Elizabeth Thomson Stirling
By 1920, three of their children were still living at home with Elizabeth and George [07], and the 1930 census finds the two living alone together in Lake Charles [08]. Elizabeth and her family were very active in the local Methodist Church. George King passed away in 1935 and his wife Elizabeth followed him in death in 1940. Their final resting place is in the Orange Grove Cemetery, Lake Charles [02].
[01] A History of Louisiana (vol. 2), p. 268, by Henry E. Chambers, Published by The American Historical Society, Inc.1925
[02] Descendants of Rev. Cyrus Armstrong King and Wife, Frances Ellen Perkins, by Charles S. King, 1985
[03] 1870 US Census, Ward 4, Ft. Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, June 24, 1870, Page No. 37
[04] 1880 US Census, Lincoln Township, Jasper County, Missouri, June 5, 1880
[05] 1910 US Census, Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles City, Louisiana, City Ward 4, 1605 Ryan St., April 6, 1910
[06] 1900 US Census, Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles City, Louisiana, City Ward 3, Cole St., June 11, 1910
[07] 1920 US Census, Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles City, Louisiana, City Ward 4, Police Jury Ward 3, Ryan St, Jan 1910
[08] 1930 US Census, Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles City, Louisiana, City Ward 4, 1605 S. Ryan St., April 11, 1930
Corine V. Terwilliger b. 14 May 1890
d. 10 Aug 1939
Edna Lucille King
b. 09 Mar 1895
d. 1981
Ruth Perkins b. 08 Sep 1901
d. 17 Oct 1980
Dewey Ephreham Chapman b. 1895
d. 1968
George Milton Chitwood
Milton Dickson Chitwood
b. 10 Feb 1876
d. 21 Nov 1937
George Merritt King, Jr.
b. 26 Mar 1887
d. 15 Aug 1931
Frances Birdine King
b. 02 Aug 1884
Myrtle LaRue
Alvin Olin King
b. 21 Jun 1890
d. 21 Feb 1958
Jean King
Jean Larue King
Voris King
Milton Dickson Chitwood, Jr.
Jean Myriel King
b. 14 May 1899
d. 13 mar 1968
Ruth Perkins King
Elizabeth Chitwood
Violet Florence Holman b. 19 Jul 1902
d. 13 Nov 1979
Albion Stirling King b. 24 Aug 1901
d. 10 Feb 1947
Willie Lee Voris b. 30 Mar 1895
d. 20 Jan 1959
Cyrus Arthur King
b. 15 Oct 1892
d. 01 Apr 1967
Edna Elizabeth Chapman
Dewey E. Chapman, Jr.
Alvin Olin King, Jr.
Elizabeth Thomson Stirling
b. 04 Dec 1863
d. 03 Jan 1940
George Merritt King, III
Virginia Ann King
Van Holman King
George Merritt King
b. 25 Apr 1862
d. 29 Aug 1935
Betsy Bee King
Cyrus Arthur King II
Mary Kathryn King
Elizabeth Thompson Stirling, John and Rebecca Stirling’s first daughter was born in the Cincinnati Ohio area on December 4, 1863. Within a short period of time, her family moved to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and her sister Elvira was born about three years after Elizabeth [03]. Elizabeth’s parents separated, probably in the mid 1870s, and mother Rebecca and her two daughters show up next on an 1880 Jasper County, Missouri census [04]. Soon after, the family is found living in Parsons, Kansas, at the home of her brother A.O. Brown. Sister Elvira attended school here for a short period of time and it is also mentioned in her uncle’s obituary that Elizabeth was raised by the A.O. Brown family there in Parsons.
It was in Parsons where 19 year old Elizabeth met her husband, George Merritt King whose family was originally from Maine. They were married at her uncle A.O.’s house on June 28, 1883 with George’s father, minister Cyrus Armstrong King officiating [02]. Within about ten years, Elizabeth and George King had four children born in different parts of Kansas [04].
George King was one of the men responsible for transforming Lake Charles into a major commercial and industrial center. By 1925, his credits included being secretary-treasurer of the Powell Lumber Company, the Weber King Lumber Company, and the Farmer’s Land & Canal Company. He was also treasurer of the Farmers Rice Milling Company, and a director of the Calcesieu National Bank of Southwest Louisiana [01]. George’s father Reverend Cyrus Armstrong King was one of the men responsible for organizing the Simpson Methodist Church in 1890. Cyrus King and his wife Frances Perkins are both originally from Maine, and he officiated at the marriages of all of his children and some of his grandchildren [02].
GEORGE MERRITT KING
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Elizabeth and George’s third son, Alvin Olin King attended business college at Parsons, Kansas, graduated from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and was elected to the Louisiana State Senate from Calcasieu Parish in 1924. In 1932, when Huey Long vacated the governorship for his seat in the United States Senate, Alvin Olin King replaced him as governor of Louisiana for the five months remaining in Long’s elected term [01].
ELIZABETH ( BESSIE ) STIRLING
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