Abraham KING

  General Notes:

Photo: Abraham King and his wife, Jenney Nightingale, are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska where this photo of their monument was taken by Marilyn Keim.

This photo by Marilyn Keim was taken in 2009 and added to the memorial pages for Abraham King and Jenney Nightingale King at www.findagrave.com. The photo is used here (ALLUM web site) with Marilyn's permission.



1854 BIRTH of Abraham King

Abraham -- also found Abram -- was a son of Isaac King and Rachel Piggot

1860 CENSUS, Illinois, LaSalle County, P. O. Leland ("Abram," age 6, is with his parents)

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Black Hawk County, Cedar Township, P. O. Waterloo ("Abraham," age 15, "Farm Hand," is in the household of William and Sophia Osborn)

1880 CENSUS, Nebraska, Nuckolls County, Beaver Precinct, Spring Valley ("Abram," age 25, "Butcher," is in the household of Charles H. and Emma McHugh; also in the household are Scott King, age 20, "Butcher," and Isaac King, age 15, "Laborer") (a "Jennie King," age 28, is in the next household. Were Abraham and Jenney married before the year 1883 stated in her obituary? Or is the Jennie in the 1880 census ... a different Jennie King?)

1883 MARRIAGE of Abraham King and Jenney Nightingale on Septermber 23 in Nebraska (according to the obituary of Jenney ["Jennie"] Nightingale King)

1900 CENSUS, Nebraska, Nuckolls County, Beaver Precinct, Superior ("Abraham," age 44, "Capitalist," born "September, 1855" in Illinois) (1854 is on his gravestone) (wife "Jennie," age 49, born "January, 1851" in England, adopted daughter "Bessie N.," age 7, born "November, 1892" in Nebraska) (there is no person named Cora in the household in 1900)

1910 CENSUS, Nebraska, Nuckolls County, Superior Ward 2 ("A. King," age 54, born in Illinois, no occupation) (wife "Jennie," age 54, born in England) (Jennie is shown as the mother of "0" children; she and Abraham were ages 24 and 25 when they had married) (next door to Abraham and Jennie is their adopted daughter Bessie with her husband George and their own daughter Elizabeth; in Bessie's household is "Cora L. Mace," age 21, "Teacher," born in Iowa)

1917 DEATH of wife Jenney (Nightingale) King, at 66 years 10 months 20 days (using "1851" is the year of birth on her gravestone)

1920 CENSUS, Nebraska, Nuckolls County, Superior ("Abraham," age 64, widower, born in Illinois) (This faded census page is very difficult to decipher)

1922 DEATH, Abraham King, at approximately 68 years ("1854" is the year of birth on his gravestone)




OBITUARY (Jenney) from an undocumented newspaper:


Jennie Nightingale was born in Wisbech, England, January 1, 1850, and died at Superior, Neb, November 21,1917 aged 67 years 10 months and 21 days. [See note below.] She came to America with her parents at the age of nine months. They settled in Ohio and there she grew to womanhood. From there they moved to Iowa, and later to Nebraska. Here she was united in marriage September 23, 1883 to Abe King.

Mrs. King united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1894. Truly she was a woman who feared God, and who endeavored to walk in the way of truth. She was a devoted wife and mother, and a faithful keeper of the home. No other place was so dear to her as her own home, and her duties there were most faithfully attended to. Her sense of moral values was highly developed.

She leaves a husband and one daughter, Mrs.George Cruse of this city, three grand-children, Elizabeth, King and Loyal Cruse, and Mrs. Charlie Allum, who made her home with Mr. and Mrs. King from the time that she was sixteen years of age until her marriage.

The sisters and brothers are Mrs. Tom Fisher of Nelson, Neb.; Mrs. William Clements of Waterloo, Iowa; Mrs.Sam Shaw of Pearland, Texas; George Nightingale of White Lake, South Dakota, and Charlie Nightingale of Waterloo, Iowa. Her mother, father and one sister have already passed away.

The funeral was conducted by Pastor Lotan R. DeWolf at the Methodist church on Friday afternoon, with burial at Evergreen cemetery.



Jenney's obituary provides 1850 as her year of birth, but the King cemetery monument is engraved 1851. Her obituary states her age at death as 67 years 10 months 21 days, but a calculation using January 1, 1851 as her date of birth ... and November 21, 1917 as her date of death ... is 66 years 10 months 20 days. Her nickname is spelled "Jennie" and "Jenney."




CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Marilyn Keim (obituary for Jenney Nightingale King and photo of her gravestone)

Abraham married Jenney NIGHTINGALE on September 23, 1883 in Nebraska. (Jenney NIGHTINGALE was born on January 1, 1851 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, died on November 21, 1917 in Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska and was buried on November 23, 1917 in Evergreen Cemetery, Superior, Nuckolls County, Nebraska.)