Tintype photograph
 Eda/Edie King(?)

Mississippi

In the 1870 Census, Hillsboro P.O., Scott County, Mississippi I found the following family:

James KING, head, age 30, race: m, born in Alabama, occ: schoolteacher

Eda KING, age 20, race: m, born in Georgia. occ: keeping house.

They had two children:

Jennie KING, b. 1870; m. Mathew Harry McGee, 1902 in Los Angeles

Emma Ann KING, b. 1872; m. Henry Lawson GOINGS, 1896 in San Antonio

By 1880, Edie KING was a widow, living alone with her daughters in Beat #4, Hillsboro. Family tradition is that James King was robbed and murdered and his body "left in the swamp." This is how the family looked in 1880:

Sometime between 1880 and 1896 Edith and her family moved to San Antonio, Texas.

Texas

Emma Ann and Jennie KING, ca 189? San Antonio, Texas

Emma Ann KING married Henry Lawson GOINGS on July 11, 1896 in San Antonio, Texas. They had two children:

Jennie (Geneva) GOINGS b. June 30, 1897; m. Clayborne COOKSEY, 1918; m. Columbus MORRIS, 1926

Raymond GOINGS b. November 13, 1899; m. Vestula Lewis, 1935

In the 1900 Census the GOINGS family was living at 339 Virginia St., San Antonio, Texas. They owned their home.

Lawson GOINGS died of tuberculosis March 24, 1901. He was buried in city cemetery #2, in San Antonio, Texas.

Shortly after his death Emma and their children moved to California.

California

In the 1920 census the sisters are enumerated as a household, they own their house and both are retired.

About this time they built the "courts" on the 5100 block of Ascot Street, in Los Angeles. They moved there sometime after 1922. My mother was born here.

Emma died March 14, 1926.  Her sister Jennie died on November 16 of the same year. They are both interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles.