Tarrant County, TX - Obituaries - M.B. King **************************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************************** The White Man Weatherford, Parker County, Texas Saturday, Sept. 15, 1860 M.B. King It will be remembered that M.B. King, a lawyer, formerly of Birdville, and who afterwards resided at Belknap, was hung on the Clear Fork of Brazos by Hugh Harper, Rufus Oliphant and John Maxwell. The Belton Democrat has been led into an error by some means, as it speaks of King as an Òabolitionist, incendiary, lawyer,Ó and seems to think that it was very well to get rid of him. We never knew anything of Mr. King that would lead to the belief that he was not a gentleman. In Birdville, he was well known and at a public meeting there, Mr. King was spoken of as an honorable man, and a gentleman; nor can we hear of any one who can point to one single act of his life that was dishonest. The men who murdered him excepted, and they say he was a desperate character, attempted to poison Maxwell, &c., &c. The truth is it was a cold blooded murder, and there is not one single mitigating circumstance connected with it. King was led out by a parcel of pirates and hung, without a shadow of excuse, and left hanging for three days. Some cow hunters found his body and gave it a kind of burial, that is, dragged it into a ravine and threw some limbs upon it. We saw the grave if it can be called such, and hope never to see such another; every tree within several hundred yards was filled with buzzards, and the half devoured body was plainly visible. Such was the fate of an inoffensive, harmless man, whose only crime was, that he was too weak to defend himself against his murderers.