Coffee-Pike County AlArchives Obituaries.....King, Hiram Alexander "Sandy" December 23, 1937
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Obituary Collection of Kathlyn J Folmar, undated item
MEMORIAM TO HIRAM ALEXANDER “SANDY” KING (b. 11-8-1856 – d. 12-23-1937) 
written by M. L. Beck of Glenwood, Ala., 12-29-1937

	When in Troy [Alabama, Pike County] a few days ago, someone told me that
“Sandy” King had just died in one of the city’s hospitals.  I knew I had lost a
friend who had been true for many years.  My first recollection of “Uncle
Sandy,” as we all called him in his later years, was at his marriage when I was
only eight years of age.
	Mr. King went into the woods, settled and built a home a mile or two from my
father’s home.  From then he became our neighbor and friend; and I can say
candidly no better man have I ever known.  As a young husband, he was a hard and
diligent worker, hewing out his home in the primeval forest.  I have heard my
father remark that Sandy King would work hard all day, eat supper, and walk
several miles to sit up with a sick person in the community.  If any family had
met with disaster, such as homes being burned or continued sickness, he was
among the first to offer his means or labor toward its relief.
	Along about the time of his marriage, my family was stricken with fever.  From
the malady, my oldest sister died one day and my mother passed on the next.  I,
together with a brother, was too sick to see either one after they were dead. 
Mr. King was with the family continually, through the many days of sickness and
bereavement, and was drawn to us by ties that have held for more than half a
century.
	When I was a young man just starting out in life, through his and his brother
Allen’s influence, I secured a three months public school to be taught at Bluff
Springs in Coffee County [Alabama].  The school began about the first of
January.  On Monday at the beginning, the door of the little log hut in which I
was to teach was entered by my bending down about a fourth of my height.  That
day we had a heavy winter rain, and the teacher, the children, and all the books
were thoroughly wet.  The next day we moved into the Baptist church which was a
few steps from the little log school building and had school.  As is usual at
that season of the year, the next day was very cold.  There was neither
fireplace nor heater in the church, and when we would become so cold we could
stand it no longer, we would go out in the yard and warm and get smoked by a
pine-knot fire.  When I returned to my boarding place that night, which was in
the home of the late Elder Hiram King, father of the subject of this notice and
one of the best men it has ever been my pleasure to know, Mr. Sandy and Mr.
Allen King called on me and stated I would not go back to Bluff Springs the next
day but would do my third day’s teaching in my third house, at County Line [area
of Coffee County and Pike County dividing line].  They said we would not have a
public school but a private, or pay, school.
	They pledged me their full support, and I pledged them the best that was in me.
 One of them went back to Bluff Springs and got my bell and box of crayon, the
total of my material equipment, and thus began one of the most enthusiastic
schools the community has ever known.  And to this day I look back and reverence
the hearty support, the kind and needed encouragement, and the fatherly and
loving advice given me by Mr. King.  He was my friend and was from the time I
was eight years old until his recent death.
	Mr. King was born Nov. 8th, 1856.  [His mother was Elizabeth Hutto King.]  In
1878, he was married to Iola Jackson.  After 12 years lived happily together,
she passed on.  Later, he married Miss Fannie Johnson, who also preceded him in
death.  To the first union were born five children:  Mrs. W. H. Wise, Mrs. J. J.
Beard, Mrs. W. M. Williford, living, and Shelby and Salena, deceased.  The three
children of his second marriage are Mrs. T. J. Wilson, Mrs. C. S. Bruce, and A.
S. (Alto) King.  Forty one grandchildren and thirty seven great grandchildren
survive him.  He passed Dec. 23, 1937.  A good man, devoted friend, a worthy
citizen has gone to his rest, and we will add these lines:
“Rest, weary heart,
From all thy silent griefs and secret pain.
Wisdom and love have ordered all the past,
All shall be blessedness and joy at last;
Cast off the cares that have long oppressed,
Rest, sweetly rest.”

	

Additional Comments:
Comments by Contributor, Alice Folmar Kelley:
     Mr. Hiram "Sandy" King’s first wife, Iola Nebraska Jackson King, was the
sister of my great-grandfather William Marion Jackson.  She and Sandy King
married on Dec. 12, 1878, and they had the following children: Emma Nebraska,
born 1879; Nettie Eldora, born 1882; Shelby Jackson, born 1884; Frances Salena,
born 1888; and Arkie Sabina, born 1890.  Iola died Oct. 9, 1890.  She and Sandy
were both buried at Hopewell Community Cemetery in Pike County, Ala., across the
road from Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church.
	Sandy King’s brother Robert Allen King – the Allen mentioned in the Memoriam –
married Sandy’s wife’s sister Emily Aneliza Jackson.  
	My Mother, Kathlyn Johnson Folmar, grew up on the road from Hopewell Primitive
Baptist Church to County Line – living some on both sides of the line.  She once
told me about the illness and death of her grandmother Rosella Taylor Myers at
County Line and said, “Mr. Sandy King was a neighbor that lived nearby … He was
very helpful in sickness …”
	She also included him in reference to their neighbors:  “Our neighbors at
County Line included Grandpa [John Baptist Myers], the Arkus Helms family, Mr.
Sandy King (don’t know who was in his family then), Carl and Foy King Bruce and
family, a Layton family … she was named Esterbelle I think and had a son Noah,
don’t know Mr. Layton’s name.  The Worrell family lived across from us one year,
ran into the daughter Eugenia about three years ago after over 60 years.  She
married a Raybon and lives near Brantley.  The Tyler family lived near us one
year.  I think the daughter Malvina was born that year. … Tyrus Wilson and his
wife Ethel King ran a store near us, just above/north of the two-room County
Line school. …” 


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