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Pioneer Collections Report of the
Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Vol. 2
pub. Wm. Graham's Presses, Detroit, 1880

         pg 504

         Mr. A. K. KING, an old and respected pioneer of Tuscola county, died
	 in Kingston the town was named after him on the 4th of September,
	 1878, aged sixty-eight. He located there in 1857. and with his faithful
	 wife endured all the privations and hardships to which the early
	 settlers were exposed. He at one time carried the mail from Vassar to
	 Port Sanilac. Much of the road over which he traveled was only a trail.
	 This was an exceedingly difficult, as well as dangerous, undertaking at
	 that early day. His family were supported principally by what he could
	 bring from Vassar and Wahjamega on his back. While he was exposed
	 to danger from storms, wild beasts and water, for streams and swampy
	 places had to be forded, sometimes the water reaching to the waist, his
	 wife (who preceded him in death nearly two years), was left to protect
	 and care for the family. All the neighbors she had for the first five
	 months after moving to Kingston were the Indians never seeing the
	 face of a white woman for that length of time. He leaves a family of
         seven, all married and settled in comfortable homes.

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