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William V. King was born in Anderson District, S. C., March 9, 1832, and is a son of Lyndon and Nancy (Hughes) King, natives of North Carolina and Virginia, respectively. His maternal grandfather, William Hughes, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The father was married in South Carolina, where he lived for several years after. He later moved to Paulding County, Ga., and there died in 1857. In Georgia William V. passed his youth, and when of age married. Laura Morrison, a native of Henderson County, N. C., became his wife in September, 1860, and is now the mother of seven children: Mary Jane, wife of H. C. Peters; Martha, wife of J. W. Taff; Cornelia, James T., I. M., Henry L. and Emma. In 1861 Mr. King enlisted in the Third Brigade of Col. Stephen’s division, and served until the close of the war. He was in the fight at Tazewell, Tenn., August 6, 1862, and at Baker’s Creek, Chickamauga, Resaca, New Hope and the siege of Atlanta. While on detached duty, in 1864, he was taken prisoner, and held the remainder of the time at Fort Delaware. In 1871 he returned to his family in Georgia, and in the fall of that year came to Arkansas, and homesteaded land in Franklin County. He now owns 180 acres of land, which he has purchased at different times, and has fifty acres in a fine state of cultivation. Mr. King is a member of the Masonic fraternity.