LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Obit. - Mrs. Amy Elizabeth Miller King, 1943
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MRS. AMY ELIZABETH MILLER KING
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Heritage Place, Lenoir Community College, Kinston, North Carolina; Vertical
File # - King 11520-3
Copied from the original in the Hyatt Collection
Kinston Free Press - Thursday - month unclear - 28, 1943
RITES, MRS. AMY KING HELD NEW BERN WEDNESDAY, MEMBER, PROMINENT FARMLY
The funeral of Mrs. Amy Elizabeth Miller King, 90, widow of Frank King
of Woodington Township, Lenoir County, who died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. T. F. Tyson in New Bern, was held from the Tyson home at
11 am Wednesday, with burial in a New Bern Cemetery. Members of the
First Church of Christ Scientist, of which she was a member, officiated.
Wilbur Cummings, second reader, was assisted by Nathan Gooding, in
conducting the ceremony.
Grandsons were all bearers - Burrell Stroud, Marion Joyner, Joe
Gwaltney, Bob Tyson, William Gwaltney and Frank Noble.
Mrs. King was a daughter of the late John Parker and Elizabeth Rouse
Miller, who were killed in a race uprising in June1 1867. They left six
small children, Amy, Nettie, John, Willie, Frank and Nunn. Frank and
Nunn lived and died in Lenoir County, John and Willie moved to the West.
All left families. Mrs. King was reared by her grandmother, Mrs. Nunn
Miller. Her parents were among 50 local persons killed in the time of
terror which was the Reconstruction period.
Surviving with her sister, Mrs. Nettie Tilghman of Kinston are six
daughters, Mrs. Estelle Stroud, Mrs. Charles Noble, and Mrs. Clyde
Morton of Kinston, Mrs. Claude Gwaltney, Mrs. Frances Bland and Mrs.
Tyson of New Bern. Her late grandfather, Nunn Miller, was one of the
largest slaveholders in the South and owned the largest Plantation in
Lenoir County. Persons who knew Mrs. King described her as a kindly,
honest and industrious woman, devoted to her family and her religion.
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Update by Bill Tilghman" wat@metricsinc.com
I have some updated and correct information for you. The date that the
obituary appeared in the Kinston Daily Free Press was Thursday, November
11, 1943 and not the 28th. She died on Tuesday, November 9, 1943. I
looked and looked for the obituary on the 28th of every month in 1943
and there was not a posting for Amy King. Went back to the Hyatt
Collection and found Sybil's clipping. Went to ECU and printed out the
obituary for verification. Now, the obituary is not correct with regards
to her age of 90 I don't believer. She died in 1943. If she was 90 then
this would have put her being born in 1853. Not possible, since her
parents John Parker and Elizabeth Rouse Miller were not married until
March of 1855. Amy was the oldest child of my great-great grandparents.
My great grandmother was Nettie Miller Tilghman. I have the date of Amy's
birth as Feb 21, 1856. I plan to go to Craven County and get her death
certificate to see if this matches what I have. I will keep you posted.
I am trying to verify and find out the births and deaths of these six
children. I have Amy, Nunn, Nettie and Franklin completed. John and
William moved out west. When Franklin died in 1937, William was living
in California. John never married and moved out west somewhere. These
two may not be as easy to track down.
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