My Genealogy Hound

E. T. King is a son of Alvin and Martha (Thomas) King and was born in 1843. The parents were born in North Carolina, and came to Tennessee after their marriage. The father was quite a prosperous farmer and died in Gibson County shortly before our subject’s birth. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his wife was a Missionary Baptist, and died in 1870. At the age of twenty our subject enlisted in the Confederate Service, Forty-seventh Tennessee Regiment, and served until wounded at Atlanta, Ga., in 1864. After being in the hospital three months he returned home not to serve any more. He located in Rutherford and engaged in the grocery and liquor business, and then for about five years sold dry goods. In 1867 he married Sallie A. Hopper, a daughter of A. C. and Ollie B. Hopper. She is a native of Tennessee, born in 1849, and became the mother of three children, two of whom are dead. Mrs. King died in 1878, and in 1880 Mr. King married Maggie Calhoun, who was born in 1854. Her parents are Thomas and Sallie (Wilson) Calhoun. Since giving up the dry goods business Mr. King has followed farming, and owns 210 acres of well improved land, on which he located in 1870. He inherited some money from his father’s estate, but the most of his property has been gained by his own exertion. He is a Mason and a Democrat.