King Family - Gandma Lytle's mother's family

1850 Census; Jasper County, Texas:

1.  Willliam King   49 M Mechanic NY
 Laurana King   34 F wife FL
 Joseph Herrald 19 M bro-in-law FL
 Olive Herrald  54 F mother-in-law GA
 Nancy Herrald  16 F sis-in-law GA
 Junior King    7  M son FL (William Leamon King)
 Nicholas King  3  M son TX
Frederick King 1  M son TX

Notice that the wife's siblings and mother are here 
     but their last name is spelled wrong

    KING, William                                                
Born: 1801      New York                                   
Died: Bef. 1880

Married: HARRELL, Lorena or Laureney
   or Lurana, or  Laurana
   She was born: Aug 1816 in Florida
   They married:  Abt 1841  in Jackson,FL,USA
   She died:      11 February 1903 San Angelo,TX
   Her father: William HARRELL
   Birth place not reported
   Death: 1840 in Mt.Vernon,Washington Co. FL,USA
   Marriage 1 Olive FOWLER born: Abt 1796 in GA/NC,USA
   Married: Before 1816 in Florida, USA

Children of William King and Lorena Harrell

2. William Leamon KING b: 15 MAR 1843 in  FL,USA
Nicholas KING b: 1847 in TX,USA
Frederick KING b: Abt 1849 in Caldwell Co TX,USA
Cornelia KING b: 18 MAY 1853 in Beaumont,Jasper Co.,TX,USA
Louise M. KING b: Abt 1854
Cora Luana KING b: 12 MAY 1858 in Jasper,Jasper Co.,TX,USA

Name: William Leamon KING
Birth: 15 MAR 1843 in FL,USA
Death: 20 AUG 1909 in San Angelo,Tom Green Co.,TX,USA
Burial: Fairmount Cem,San Angelo,Tom Green Co.,TX,USA
Census: 12 JUL 1870 Subdivison 23,Jasper Co.,TX,USA

He was railroad shopman, Locomotive engineer.

Marriage 1 Amanda Elizabeth PHELPS
Name: Amanda Elizabeth PHELPS
Birth: 22 MAR 1846 in ,Caldwell Parish,LA,USA
Death: 26 Feb 1875 in Franklin, Robertson, TX
MAR: Oct 27 1861 Texas

Children of William Leamon King and Amanda Elizabeth Phelps

Taphena Elizabeth KING b: 12 SEP 1864 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
Belvedere "Bellvey" KING b: 19 AUG 1867 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
Julia Saphronia KING b: 11 JUL 1869 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
William Downing KING b: 30 NOV 1871 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
Louvenia Amaryntha (Ama) KING b: 21 DEC 1873 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
(our great grandmother)

William L. King
Enlisted 12-21-1861
24th Texas Cavalry Regt. (Confederate)
Company E
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Film Number M227 roll 20

24th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Wilkes') (2nd Texas Lancers)
24th Cavalry Regiment [also called 2nd Texas Lancers]
completed its organization during the late spring of 1862.
Men of this unit were recruited in Mueces, Comanche, Waller,
Montgomery, and Karnes counties.

It was soon dismounted and sent to Arkansas. Here the
regiment was captured at Arkansas Post in January, 1863.

Grandpa King was held at the Union Prisioner of War camp at
Camp Butler, Illinois until exchanged at City Point, VA on
May 26, 1863. On June 30, 1863 he was reported as "absent,
in hospital at Petersburg, Virginia"

After being exchanged, it was consolidated with the 17th, 18th,
and 25th Texas Cavalry Regiments (dismounted) and assigned
to Deshler's, J.A. Smith's, and Granbury's Brigade.

This command fought with the Army of Tennessee from
Chickamauga to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter operations in
Tennessee, and ended the war in North Carolina.

The 24th was organized with about 900 men and reported 54
casualties of the 587 engaged at Arkansas Post.

The 17th/18th/24th/25th reported 200 disabled at Chickamauga
and totalled 690 men and 520 arms in December, 1863.

Few surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were
Colonels William A. Taylor and Franklin C. Wilkes,
and Lieutenant Colonels Robert R. Neyland and
Patrick H. Swearingen.

Grandpa King's unit was transfered to the 1st Regt. Texas
Infantry then serving in Virginia.

1st Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia,
in August, 1861, with ten companies from Marion, Cass, Polk,
Houston, Harrison, Tyler, Anderson, Cherokee, Sabine,
San Augustine, Newton, and Nacogdoches counties.

Later (1863) two companies from Galveston and Trinity County
were added to the command. Part of Hood's Texas Brigade,
it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J.Gregg.

The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from
Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with
Longstreet at Suffolk,  Chickamauga, and Knoxville.

It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south
of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign.

This unit had 477 effectives in April, 1862 and lost eighty-two
percent of the 226 engaged at Sharpsburg and more than twenty
percent of the 426 at Gettysburg.

It surrendered with 16 officers and 133 men. The field officers
were Colonels Frederick S. Bass, Hugh McLeod, Alexis T. Rainey,
and Louis T. Wigfall; Lieutenant Colonels Harvey H. Black,
Albert G. Clopton, R.J. Harding, and P.A. Work; and Majors Matt.
Dale and John R. Woodward.

1863 - A Confederate attempt to rescue Vicksburg and a Rebel
garrison held back by Union forces to the east of the city fails
when Union troops turn back the attack.
By late May 1863, Union General Ulysses S. Grant had surrounded
Vicksburg, the last major Confederate possession on the
Mississippi River. In one of the more remarkable campaigns of the
war, Grant had slipped his army around the city, dove toward the
middle of Mississippi, and then bottled up Vicksburg from the east.
He held off one Confederate army while pinning another,
commanded by John C. Pemberton, in the city.
Grant then laid siege and waited for surrender.
Since Grant's army was holding off Rebel forces to the east of
Vicksburg, the Confederates would have to come from across the
Mississippi to stage a rescue attempt.

General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the South's
Trans-Mississippi Department, dispatched a force under
Richard Taylor to attack Federal supply lines on the western
side of the river. Taylor aimed the assault at Milliken's Bend,
once a key supply point for the Union forces, just north of Vicksburg.
Unfortunately for the Confederates, the Yankees had already
moved the supply point several miles away.
Before dawn on June 7, the advancing Confederates encountered
Union pickets and began driving them back toward the river.

But once the Yankee defenders were backed up to the Mississippi,
U.S.S. Choctaw, Lieutenant Commander Ramsay, and
U.S.S. Lexington, Lieutenant Commander Bache, defended Union
troops, blasting the Rebels with grapeshot and canister.
The Confederates withdrew, while Federal gunboats broke up
nearby attacks before they could materialize.

Confederate losses stood at 44 killed, 131 wounded, and
10 missing; the Union suffered much heavier losses: 101 killed,
285 wounded, and 266 missing. Hardest hit were the newly formed
African-American regiments that were made up of freed slaves from
captured areas in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The 9th Louisiana lost 45 percent of its force.

Army of Northern Virginia
General Robert E. Lee, Commanding
First Army Corps.
Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet.
Gregg's Brigade.
Brig. Gen. John Gregg.
3d Arkansas,
Col. Van H. Manning.
1st Texas,
4th Texas.
Col. John P. Bane.
5th Texas,
Lieut. Col. King Bryan.

Marriage 2 Clara O. KEATING b: Abt 1862 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA
* Married: 28 DEC 1878 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA

Marriage 3 Martha A. QUICK b: Abt 1860 in Atlanta,,GA,USA
- this is the lady who on 8-26-1914 applied for Grandpa's Army Pension.
* Married: 17 FEB 1881 in ,,TX,USA

Children of W.L.King and Martha

1. Cornelia Agnes KING b: 29 AUG 1882 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA
2. John Hubert KING       b: 15 FEB 1884 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA

3. KING, Louvenia Amyrintha                  
b:December 22, 1873     Franklin, Robertson Co, TX
d:April 15, 1960 at San Angelo, Tom Green Co, TX   
M:ADNEY, William Alexander Wilford (WW Adney)
Born: March 17, 1872  Yell Co., Arkansas
Died : 1909 at San Angelo

4. Julia Gladys Adney  1899