- Rev. Robert King Obituary - January 9, 1879 - Anderson Intelligencer
This aged and excellent Christian minister, whose death it was our sad duty to chronicle last week, was one of the early Baptist ministers of this portion of South Carolina, and as such was well known in this portion of the State, not only to his own denomination, but to the people generally. He was born in the County on the 1st day of January, 1791, and upon reaching early manhood determined to try his fortunes in a new county, and accordingly removed to the State of Tennessee, where he was converted to Christianity in 1809, and baptized as a member of the Baptist faith by Rev. Daniel White of that State. He thereupon returned to this County, married in April 1811, and permanently settled here, joining the Neal's Creek Baptist Church. In May, 1828, he was ordained by his Church to preach the Gospel, the presbytery consisting of Elders Moses Holland, Sanford Vandiver and James Burris, together with Mr. Aaron Wilhoht, a lay member. He raised a family of twelve sons and daughters, all of whom are members of the Church of the same faith as their father, and are upright and exemplary men and women, making useful and respected citizens in the various walks of life in which they are engaged. Mr. King was in the ministry near fifty-one years, preaching his last sermon at Belton in March 1878. He was then very feeble, and his patriarchal words from the text, "stand still and see the salvation of the Lord," were listened to with much interest and reverence. As has already been said, he died on the 1st day of January, 1879, being on that day eighty-eight years old. Mr. King was a kind and amiable gentleman, without a college education, but possessed of strong mental power and sound judgment. He was a pure man and an earnest minister, whose long life has been devoted to the effort to benefit mankind. On last Thursday the remains of the deceased were interred in Neal's Creek Church Yard, in the presence of a large concourse of people, after eloquent and solemn funeral services by Revs. J. S. Murray and W. P. Martin.
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1791 - 1879 (88 years)
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