Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....King, Paul S. July 20 1849 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    PAUL S. KING, a leading citizen of Leighton, and a member of the mercantile
house of F. R. King & Co., the largest house of the kind in the place, was born
in Lawrence county, Ala., July 20, 1849. He is the son of Hartwell R. and Mary
H. (Smith) King, the former of whom was a native of Wake county, N. C., born in
1820, and the latter of Lauderdale county, Ala., born in 1830. She is the
daughter of John and Susan Smith. The grandfather of Paul S. King was Hartwell
King, a native of North Carolina, who reared a large family and died before the
war. His widow died in 1871 aged eighty-eight years. The father of Mr. King
entered the Confederate service as a member of Captain Parker Rand's company and
served until the close of the war. He died December 11, 1872, and his widow
still lives. There were eight sons and one daughter born to them, three of the
sons and the daughter being still alive, viz.: Paul S. and F. R., of Leighton,
W. O., living in the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn., and Susie, wife of George
Gilchrist, of Courtland, Ala. Paul S. King was reared in Lawrence county on the
farm. His early education was secured at the common schools, and he then
graduated from Bryant & Stratton's business college in St. Louis in 1870. The
same year he commenced business as a general merchant at Leighton, where he has
ever since remained in the same business and has also carried on farming and
stock raising to a considerable extent. While Mr. King has never been an
aspirant for public office he has always taken an active interest in politics
and public affairs of the county and state, and has rendered his party
assistance both in time and money. In politics he is a democrat, and he is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, of the Knights of Pythias and of the Knights
of Honor. He was married in 1876 to Miss Debbie E. Simmons of Iuka, Miss. She
died December 25, 1879, leaving two children, one of whom survives. In 1882 Mr.
King married Miss Steppi L. Pickett, daughter of Judge R. O. Pickett, of
Florence, Ala., and by this marriage has four sons.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 694-695


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