William King Avery

I have information compiled by Ernest Avery and Marie Avery Thigpen ( son and daughter of Joel Herbert Avery, grandchildren of Alvie Loranza Dow Avery, great-grandchildren of William King Avery). This information was published by them for our immediate family in 1964, but I have not seen any of the information in Geni so far. "William King Avery was born Oct. 6, 1810 and died Apr. 19, 1913 at the age of 103. When just a little boy still in knee pants, William King Avery came with his parents from North Carolina to Atlanta, Ga. He was about four years of age. He helped his father and great uncle build the first house in the place that is now Atlanta, Ga. It was built of logs. He had some brothers and sisters older than him, but in coming from North Carolina, they had to cross a river in which they lost all the members of his family except his father, his great uncle and himself. When his father died in Georgia he was left a lone child. He was farmed out until grown. He married Frances Elizabeth Greer, born in 1828, a native of Merriweather County, Ga. At the age of 100 years, while living with his son Joseph Marshall, William King planted the 10 acre orchard in cotton and produced 5 bales of cotton. This was in Nacogdoches Co., on the old Logansport road just 4 miles north of Nacodgoches, Texas. At that time it was still an old Indian Trail."