Lenoir County, NC  Obituaries  Richard West King

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RICHARD WEST KING

Donated by Wilbur King from research of Susan Moody
Sunday, March 11, 1883 (no notation of paper) 

The burial of the late Richard W. King took place at 3 o'clock last 
Thursday evening. Service being conducted by Rev. Israel Harding, of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Kinston. He was buried in the 
family graveyard adjoining the Kinston cemetery. A large concourse of 
people white and colored, followed the remains to the grave. Years ago 
he had been baptized into the faith of the Christian Religion by a 
minister of the Disciples Church. How he kept that faith, it is no wish 
of ours, to judge. 

The iron safe of the late R. W. King was opened last Friday morning in 
the presence of Anthony David, Esq. who is the only surviving executor 
of the Will, the late A. G. Hubbard of New Berne, being the other 
executor. Thirteen Thousand dollars in cash and Twelve thousand dollars 
in well secured notes were found in the safe. His widow, Mrs. Susan 
King, gets that portion of his estate assigned by the law. His adopted 
Son, R. W. King, comes in for a special legacy of $500 in cash and a 
plantation in Lenoir County on the south side of the Neuse River valued 
at $2000. Miss Kate Brown gets a special legacy of $1500. The two 
oldest children of Wm. W. N. Hunter get each $500. Mrs. Young's two 
children get $200 each. Mrs. Mary Hunter, widow of Nicholas Hunter, 
gets $1000. Mrs. Sophia West divides equally the balance of the estate. 
Wm. Hunter and Mrs. Tiffany West, two of the children coming in for a 
town lot each, more than the other children. The estate is valued at 
$80,000. Of this $50,000 is real estate and $30,000 is personal 
property.

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