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About Tabitha Elizabeth King
From the memories of Nancy Penning Cook (1898-1998) granddaughter of Tabitha Butchett King.
Her name was Tabitha Burchett King. Her father was John Burchett - originally spelled "Bouchet" - and her mother was Jane Marion, daughter of Samuel and Tabitha Barnett Marion. Samuel Marion was the grandson of Benjamin Marion, who being a French Huguenot exiled to America, arrived in South Carolina about 1690 and applied for naturalization papers in 1695-96. Samuel Marion ws an enlisted soldier in the Revolutionary War. His application for a pension shows the date of his enlistment as 1776 and gives the names of his various officers and engagement while in service. He was a first cousing of Francis Marion, "The Swamp Fox".
Grandma and Grandpa King came to Kentucky over the Wilderness Trail. On October 3, 1857 their 12th child, Sarah Catherine (my mother) was born on that trail near Flat Lick in southern Kentucky. Their journey ended about eighty miles from there in a lovely green valley surrounded by rolling hills, called Chinqupin Routh (now Annville, KY)
Grandma Tabitha King used to come and visit us, bringing her "carpetbag", a big trunk and an endless store of jokes and stories. She had a great sense of humor. Her tunch contained petticoats, all of dark material and gathered at the waist, many souvenirs, mysterious little bundles, her hand-made "coverlids" and a large hor - probably one of the first hearing aids ever made. It was supposed to be held to the ear for better hearing, but I don't remember ever seeing her use it, probably because she was always busy talking.
In the pocket of one of the many petticoats she carried her wallet, and since she received a Civil War pension which was paid in gold coin, it was a source of great fascination to my brother Jack and me.
It is thanks to Grandma King's wonderful memory that we are able to trace much of our maternal ancestry. She died at our house in London and was buried in the King Cemetary at Annville, on a high hill overlooking the farm. She was burined beside Grandpa George W. King and their son Joel, who died during the Civil War.
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Tabitha Elizabeth King's Timeline
| 1817 |
April 23, 1817
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Lee County, Virginia, United States
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| 1837 |
August 4, 1837
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TN, United States
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| 1840 |
July 5, 1840
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TN, United States
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| 1841 |
1841
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TN, United States
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| 1842 |
December 20, 1842
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TN, United States
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| 1844 |
October 20, 1844
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Claiborne, TN, United States
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| 1846 |
August 1846
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TN, United States
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| 1848 |
1848
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TN, United States
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| 1849 |
October 23, 1849
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TN, United States
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