John Rhodes King and his younger brother Henry, joined a group of immigrants to Texas from Paris Tennessee in August, 1837. The group crossed the sabine River into Texas on September 13th and arrived in Gonzales on Oct. 6. King participated in forming ajoint-stock company to purchase and survey land for a new town, named Seguin on February 25, 1839, in honor of Juan N. Seguín.qv
John King served in a ranger company as second sergeant to protect settlers from Indian raids under “Old Paint,” Matthew Caldwel, joined the Texas Auxiliary to help the Federalist forces in the Mexican civil war; and joined a company of minute men to protect the San Antonio area from the Indians. During the Mexican Invasions of 1842,qv he was named lieutenant under Capt. John Coffee (Jack) Haysqv for the Texas forces in San Antonio. In June 1846, after the outbreak of the Mexican War,qv King joined a company of Col. John Hays’s First Texas Regiment of Mounted Troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor.qv Back in Seguin in 1849, King served as deputy county clerk for Guadalupe County. On November 5, 1850, he was elected first lieutenant of a company of Texas Rangers formed to protect the state from Indian incursions. He returned to Seguin the following year, opened a grocery store, and married Ruth Eliza Wheeler.
An act incorporating Seguin was approved by the legislature on February 7, 1853, and in March, King was elected first mayor of the town. He organized several Masonic lodges dedicated to encouraging education and regulating the use of liquor. In June 1855, he was elected to the Sixth Legislature and appointed to the committees on Public Lands, Indian Affairs, Military Affairs, and Claims and Accounts. In the fall of 1859 he moved to Cibolo Creek in Eastern Bexar County. He was active in the movement to create Wilson County, and carried the petition to Austin.
Following the Secession Convention in Austin on January 28, 1861, Capt. John R. King joined the staff of Col. Henry McCullough,qv commander of the Texas Mounted Riflemen, C.S.A., and served in Texas and Arkansas. After resigning due to illness in December 1862, he moved first to Seguin and then to his ranch on Cibolo Creek in Wilson County, where he operated a steam sawmill, gristmill, and cotton gin. On February 15, 1876, King was elected a county commissioner, and in 1877 Stockdale was laid out as a townsite on land partially belonging to him. On November 7, 1882, he was elected to the Eighteenth Legislature, where he served on the committees on Stock and Stockraising, Military Affairs, and Indian Affairs, and as a member of a joint House-Senate committee to report on the condition of the Governor’s Mansion.qv After being reelected in 1884, he served on the committees on State Affairs, Judicial Districts, Counties and County Boundaries, Private Land Claims and Public Roads, and Bridges and Ferries. After retiring from public life in 1886, he chaired the building committee for the construction of the Stockdale Methodist Church on land that he and his brother-in-law had donated.Stockdale cemetery is 25 miles south of Seguin.
The move from Tennessee to Texas is described in the Online Handbook of Texas at www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/onlyine/artlcles/view/KK/fki67.html
Contributed by Sharolyn P. Woods
Jack Givens
One source gives her birthplace as Stewart Co., TN
Child
Grace A Kayser
BIR-DEATH:Pate Family Bible in possession of Ben Paul Pruett, Orange, CA
MARRIAGE:Suit filed in Gonzales County to reclaim estate of Henry B. &
Mahala J. King
CENSUS:US 1850 Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX, Rachel is 10 yrs, lvg w/parents
John James Farrington Lemmon-53640
Burial Information: Lemmon, John James Farrington
Birth: 1/28/1843
Death: 0/0/0
Burial: 3/26/1874
Place of Birth:
Place of Death:
Cause of Death:
Grave Location: Hilltop Cemetery
Source: Sexton Records / Grant
Comments: Spelling Not Verified
Relatives: Marian Louisa Patton (Mother)
James Abbott Lemmon (Father)
Sarah Catherine Brown (Spouse)Grave Marker Epitaph: Erected To The Memory Of John James Born In Zarahemla, Lee Co, Iowa.
Had children: John James Lemmon; Ora Frances Lemmon,
family records
1880 Census Place: Rockville, Kane, Utah
Source: FHL Film 1255336 National Archives Film T9-1336 Page 434A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
David W. PATTON Self M M W 32 IA
Occ: Farming Fa: US Mo: US
Sarah Catherin PATTON Wife F M W 28 UT
Fa: IL Mo: IL
James Johnson PATTON Son M S W 10 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
David William PATTON Son M S W 8 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
George A. PATTON Son M S W 6 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
William Newman PATTON Son M S W 3 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
Pheba Ann PATTON Dau F S W 8M UT
Fa: IA Mo: UTSarah C. Lemmon
Ezra W. Stevens
Kane Co., UT.
28 Aug 1916, Mt. Carmel
Vol. B, Pg 96Idaho Death Index, 1911-51
Name: LEMMON, SARAH CATHERINE
Year: 1923
Certificate Number: 042814
County of Death: Custer
City: LESLIE
Date of Death: 07/22/1923
Date of Birth: 04/11/1852
family records
1880 Census Place: Rockville, Kane, Utah
Source: FHL Film 1255336 National Archives Film T9-1336 Page 434A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
David W. PATTON Self M M W 32 IA
Occ: Farming Fa: US Mo: US
Sarah Catherin PATTON Wife F M W 28 UT
Fa: IL Mo: IL
James Johnson PATTON Son M S W 10 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
David William PATTON Son M S W 8 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
George A. PATTON Son M S W 6 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
William Newman PATTON Son M S W 3 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
Pheba Ann PATTON Dau F S W 8M UT
Fa: IA Mo: UTSarah C. Lemmon
Ezra W. Stevens
Kane Co., UT.
28 Aug 1916, Mt. Carmel
Vol. B, Pg 96Idaho Death Index, 1911-51
Name: LEMMON, SARAH CATHERINE
Year: 1923
Certificate Number: 042814
County of Death: Custer
City: LESLIE
Date of Death: 07/22/1923
Date of Birth: 04/11/1852
family records
1880 Census Place: Rockville, Kane, Utah
Source: FHL Film 1255336 National Archives Film T9-1336 Page 434A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
David W. PATTON Self M M W 32 IA
Occ: Farming Fa: US Mo: US
Sarah Catherin PATTON Wife F M W 28 UT
Fa: IL Mo: IL
James Johnson PATTON Son M S W 10 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
David William PATTON Son M S W 8 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
George A. PATTON Son M S W 6 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
William Newman PATTON Son M S W 3 UT
Fa: IA Mo: UT
Pheba Ann PATTON Dau F S W 8M UT
Fa: IA Mo: UTSarah C. Lemmon
Ezra W. Stevens
Kane Co., UT.
28 Aug 1916, Mt. Carmel
Vol. B, Pg 96Idaho Death Index, 1911-51
Name: LEMMON, SARAH CATHERINE
Year: 1923
Certificate Number: 042814
County of Death: Custer
City: LESLIE
Date of Death: 07/22/1923
Date of Birth: 04/11/1852
family records
profession: Steamboat Captain
family records
died before 1883, year uncertain
could have died Nov 1862
Lashlee Locator Vol 1 No. 1
18 years old in Benton Co. TN census of 1850, not in 1860 census
md twice, 2nd wife is Bell Wilson [from Miss Cecile Lashlee of Camden]known as "Frank"
Linda Evans
1st wife: Margaret GriggsJean Gilley website: spouse
Isabelle Christian Wilson-23351
No children by this marriage. He may have had ch by first wife, Margaret Griggs
Linda Evans