Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....King, Jacob November 13, 1912
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, November 14, 1912
Jacob King, who has lived in Ionia county nearly seventy years, died 
Wednesday, November 13, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grant Steele.  He 
was born in New York State, September 8, 1830, and came to Michigan with his 
parents in 1835.  For a few years the family lived in Calhoun county, moving 
to Orleans township where they arrived February 14, 1842.

October 21, 1855 he married Charlotte M. Holcomb, who died December 11, 1905.  
To them were born three children, Nate G. King, who lives at Lakeview, 
Michigan; Lila, wife of E. E. Chapple, who died in 1886; Ella, now Mrs. Grant 
Steele of Belding.  

In 1866 he bought the farm now owned by W. C. Spicer on the state road in the 
west part of the city, selling it in 1885 and moving to Ionia.  Most of these 
years he was engaged in lumber operations, locating timber lands and acting as 
foreman of lumber camps, working for Wilson, Luther & Wilson, Ambrose Atwood 
and the Lovelands.

He enlisted in Company H, 10th Michigan volunteer cavalry and served until 
honorably discharged June 14, 1865.  He joined the Masonic order at Greenville 
in 1873, and later became a charter member of Belding Lodge.  He has been an 
earnest, consistent Christian many years and was a member of the Central M. E. 
Church, Belding, at the time of his death.

He is survived by a son, a daughter, five grandchildren, two brothers and four 
sisters.  The funeral will be held at the home of his daughter Friday 
morning.  Rev. G. W. Maxwell officiating; burial at Highland Park Cemetery, 
Ionia.  The bearers will be his four nephews, Dan King, Will Cobb, George 
Wiley and Judd King.


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