LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Obit. - Mrs. Amy Elizabeth Miller King, 1943 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MRS. AMY ELIZABETH MILLER KING We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. 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. -------------- 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. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Martha Mewborn Marble ___________________________________________________________________