Personal Life
King married Henrietta M. Chamberlain on December 10, 1854 in Brownsville, Texas. They had 5 children, Nettie, Ella, Richard, Alice Gertrude, and Robert E. Lee, the latter named for the King family friend, Robert E. Lee. Lee is said to have chosen the location for the King's home on the King ranch, as a location easy to defend. Following Robert Kings's early death at age 19, King is said to have taken to drink; however, other sources suggest that this was self-medication for a recurring stomach pain. He died of stomach cancer at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio on April 14, 1885, at age 60. He was buried in San Antonio; upon his wife's death in 1925, he was re-interred with her on the King Ranch, at Kingsville. King's ghost is said to haunt the Menger Hotel, particularly the suite named for him.
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