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History in
a Pecan Shell
Before
the town applied for a post office, it had been named Stringtown
for the arrangement of homes along Cowhouse Creek. The postal authorities
rejected the first name as somewhat frivolous and not keeping with
the decorum of the service. When forced to come up with a new name,
they submitted the name of local storekeeper Henry King who, by virtue
of his ownership, also became postmaster.
In the 1880s things looked good for King, with a cotton gin and gristmill
in operation, a school for the children and not one church but three.
The population was a respectable 80 residents. King peaked in the
1890s with 100 residents where it remained for decades. Finally, in
1940 when the U.S. population moved from rural to urban, King's population
shrank 75%. The post office closed its doors in 1953 and the population
has been given as 25 from one census to the next - as late as 2000. |
King, Texas
Chronicles
From
Comanche
Raids in Coryell County by Mike Cox
"Mrs. W.W. Robinson remembered a time when she was a little girl
that she and her father just missed a run-in with Comanches. During
the week, she and her brother John stayed at her uncle Andy Bone’s
place on Cowhouse Creek so they could attend a one-room school at
King. One Friday, her father Eli Williamson
(whether he was related to the late Steven Williamson was not mentioned
in the book) came to pick them up for the weekend. Her brother rode
his own horse while she sat behind her father on his horse. Not far
from their home on Beehouse Creek, her father spotted a group of Indians
before the Indians saw them.
Yelling for his daughter to hang on, Williamson wheeled his horse
and galloped off in the opposite direction. They made it home safely,
but it was a scare she never forgot."more |
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