Nellie Lourilla (Blunt) King (1879 - 1946)

Born 30 Jun 1879 in Rudd, Floyd, Iowa, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Ernest King — married 19 Dec 1899 in Mitchell, Davison, South Dakota, United States

Died 1946 at about age 66 in South Dakota, United States

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Biography

Nellie Lourilla Blunt was born 30 June 1879 in Rudd, Floyd County, Iowa, the eighth of nine children of Charlotte Cordray and James Madison Blunt. ^[1][2][3]

In 1880, the Blunt family left their home in Rockford Township, Floyd County, Iowa, ^[4] for Dakota Territory. They arrived in Hyde County on 14 March (1880), filed for homestead "on the unbroken and practically uninhabitable prairie" and by 1884, they were settled in Jasper Township in Hanson County. ^[5]

Three of Charlotte and James Blunt's daughters married in South Dakota to the sons of Caroline Gannon and John H King: Vernell "Vern" King married Lucy Blunt, Ernest King married Nellie Blunt, and Irven King married Julia Blunt, and their sister, Georgie King married Frank Boehmer. A 4th Blunt daughter, Lydia Louise, married Caroline's brother, Henry Philip Gannon.

Ernest King and Miss Nellie Blunt of Fulton were married at the residence of and by Rev. T.H. Youngman in Mitchell, South Dakota, on Tuesday, 19 December 1899. ^[6]

Ernest and Nellie had one son born 17 January 1903 in Hanson County.

1. Everett Foster King^[7][3]

Ernest and Nellie farmed in Fairview Township, Hanson, South Dakota until her death more than four decades later. ^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Nellie died 15 March 1946 in Hanson County;^[14] burial with Ernest and their son Everett in Graceland Cemetery, Fulton, Hanson County, South Dakota.^[15][3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJP5-JZ1 : 12 March 2018), Nellie Lourilla Blunt, 30 Jun 1879; citing Rudd, Floyd, Iowa, United States; county district courts, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,481,725.
2. ↑ "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q246-3RLF : accessed 17 September 2019), Nellie Lourilla Blunt King, 30 Jun 1879, Rudd, Floyd, Iowa, United States; citing reference ID 110682, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 101713539.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119699577/nellie-king: accessed 17 September 2023), memorial page for Nellie Blunt King (1879–1946), Find a Grave Memorial ID 119699577, citing Graceland Cemetery, Fulton, Hanson County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by High Plains (contributor 47607357).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD2D-K9B : 14 August 2017), Nellie Blunt in household of James Blunt, Rockford, Floyd, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district ED 217, sheet 307C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0340; FHL microfilm 1,254,340.
5. ↑ Unknown newspaper clipping, Feb 1907, "Wedded Fifty Years - Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Blunt"
6. ↑ The Mitchell Capital Mitchell, South Dakota · Friday, December 22, 1899
7. ↑ "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2016," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKD8-C6PK : 11 February 2018), Ernest King in entry for Everett King, 17 Jan 1903; citing Birth, Hanson, South Dakota, United States, South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMR7-YHF : accessed 17 September 2019), Ernest E King, Fairview & Spring Lake Townships, Hanson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 173, sheet 3B, family 68, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,550.
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPXB-NJW : accessed 17 September 2019), Ernest King, Fairview, Hanson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 220, sheet 9A, family 64, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1481; FHL microfilm 1,375,494.
10. ↑ "South Dakota State Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMH6-Z7F : 29 July 2017), Ernest King; citing State Historical Society, Pierre; FHL microfilm 2,283,546.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6J9-XMD : accessed 17 September 2019), Ernest Ring, Fairview, Hanson, South Dakota, United States; citing ED 90, sheet 8B, line 81, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1719; FHL microfilm 1,821,719
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQVW-8W4 : accessed 17 September 2019), Ernest A King, Fairview, Hanson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 3A, line 22, family 44, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2224; FHL microfilm 2,341,958.
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V19K-BVY : 27 July 2019), Ernest King, Fairview Township, Hanson, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 31-5, sheet 2B, line 56, family 31, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3857
14. ↑ Ancestry.com. South Dakota, U.S., Death Index, 1879-1955 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004.[1]
15. ↑ Graceland Cemetery, Fulton, South Dakota, Jasper Township Sec. 17-103-58 (online) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sdhanson/cemetery.html [KING, Nellie 1879-1946; Ernest 1877-1972; KING, Everett E. 1903-1967]