Former Resident Dead.
Noah M. King, a former resident of Adams county, died in the soldiers' home in Sawtell, Cal., March 16, 1922, aged 82 years, 10 months, and 20 days. The deceased gentleman was born in Menard County. Illinois, and was married in 1960 to Mary Elizabeth Close. To them were born twelve children. Four sons and five daughters survive Mr. King whose wife died in 1920. Deceased came to Adams County, Iowa in the early sixties after his discharge from the army and from there moved to the Nell neighborhood in Nodaway Township of our own community where he lived on a farm until 1890. In 1903 he moved to Alvin, Texas where he resided until he went to the soldiers home in California. Mr. King served one term in this community as a member of the board of supervisors and at one time was a candidate on the republican ticket for representative for this county in the state legislature. After moving to Texas he served two terms as county commissioner. Mr. B. F. Myers, his daughter, was with him every minute of his last short illness. At his own request he rest in the national cemetery in Sawtell, California.
Adams County Free Press, March 22, 1922

Noah M. King (1922)
KING, OGLESBEE, MYERS
Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 22, 1922
Death of NOAH M. KING
Noah M. King died at the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, Calif., on March 16th, 1922. He was a brother of Albert King of St. Charles, also of Mrs. Nancy Oglesbee, who recently passed away.
A daughter, Mrs. B. F. Myers of Dexter, was with him when he died. Mr. King located in Patterson soon after the close of the civil war, later moving to Adams county.
Many old acquaintances will remember Mr. King and sorrow with his relatives in their bereavement.
Information found on rootsweb.com, Madison County
N. M. King, a member of the Board of Supervisors of Adams county, Iowa, was born in Sandridge township, Menard County, Illinois, April 28, 1841. His father, N. M. King, Sr., was born in Virginia in 1802, and his great-grandfather, Daniel King, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The King family came from England and were among the first settlers in Virginia. N. M. King, Sr., located in Illinois in 1821, at the age of nineteen. He and Abraham Lincoln worked by the day together, both enlisted in the same company in the Black Hawk War, and were warm friends all their lives. Mr. King Sr., married Jane Runnels, daughter of John Runnels, who was born in North Carolina and when eleven years of age was taken to Kentucky where she was reared. They lived in Illinois until 1865, when they moved to Madison county, Iowa, where Mr. King died February 15, 1883, in his eighty-first year. His wife was past eighty-one when she died. He was a farmer all his life; in politics a Whig and later a Republican; and in religion, a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Of their ten children, nine reached adult age.
N. M. King Jr was reared on his father's farm and educated in the common schools of his native county. When the war came on, he was among the first to offer his services to his country. November 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company M., Second Illinois Cavalry, that regiment which so grandly distinguished itself. (This was the war of 1861-1865 which was to resolve two festering questions that the Revolution of 1776 and the Constitution of 1789 had left unresolved; whether this fragile republican experiment called the United States would survive as one nation, indivisible; and whether this nation born of a declaration that all men are created with an equal right to liberty would persist as the largest slave-holding country in the world.) He participated in many important engagements, and at the close of the war was mustered out at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, being Quartermaster Sergeant at the time.
Returning to Illinois after the war, he remained in that State two months, thence to Madison County, Iowa, where he lived until December 13, 1870, when he settled on wild land in Adams County. He now owns 295 acres of rich land in section 21, Douglas Township, this county, and forty acres in Madison County. The "King Farm," as it is known, is one of the best in the township. A good modern residence was built in 1891 and is surrounded by a grove and orchard. A substantial barn, 30 X 40 feet, and all the farm improvements, broad meadows and well cultivated fields, indicate the enterprise of the owner and the prosperity which has attended him. The farm is all bottom land except 120 acres located on the hill side. Mr. King has given much attention to stock raising, and has been eminently successful in his various operations.
August 1, 1860, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Close, who was born and reared in the same neighborhood with him, attending the same district school. She is a daughter of George and Rebecca (Beams) Close, the former born in Licking county, Kentucky, and the latter born in South Carolina and reared in Kentucky. They became early settlers of Menard county, Illinois. The father died in Madison County, Iowa, in March 1871, aged seventy-five years; the mother is now a resident of Livingston County, Missouri, and is in her eighty-ninth year. To Mr. and Mrs. King Jr. eleven children have been born, Vis: Minerva Isabelle, wife of William Strait; Trinvilla, wife of Rufus Gooddle, of Lincoln Township, this county; Mary A., wife of B. F. Myers, of Jasper Township; Rebecca J., wife of A. A. Strait; Charles S., U. S. Grant, Fanny Frances, Guthrie W., John Leonard, Ada I., and Howard W.

Noah M. King, 2 Regiment, Illinois Calvalry, Union Side, company M, went in as a private, ranked out as a Sergent, Film #M539, roll 49.