wife
and eight children of Dolphus King, his grandfather.   These have now made
their last journey across Cumberland River -- all but Nan King Jones who
still survives at Wofford.
  In the picture you will see standing, left to right, George King, Frank
King, Sid King, Nan Jones,Carrie Longworth, Ed King, and seated, Mary
Tuggle, Margaret King, the mother, and Henry King with his fierce moustache.
  And now I must tell you about Henry King, who ran the mill, who was an
orchardist, who was a lawyer.
  Well of course I did not say he looked like a lawyer -- certainly not.
How can a man run a grist mill, take care of an orchard and still look like
a lawyer.   Can't be done.
  But you know there are three kinds of lawyers -- the lubstery courtroom
lawyer -- the bookish office lawyer -- the yarn-gallused lawyer, who
communicates well with the people and spends much of his time on the
streets.   Henry King was a yarn-gallused lawyer.   Henry Gillis was a
bookish lawyer.   R.L. Pope was a blustery lawyer.   All of these Lawyers
once practiced law here in Williamsburg.
  If you can find some lawyer with all three of these traits -- blustery,
bookish, yarn-gallused -- you are pretty apt to win your case.   You will
have a dangerous advocate in court.
  My father was somewhat blustery, somewhat bookish and raised on Tackett
Creek so as to enable him to communicate with the people.   He was also an
excellent business man and could scent a lawyer fee or a successful business
enterprise like a hound scents a fox up on King Mountain.
  Some days ago a man brought me several documents and asked me to unravel
the situation and explain it to him.   Then he remarked, "I never knowed
anything about law - always worked for my living."
  It was quite a slur on lawyers, people who didn't work, but I ignored this
and helped him unravel his ball of twine.
  Some lawyers, like Henry King, did actually work for a living, like my
client had in mind.
  But mainly Henry left us King Mountain, King Mill, King Dam and so the
King family has this threefold honor.
  Ernest King was a famous US Admiral in World War II, Rufus King was a
signer of the US Constitution, Starr King was a mighty preacher and orator,
William R. King was a US Vice President and Dolphus King was the father of
our Whitley County Kings.
  Long live the Kings, especially our own Kings

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