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Elizabeth Anne “Bessie” Ballenger King

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Birth	:	20 Apr 1891 Glassy, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
Death	:	20 Jan 1974 Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
Burial	:	Springwood Cemetery, Greenville, Greenville County, USA
Coordinate	:	34.8546982, -82.3949966
Plot	:	Section C
Description	:	Elizabeth Ann "Bessie" Ballenger is the daughter of Joseph Leighton Ballenger, Sr and Kindness Ida Center. She is the eldest of their children and a sister to Jessie Jane Ballenger Bowen Goodman, John James, Masilda "Sildie" Essie Ballenger Coln Biggers, Texas "Tessie" (who died at age 14), Cordie Lillian Ballenger Williams, Zebulon Vance (who died in infancy), Horace Edward, Rufus Rex, Sarah "Sallie" Ophelia Ballenger DeYoung, Edna Cue Ballenger Henderson Hawkins and Joseph Leighton, Jr. In 1909 Bessie graduated from the North Greenville Academy or High School in Tigerville, SC and was the recipient of the... Read More	Elizabeth Ann "Bessie" Ballenger is the daughter of Joseph Leighton Ballenger, Sr and Kindness Ida Center. She is the eldest of their children and a sister to Jessie Jane Ballenger Bowen Goodman, John James, Masilda "Sildie" Essie Ballenger Coln Biggers, Texas "Tessie" (who died at age 14), Cordie Lillian Ballenger Williams, Zebulon Vance (who died in infancy), Horace Edward, Rufus Rex, Sarah "Sallie" Ophelia Ballenger DeYoung, Edna Cue Ballenger Henderson Hawkins and Joseph Leighton, Jr. In 1909 Bessie graduated from the North Greenville Academy or High School in Tigerville, SC and was the recipient of the Elocution medal in her class. She also attended Draughan's Business College in Greenville, SC to study shorthand and typing. She was the only one among her siblings to graduate high school. She would for a while work in a cigar factory with some of her sisters. Bessie next began working in the court system in Greenville county, SC and on 10 July 1920 Bessie married James "Jim" Henry King, who had moved to SC from Vermont, serving as a mounted police officer in Charleston, a Federal Revenue agent in upstate SC and a private investigator. Their wedding took place at St Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, SC. For the first few years of their married life Bessie worked as a public stenographer and Jim as a private detective with the Palmetto Detective Agency. She had an office on the second floor of the Palmetto Building while Jim's office was upstairs on the third floor. They are the parents of Johannah Elizabeth King Bell, born 1925 and Anne Ballenger King McCuen, born 1927. Jim died of a myocardial infarction in 1929, when the girls were very young. Bessie returned to work, relying on her recently widowed mother to help rear the girls. She began as a stenographer with the US Marshal's office and soon became a US Federal Deputy Marshal and eventually became one of the first 8 women in the US to be named a Chief Deputy Marshal. She was a devoted member of Greenville's First Baptist Church and a member of the Business and Professional Women's club. Her daughters would graduate from Furman University. "Momma King" was a grandmother to 13 children, all of them surviving childhood college graduates. She retired on 30 Jun 1958 after serving 33 yrs 3 mos with the US government, 2 yrs of that in the Office of the US Attorney, almost 3 yrs in the office of the Clerk of the US District Court and the remainder with the US Marshals, Dept of Justice. She developed Alzheimer's late in life and died due to complications from a case of mumps.

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Elizabeth Anne “Bessie” Ballenger King's memorial is located at: Springwood Cemetery, Greenville, Greenville County, USA.
When did Elizabeth Anne “Bessie” Ballenger King death?
Elizabeth Anne “Bessie” Ballenger King death on 20 Jan 1974 in Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
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Latitude: 34.8546982
Longitude: -82.3949966

Family Members:

Parent

Joseph Leighton Ballenger

(1865 - 1930)

Kindness Ida Center Ballenger

(1873 - 1951)

Spouse

James Henry “Jim” King

(1881 - 1929)

Siblings

Texas Tessie Ballenger

(1898 - 1912)

Zebulon Vance Ballenger

(1902 - 1902)

Rufus Rex Ballenger

(1906 - 1970)

Joseph Leighton Ballenger Jr.

(1913 - 1994)

Children

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