Emma KING and Jennie KING
picture: 1890's, San Antonio, Texas
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: w?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:
| NAME | REL | COLOR | AGE | MAR | OCCUPATION | BORN | FATHER BORN | MOTHER BORN |
| Edie King | hd | mu | 30 | wid | keeping house | GA | ||
| Jennie King | dau | mu | 10 | s | none | MS | GA | GA |
| Emma King | dau | mu | 8 | s | none | MS | GA | GA |
Sometime between 1880 and 1896 Edith and her family moved to San Antonio, Texas.
Emma Ann KING married Henry Lawson GOINGS on July 11, 1896 in San Antonio, Texas. They had two children:
Jennie (Geneva) GOINGSb. June 30, 1897; m. Clayborne COOKSEY, 1918; m. Columbus MORRIS, 1926
Raymond GOINGSb. 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, their children, and her sister Jennie McGee moved to California.
My grandmother always said that she moved to California when she was 3 years old - which would be about 1901. Family tradition is that Emma and Jennie ran a restaurant in Palo Alto for a time. However, the first documentation I've been able to find of my g-grandmother Emma in California is the 1910 census where she was living in a boarding house at 442 Ninth Street in Long Beach as Emma SAMPLE* as follows:
| NAME | REL | AGE | COL | BORN | OCCUPATION |
| Emma Sample | head | mu | Miss | manicurist w. private family | |
| Jennie Goings | dau | 12 | mu | Texas | none |
| Raymond Goings | son | 9 | mu | Texas | none |
There are also two "boarders" living with the family: Naomi and Frank BOYD aged 9 and 7.
*Regarding the mysterious Mr. SAMPLE, according to my mother, the marriage did not work out because of the children. I have not been able to find any additional evidence of this marriage. In the 1917 city directory, Emma stated she was a widow.
On September 6, 1902 Jennie KING married Mathew Harry McGEE (b. 1864, Missouri - d. 1915?, Los Angeles) in Los Angeles, California. In the 1910 census Mathew H. McGee and his wife Jennie McGee are living at 2163 11th Street in Los Angeles. His occupation is listed as janitor. Jennie is a homemaker and states that she has had 1 child, none living. Since family tradition stated that Jennie never had any children this was a small surprise. Mathew Harry McGee probably died about 1915.
By 1918 the sisters were living together in Glendale at 310 W. Vine, my grandmother was also living with them. Raymond was probably living in Long Beach. 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.
The Ascot Courts
picture: circa 1921
Emma died March 14, 1926. Jennie died on November 16 of the same year. They are both interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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