KING, George A.

The Phoenix Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona Saturday, July 18, 1953 Rites Planned For Pioneer PRESCOTT, July 18 (AP) - George A. King, who was the oldest guest in the Arizona Pioneers Home here, will be buried Tuesday following 1 p.m. services p.m. in the Ruffner Funeral Home. I King, 97, who had lived in Arizona since 1898, died Thursday. He raised livestock in the Congress and. Wickenburg districts until entering the home in 1945. Among survivors is a grand-niece, Air Force Second Lt. Charlotte L. King, of Phoenix. However he made it clear that he is not related to the King family of Cattle ranch fame. Dan Fain, prominent Yavapai county cattleman, once was a foreman for one of King's horse galtherings ering outfits, working south Flagstaff with a crew of 10 men. These men" King recalled ‘were as fine a bunch of horse gatherers as I ever got together.' He recalls some of the members of the crew working under Fain, bill Goswick, Charles Hollings – (rest of article missing.) ------------ The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Thursday, July 23, 1953 George A. King Prescott - (AP) - The funeral of George A. King, 97-year-old former stockman, will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday in the Ruffner Funeral Home here. King, the oldest guest in the Arizona Pioneers Home, died yesterday. He came to Arizona in 1898 and raised livestock in the Wickenburg and Congress districts until entering the home in 1945. He came to here with the intention of making Arizona home when he came to this state in 1898 to seek out the animals. He found Arizona such a lucrative ‘home country’ that he remained here. King purchased only range stock, most of it wild and it took an experienced range and horse man to round up the critters and drive them to the shipping points from 50 to 100 miles distant. During his long career, King went to every section of Arizona in quest of the wild stock, most of which was converted into work animals. Many of them were mares used for breeding purposes. King and his crew broke many of the animals before shipping them. He and his brothers spent part of one winter at the Garden City ranch of one of them breaking between 700 and 800 fine animals which had been secured in Idaho and Oregon. He paid from $ 5 to $ 20 for them majority of the range stock, depending upon the size and quality of them, but some of the horses brought as high as $ 50 a head, such as the stock from Oregon and Idaho which were broken with particular pains that winter in Garden City. These horses were exceptionally large and made prize work animals. King believes the largest heard of horses he ever bought in one bunch was the 3,000 head he and (rest of article missing) ------------------------ The Yavapai Messenger, Prescott, Arizona Thursday, July 23, 1953 Funeral Held For Geo. King, Oldest Pioneer Home Guest Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Hal Dallke, pastor of the Methodist Church, on Tuesday afternoon, at the Ruffner Chapel for George A. King, who died July 16. Oldest guest at the Pioneers' Home, which he entered in 1945, King was born in Caldwell county, Texas. He came to Arizona in 1898 and was a stockman, dealing mostly in horses, much of his time since then in the Congress – Wickenburg region, He entered the home from Yavapai County in 1945. He is survived bv a sister-in-law, Mrs. Bland King, Hutchinson, Kan.; a brother, Sam King, also of Hutchinson; a niece, Mrs. D. B. Hill, Lakewood, Colo.; and a grand-niece, Second Lt. Charlotte L. King, in the Air Force in Phoenix. Following the chapel services interment took place in Congress, where he was buried between his brother, J. W. King, and an uncle, C. I. Bruce.