Family
Austin King was twice-married. He wed Nancy Harris Roberts in Jackson, Tennessee on May 13, 1828. She preceded him in death in 1857. The following year, August 10, 1858, in Kingston, Missouri he married Martha Anthony Woodson. King fathered a total of nine children by his two wives. Sons Walter, William Augustus, Edward Livingston, Henry, Thomas Benton, and Austin Augustus Jr. with his first wife as well as daughter Melvina Elizabeth. Daughters Mary Bell and Nannie were born to King and his second wife. Son Henry died young, at approximately age six in 1840. Son Austin A. King, Jr. was a pro-Union officer in the Missouri State Militia and later the Missouri Volunteer Cavalry where he attained the rank of Colonel, like his father before him.
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