Sarah Ann Davis King (1827-1911) - Find a Grave Memorial

Sarah Ann Davis King

Birth

1827

Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA

Death

31 Jul 1911 (aged 83–84)

Tenleytown, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA

Burial

Rock Creek Cemetery

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Plot

Section: N; Lot: 113; Site: 6

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JEFF DAVIS' COUSIN,
PIONEER RESIDENT
OF DISTRICT, DEAD

Mrs. Sarah King Connected
With Mercantile Establishments
Many Years.

Mrs. Sarah Davis King, almost a quarter of a century past her allotted three score years, a cousin of the Confederate leader, Jefferson Davis, and one of the oldest inhabitants of the District, died at her home, Belt Road, Tenleytown, Wednesday evening, from paralysis. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the family home, the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Baltimore Methodist Church, who for years has been a friend of the family, officiating. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.

Mrs. King leaves a husband, Charles King, himself eighty-six years of age; four children, twenty-seven grandchildren, and twenty-four great-grandchildren. She was the last of her family, leaving no brothers or sisters.

Born in Germantown in 1827, during the Administration of John Quincy Adams, she witnessed the growth of Washington from a mere villiage to a metropolitan city. All her life was spent in the District, most of the time, she having been in the mercantile business at several addresses in Georgetown and later in Tenleytown.

During the civil war she was conducting a grocery store in Georgetown, and she often related that upon several occasions lawless bands of soldiers attemted to loot her store. She was not slow in asserting her rights in the days when might often made right, and it is related that upon one occasion she forcibly ejected two half-drunken soldiers who were attempting to rob the vinegar barrel, thinking they had found some liquor.

Mrs. King was married twice. Her first husband, Randal Colburn, died forty-two years ago. It was while she was married to Mr. Colburn that her four children, Charles Colburn, William S. Colburn, Mrs. Sarah Mann, and G.M.S. Colburn, all of Washington, were born. Mrs King was a woman of strong character, well liked, and up to the last had possession of her faculties.

Her nephew, Jerome Davis, formerly had large holdings of land in Missouri.

The Washington Times
Thursday, August 3, 1911