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Hardesty's History of Jackson County
Ravenswood District
Winfield S. KING - born in Monroe County, Ohio, June 29, 1847, was a son of John and Isabell (McHenry) King, who took up their residence in Jackson County in 1856. He grew to manhood in this county, and engaged in the civil strife which was inaugerated in 1861, becoming a member of Company I, 11th Virginia Infantry, November 5, 1861, and serving until honorably discharged in October, 1865. In Jackson County, December 24, 1874, Winfield S. King and Sarah E. Boso were joined in marriage, and their children are four, all living at this time under the parental roof. They were born: Mosel B., September 18, 1875; John N., April 8, 1877; Winfield S. Jr., June 29, 1879; Deborah E., August 23, 1881. John A. and Deborah (Mills) Boso were the parents of the wife of Mr. King, and she was born in this county on the 26th of February, 1857. Winfield S. King owns and carries on a good farm. to which labors he adds the duties of postmaster at Topins Grove, Jackson County, West Virginia.
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