CHARLIE WASHINGTON KING

 The following bio was taken from page 268 of the book entitled “Rusk County History” compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

 Transcribed by Shirley Koym

 Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas

 Charlie W. King married Mary Elizabeth Jackson in 1884 in Newnan, Georgia.  They made their home in Georgia until they moved to Venus, Texas, Johnson County, in 1895.  The move was made by train.  Charlie W. and Mary Elizabeth came to Texas with their children:  Bessie, Walker, Maggie, and Gertrude.  Charlie W. was a rancher in Johnson County, where four children were born – Ollie, Johnnie, Herbert, and Thelma.  The children went to school in a red schoolhouse called Buttermilk School.  Later they attended school in Venus, Texas.

 The family made plans to move to Rusk County, where Charlie W. had a brother, Dr. Nathan King, a country doctor here in Rusk County for forty years or more.

 Charlie W. bought a farm in Grandview Community, near what was called Beaver Lake.  A few months before moving to Rusk County, Charlie W.’s mother died in Newnan, Georgia.  He went back there and brought his daddy, Nathan King, Sr., to Johnson County and then on to Rusk County with them.  About two months after moving here, Nathan, Sr. died and was buried at Pleasant Hill.

 Walter King, the son we are interested in, was born in Georgia in 1887 and came to Johnson County, Texas, with his parents and sisters.  The family later moved to Rusk County where Walker met and married Edith Maurine Lloyd on January 26, 1911.  Edith was the daughter of Emory Lloyd II and Siddie Davis Lloyd.

 Walker and Maurine moved to Johnson County, where he worked on a ranch and at the Bewley Flour Mill in Ft. Worth, Texas.  Their first child, Travis Winston, was born in 1911.  They moved back to Rusk County in 1913 to the Lee Smith farm in Grandview Community.  Their second child, Sybil Elizabeth, was born there in 1914.  Then they moved to the Emory Lloyd farm in the Pleasant Hill Community, where their third child, Joe Graham was born in 1919.  The next move was to Clement, Oklahoma, where they lived until 1921.  They moved back to Rusk County – Farmers Institute – where they operated a grocery store and barbershop.  It was located across the railroad from the Farmers Institute School by the Lloyd Cotton Gin.

 Later Walker bought Charlie Brown’s farm, a quarter of a mile from the grocery, and farmed and worked in the barbershop.  Later he moved the barbershop into his home.

 Walker was well known for his story telling and the grandchildren enjoyed his jig dance routine, at which he was very good.

 Submitted by Daneen Dickeson Dean