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Ancestors

Julia Harriet King

1854-1937 · Tennessee
Born 1854, Tennessee
Died 1937
Children include Perry

Julia Harriet King was born in Tennessee in 1854. A memorial to her names her father as the Rev. Allen Lewis King, 1823 to 1909, a minister who also came to Ellis County, Kansas, and is buried at Norman Cemetery. Her sisters included Susan Rebecca, later Turk, Ladora Kate, later Mock, Lucinda Belle, later Stone, and Ida May, later Bemis.

On 6 August 1874 she married Francis Alexander Simpson in Rhea County, Tennessee. Their first son, Arther, was born in Arkansas about 1875, and by 1877 they were in Kansas, where Victor was born.

In June 1880 Julia was 30, keeping house in Saline Township of northern Ellis County with her husband Frank and three small sons, the youngest a baby of three months who was Perry Commodore Simpson. Robert Ingersol, called Bert, followed in 1881, Clarence Edwin in 1890 and her only daughter, Pearl, in 1892.

A studio photograph shows Julia in later life with two of her sisters, Kate Mock and Susan Turk. Julia sits in the middle in a dark pleated dress with a high lace collar, her gray hair pinned up.

She was widowed in 1925 and lived until 1937. She is buried beside Francis at Norman Cemetery, where the stone names her "Julia H. King, His Wife".

Sources

Family photograph captioned "L to R: Kate Mock, Julia Simpson, Susan Turk (Sisters)", added by Dian Simpson, 30 April 2021, Find a Grave memorial 19223184
United States census, 1880, Kansas, Ellis County, Saline Township, enumeration district 84, sheet 387B, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFPB-WHZ
Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1959, Rhea County, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z9-6HY6
Find a Grave memorials 19223175 and 19223184, Norman Cemetery, Ellis County, Kansas, photograph added 4 February 2009
Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1959, Rhea County, 1874 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z9-6HY6); United States census 1880, Saline Township, Ellis County, Kansas (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MFPB-WHZ); United States census 1910 and 1920, Saline Township; photograph of the three sisters and family links, Find a Grave memorial 19223184

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