Dr. Franklin King ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Book: Makers of America: Biographies of Leading Men of Thought and Action, the Men who Constitute the Bone and Sinew of American Prosperity and Life, Volume 1, 1915. ⁵
DOCTOR FRANKLIN KING
President of the Bank of Leaksville, a leader in the business and religious life of his section, was born in Henry County, Virginia, on July 3, 1843, son of Joseph Seward and Elizabeth Lester King. His father was by occupation a mechanic and a son of the Rev. John King, a native of Brunswick County, Virginia, where he was born in 1758.
Mr. King was married in Rockingham County, North Carolina, on December 22 1868 to Eliza Ann Dyer who was born in Henry County, Virginia, on October 8 1846, daughter of Jabez Gravely and Martha Dyer.
He has reared a fine family of six daughters and one son. These children in order are Irene Bethel, Lottie Elizabeth, Daisy Evelyn, Annie Myrtle, Mary Lilly, Jessie Elise and Durward Franklin King.
The eldest daughter Irene B. was educated at Thomasville Female College, married Jesse Benjamin Taylor, and has one daughter, Sunshine, now a student at Roanoke College.
The next, Lottie E., was educated at Hollins College, married Rev Squire Joseph Beeker and has one daughter, Mabel.
The next, Daisy E., was educated at Hollins College, married Thomas Hayes Barker has one son, Thomas Hayes Barker Jr. and one daughter, Evelyn King Barker.
The next Annie M. was educated at Roanoke and Meredith colleges, married J. Platte Turner and has two daughters, Eliza Ewing Turner and Frances King Turner.
The next, Mary L. educated at Meredith College, married William Burton Weaver and has one son, William Burton Weaver Jr.
The next daughter, Jessie E. educated at Hollins and Meredith colleges, married Lister Allen Martin and has one daughter, Jessie Martin.
The only son, Durward Franklin King, was educated at Wake Forest College, North Carolina, and married Annadell Neal.
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2. Census in 1920 in Leaksville, Rockingham, NC. ⁶ The 1920 census recorded D. F. King, banker, 76, living with wife Eliza D., 73; daughter Lottie K. Beeker, widowed, 45; and granddaughter Mabel, 9. D. F. and Eliza and their parents were born in Virginia. Lottie and Mabel were born in North Carolina.

3. Book: History of Patrick and Henry Counties, Virginia: The King Family, 1933. ⁷
Dr. Franklin King married Eliza Dyer. He was a lieutenant in the Confederate Army and belonged to the Forty-Second Virginia Regiment. The children of this marriage were: Irene, who married Jesse Ben Taylor; Lottie, Rev. J. B. Beeker; Daisy married a Mr. Hayes, of Leakesville, North Carolina; Myrtle, J. Platt Turner, of Leaksville-Spray; Mary Lilly, Lester J. Martin, of North Carolina; Frank married Anna Adele Neal, of Reidsville, North Carolina.

Franklin married Eliza Ann Dyer on 22 Dec 1868 in Leaksville, Rockingham, NC.¹ (Eliza Ann Dyer was born on 8 Oct 1846 in Leatherwood, Henry, VA,^{5 8} died in 1933 in Leaksville, Rockingham, NC ⁸ and was buried in Eden: First Baptist Church Cemetery, Rockingham, NC ⁸.)