Isaac King was one half Cherokee and when not farming, spent time teaching school.  He had to quite teaching when he developed Palsy, which took his life in 1905.

Born in 1903, Willie King Martin was Myra’s first child, and one of the first of Isaac’s grandchildren.  She contracted the Flu in 1918 during the devastating epidemic that year and died.  She was the last grandchild buried with Isaac since the others raised families and moved away.

Isaac King’s wife, Eliza “Ann “ Patterson, was the step daughter of the farmer next door, Lewis G. Smith.  When Isaac was too sick to teach, she took his place.  She was born in 1860, but her father died in the  Civic War.  Ann was known as Mother Dear, and lived until 1929.

Ruth Martin, daughter of Myra and Walter Martin, was the first of Isaac King’s grandchildren to be buried with him.  She was born in 1905, a few weeks before Isaac died, but she died in 1908.  Ruth was followed by her cousin, Henry Vernon Williams, who died in 1914, but a close up of his grave is not shown.