Weldon Martin King (1893 - 1963)

Born 10 Aug 1893 in Orange County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Maggie Lee (Woods) King — married 5 Aug 1913 in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 5 Jan 1963 at age 69 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina

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Biography

Weldon was born in Orange County, North Carolina on August 10th, 1893. He served in the North Carolina National Guard during World War I, and worked in hosiery mills the rest of his life. According to his 1917 draft registration card^[1], he was married and living and working in a Burlington, NC hosiery mill. In the 1920 census, he's living with his family in Graham, NC. He's moved back into Burlington on Flanner Street for the 1930 census.^[2] 1940 finds him in the Hemp Town area of Robbins, North Carolina, with his four sons and daughter Frances and grandson Ronnie living with him.^[3] That census indicated he lived in the same place in 1935. In the 1950 census, he's a rayon mill foreman in Robbins, NC, lodging in the Crabtree household.^[4] He died suddenly in 1963 at UNC Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his home address listed as 809 Buckner Street in Graham.^[5] He was buried at Tabernacle Methodist Church cemetery in Robbins, beside his wife Maggie.^[6] In his will, he named daughter Erma King Kimball his executor, and dramatically left $1 to each of his children except for her. She received essentially everything he had, including some land around Robbins.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYT3-3NTQ?cc=1968530&wc=9FWZ-SPJ%3A928313301%2C928313302 : 19 September 2019), North Carolina > Alamance County; A-Z > image 2801 of 5834; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X39J-431 : Sun Mar 10 11:04:42 UTC 2024), Entry for Weldon King and Maggie King, 1930.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWQ3-WJ7 : Sat Mar 09 09:17:10 UTC 2024), Entry for Welborne King and Cleo King, 1940.
4. ↑ "United States 1950 Census", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FMM-1T9N : Wed Mar 20 08:59:24 UTC 2024), Entry for Harlan G Ciabtree and Edna L Crabtree, April 7, 1950.
5. ↑ "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGYR-VBH : 29 September 2022), Weldon Martin King, 1963.
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39239163/weldon_martin-king: accessed March 25, 2024), memorial page for Weldon Martin King (12 Aug 1893–5 Jan 1963), Find a Grave Memorial ID 39239163, citing Tabernacle United Methodist Church Cemetery, Robbins, Moore County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by PAllred (contributor 48048940).
7. ↑ https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=Xib7NfnK11s&mid=50138&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancestry.com%2Fsharing%2F9788200%3Fmark%3D7b22746f6b656e223a22545a6e39647a536b4543352f6e68457753734e6f3843645a4b496b667933796165426438324f48626b4a303d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

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