Henry wrote his will in Duplin County in 1762 and must have died soon after at about the age of 34, his children all under the age of 10. His will mentions three sons:  Henry, Stephen (Steve), and Charles; and a daughter, Mary.  Ann married for the second time to Stephen Blackman. After his death she married Simon McClendon.  They moved to Davidson County, Tennessee where she died on January 18, 1811 according to the records of the Mills Creek Baptist Church. [The information about the life of Ann Snell King after the death of this first husband was supplied by Cleve Weathers, of Nashville, TN, a descendent of her marriage to Stephen Blackman.]

      Stephen King (1756-1812), the fifth generation, was born near Six Runs in Sampson County, North Carolina. In 1779, he married Amy Oates(1761-1824). Stephen was a planter as well as an attorney, and a wealthy man when he died. He also owned 3,000 acres of land in Sampson County, North Carolina, including a plantation and mansion which was left to his wife Amy. Land was distributed to each of his children and his slaves were numerous enough that they were separated into nine groups, as equal as possible in value, and divided among Stephen's heirs: his wife and eight of his grown children. Two other children, Elizabeth and Michael, had already received their inheritance at the time of their marriages.[Much of the information about the early generations of the King family was found in The Lees and Kings of Virginia and North Carolina by Wilson and Glover.]

      His son, Michael King (1782-1844), married his cousin, Polly Oates (1787-1836). When his father died 5 years later, several of Michael's brothers and sisters sold their property and they moved into other areas, but Michael remained in Sampson County. Michael died when the last of his fifteen children, William Thomas ("Tom") was only an infant. After Polly's death, when Tom was about 10, four of his sons migrated into Tennessee. Young Tom was one of the four, probably among the children of his older brother, another Michael. He named one of his daughters Zilpha, the name of Michael's wife. {Information about  both the King and Oates families was researched by Juanita Lowrance of Rutherford, TN and John Martin Oates, Jr. ]

      We know nothing of the years between Tom King's arrival in Tennessee and his marriage at 37. Perhaps he had fought in the Civil War. Or had been married before and lost his wife and children. Saluda Jane Box(1834-1915) was already a mother when they married and she had six more children with Tom, only two surviving. Fifteen years after their marriage, Tom died in an accident. In February 1884, he was driving a wagon up a steep hill when it upset and he was dragged along the roadway, tangled in the harness. Within a few months, Saluda Jane had married Tom's older brother Nathan, a widower, combining two related families with small children. Nathan died within a year. Her surviving children were Ellen, Zilpha, and Mary Edna.

      Mary Edna King (c. 1876-1959)married Thomas Albert Nash(1870-1926). A daughter, Savannah, was their first child. Before the birth of their second daughter, Tommie Leona, the couple separated. They divorced, she married again, and divorced a second time. After Tommie married and moved to Mobile, Alabama, "Miss Edna" also made her home there.