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Rufus Allen King

Birth	:	14 Feb 1923 Sampson County, North Carolina, USA
Death	:	2 Oct 1956 Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, USA
Burial	:	Darden Cemetery, Clinton, Sampson County, USA
Description	:	From the New York Times, October 3, 1956 . FARM FATHER KILLS 6 CHILDREN AND SELF Clinton, N. C., Oct. 2 (AP)--A 35-year-old tenant farmer, sought on a charge of beating his wife, today shot and battered his six children to death, then shot himself between his eyes. The mother was absent from the home when he did it. The coroner ruled the deaths were murder and suicide. Officers seeking to serve a warrant on Rufus A. King received no response to their knocks at the farmhouse door. They peered into windows and saw the children's bodies sprawled over floors of two rooms... Read More	From the New York Times, October 3, 1956 . FARM FATHER KILLS 6 CHILDREN AND SELF Clinton, N. C., Oct. 2 (AP)--A 35-year-old tenant farmer, sought on a charge of beating his wife, today shot and battered his six children to death, then shot himself between his eyes. The mother was absent from the home when he did it. The coroner ruled the deaths were murder and suicide. Officers seeking to serve a warrant on Rufus A. King received no response to their knocks at the farmhouse door. They peered into windows and saw the children's bodies sprawled over floors of two rooms of the six-room farmhouse. Four hours later police bloodhounds lead searchers to the father's body in a near-by woods. His A10 gauge shotgun lay near by. Robert Tyndall, Mrs. King's brother, said King had brought his wife to the Tyndall home near here earlier today. He said that she told him "Rufus won't let me see the children and he beat me." Mr. Tyndall said his brother, Otis Tyndall, signed the warrant charging King with assault. Mrs. King spent the remainder of the night at the brother's home. Clinton is an eastern North Carolina farming center, sixty miles southeast of Raleigh

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Rufus Allen King's memorial is located at: Darden Cemetery, Clinton, Sampson County, USA.
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Rufus Allen King death on 2 Oct 1956 in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, USA

Family Members:

Parent

Zebulon Joseph King

(1876 - 1956)

Addie Ella Weeks King

(1881 - 1923)

Spouse

Alice Christine Tyndall King Fields

(1928 - 2003)

Siblings

(1899 - 1970)

(1901 - 1985)

(1903 - 1977)

(1909 - 1982)

(1913 - 1913)

(1914 - 1979)

(1916 - 2003)

(1919 - 1920)

(1927 - 2008)

Children

(1946 - 1956)

(1947 - 1956)

(1949 - 1956)

(1951 - 1956)

(1953 - 1956)

(1954 - 1956)

Flowers:

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