Re: Found * Looking for John Shadrick Kings Family.

Hi Brenda,

As I said on the reply for your Miller family, this group is a tough one to track.Keep inmind as you read this reply that their ages jump around & their place of birth changes with each census but I believe it is your King family group. Seems your William H. King was really born 30 Oct 1896 per his WW1 Draft Registration.

Looks like your John Shadrick King was really
Johnson Shadrack King or Shadrack Johnson King depending on the census year. You have it spelled Shadrick but I have never seen it spelled that way. It was common for the two first names to get switched around.

Keep an open mind and you will see how the 'dots connect'. Such as William's sister Mabel md a Walter Guy.And you mentioned in another query a Burnhart connect, William's sister Jessie M. md George Barnhart. I will add my notes at the bottom of each census year. If you want a nice clean copy of this reply, just go to the bottom of the page and click on 'print message' and then click 'print'.It will print out a copy without all the graphics and with date,my email printed at the top.Nice to put in your research binder for future reference.

1930 PA, Fayette Co, German Twp, h/h 121
King, William35 md @23 bn PA
, Myrtle 26 md @16 bn PA
, Benjamin 9
, Virginia 8
, William jr 7
, Carl 48/12
, Myrtle 26/12
, Betty 9/12
All children are listed as born in PA.William works in the Coal Mine.

1920 PA, Fayette Co, German Twp, pg 137B, h/h 103
King, J. S. 73, md, bn WV, Contractor, Coal Mine
Guy, Walter 34, Md, bn WV (son in law)
, Mable 33, bn PA (wife/written over daughter)
, Mildred 14 bn PA
, Nathenia 4 bn PA
, Lydia 2 7/12 bn PA
, William H. 23, sgl, bn PA, miner/Coal mine (son)
, Joseph 20, sgl, bn PA, miner/Coal mine (son)
Although J. S. King is listed as married, their is no wife listed. All relationships refer to head of household. Walter Guy is his son in law.Mable was listed daughter but wife was written over it.Mable is the daughter of J. S. King and the wife of Walter Guy. The 3 young kids are their children. In error William H & Joseph are written here as if their surname is Guy but it should be King. Both being the sons of J. S. King. This is supported by the 1900 census listing below.

1910: I cannot locate William King with his parents.But on William's 1918 WW1 Draft registration he lists Jennie King as his closest relative.No notation is listed to show how they are related.But Jennie is used as a nickname for Virginia often, I wonder if he was living with his mother?? On the 1910 PA census William's father S.J. King has married again a very young women.Or maybe William was married before he married Myrtle Guy??

1910 PA, Fayette Co, German twp, dist 34, pg 117B
h/h 103
King, S. J.64, MD2, bn MD
, Blanche 18 bn PA (wife)

h/h 104
Barnhart, George 28 bn PA, md 7yrs
, Jessie 28 md 7yrs, 3kids/3alive
, Myrtle 6
, Ruth 3
, Viola 1
Guy, Walter H. 25 bn WV (bro in law)
, Mabel 22 bn PA (sis in law)
, Mildred 4 bn PA (neice)
*notice now S. J. King is listed as born in MD. He is with another wife. Although this shows him as married twice, this really is his 3rd wife. Living next door is his two married daughters. In h/h 104 relationship of the Guy family is referring to head of household, George Barnhart.

The 1900 census is where it all comes together. And you can tell this is the same man as J.S. King or S.J. King on the prior censuses by his age & names/ages of his children.

1900 PA, Fayette Co, Union twp, pg 160A
King, Shadric 53 bn June 1846 PA, md 14yrs
, Adie 40 bn Dec 1859 PA, md 14yrs, 10 kids/ 8 alive
, Jessie M. 12 bn Jan 1888
, Mabel 11 bn apr 1889
, Harry O. 9 bn aug 1890
, Nellie B. 8 bn Mar 1891
, William H. McK 2 bn Oct 1897
, Joseph R. bn apr 1900
All listed as born in PA. Not sure about the McK on William's name. They ran out of room to write more.Maybe his name was William H. Mc----- King, having two middle names?The only thing consistant with Shadrack is his age, his place of birth has now been listed as MD,PA,WV.

1880 WV, Mineral Co, Keyser twp, h/h 277
King, S. J. 35 bn WV
, Mary A. 45 bn WV (wife)
Harvey, Mintine 10 female, bn WV, (cousin)

1870 WV, Mineral Co, New Creek, pg 626, h/h 70
King, Shadrack J.24 bn VA
, Mary A. 37 bn VA
Rawlings, Sanford 33 bn VA
relationships are not noted on the 1870 census. But we know from the 1880 that Mary A. is his wife.

S. Johnson King 23
son of Jesse King & Lucinda
married Mary Ann Welch 37
29 Nov 1869
WV, Mineral County
From the Marriage records of Mineral County, WV.
This is where the 'connect the dots' comes in. Really lucked here. He is listed as S. Johnson King (with an age) on his marriage record. Listed as Shadrack J. King on the 1870 census & S. J. King on the 1880 census....So you can tell its all the same man. And you have his parents names now.Shadrack married a woman 14 years older and based on the census records they had no children together.May be why he didnt 'count' this marriage.

1880 WV, Mineral Co, New Creek, pg 143a,
h/h 518
King, Israel T. 30 bn MD
, Mary A.28 bn WV
, Julius C. bn WV
, O. Blanche 2 bn WV
h/h 519
King, Jessie 61 bn WV
, Ludinda 58 bn WV
, Susan M. 23 bn MD
, Abraham 19 bn WV
, Joseph 17 bn WV.

1870 WV, Mineral Co, New Creek, pg 627
King, Jessie51 bn VA
, Lucinda 47 bn VA
, Israel T. 21 bn MD
, Susan M. 14 bn MD
, Ruhanna 12 bn MD (spelling on name?)
, Abraham 10 bn MD
, Joseph 7 bn MD
This is the parents & siblings of Shadrack Johnson King. Jessie is indexed as Isac but when I viewed the film image it looked more like Jessie to me.
Susan M. (26) md Henry Solomon (28) 18 sept 1882 in Mineral Co, WV. I believe this Ruhanna (?) is a miss spelling and is really the same Anna J. King d/o of Jessie & Lucinda King that md Samuel T. White 07 Feb 1877 in WV, Mineral County. Anny on the 1860 census.

1860 VA, Hampshire Co, Western Dist, New Creek Station,
pg 300, h/h 3
King, Jessee 44
, Lucinda 37
, Johnson 16 (this is your Johnson Shadrack)
, Israel 14
, Susan 12
, Anny 4
, Abraham 1
All listed as born in VA.The ages of Johnson, Israel, Susan &Anny are goofed up here. The 1870 & 1880 census ages are most correct.

1850 MD, Allegany Co, Dist 10, h/h 820
King, Jesse 29 bn VA
, Lucinda 24 bn VA
, Sarah 7 bn VA
, Israel T. 2 bn MD
, Saml 3 bn MD
I copied this just as written. Saml should be listed before Israel based on age. It is my thought that the census taker added this Saml 3 as an after thought.Maybe he was not sure how to spell the name??? Anyway, this should be your Johnson Shadrack King 3 bn MD. Based on info from the Familysearch.org site, Lucinda's father was named Samuel, sooooo maybe she wanted to name him after her father?Hard to know for sure.

Jesse King md Lucinda Harvey
20 Jan 1842
VA, Hampshire Co, Mineral
*this area later became WV.
______________
WW1 Draft Registration
Fayette Co, PA

Harry Owens King
28yr old
Married
bn: 25 Aug 1890 in Union Town, PA
residence: Adah, PA
Occupation: Gales Mines
filed: 1917
*This is the brother of your William Henry King. See 1900 census. Here it is listed as Gales mines but on William's registration it is listed as Gates Mines. Probably the same Mine, just a typo.

William King
21 yr Old
bn: 30 oct 1896 in Union Town, PA
residence: Adah, PA..Gates Mines
Occupation: Gates Mines
nearest relative: Jennie King
filed: 1918
*No reference as to how Jennie King is related.

It is hard to believe that no one has posted any trees for this KING family group.I have checked all tree sites I know of and found nothing. But here they are for you...guess you will be the first to solve the mystery of this family. Since Johnson Shadrack King is still alive for the 1920 (73) you should be able to find a death record for him.The hard part will be trying to figure out how his name is listed on the record so they can look for him. Infact you should be able to find his marriage record there to Blanche & the death record for Adie/Ida King (William's mother).

Death records are nice but remember they are filled out by someone else; errors/ommissions are common.I would send for a copy of the original Social Security application on William Henry King. This form is filled out by him. His parents should be listed on it and with luck, the maiden name of his mother. I have included the names of the spouses of for some of these people so you can use them on your searches.Never know where the next clue will come from.

Good luck,
Marsha