King, Benjamin Franklin

Submitted by Robert L. King

Photo taken around 1900
The King home was built in the late 1800's by Benjamin Franklin King. The house is gone now. But it once stood on the edge of the bluff that used to be there, where the wire Plant stands. The man sitting on top of the fence on the right is Benjamin Franklin King, the woman in the back at house is Nancy Cassandra Coleman King, the girl on the left is Margaret Melissa King. The four boys would be Walter Benjamin King, John Coleman King, Allen King and James King.

Benjamin settled in the Jena area right after the Civil War. He died in 1909 and is interned in the Forsythia Cemetery

In the Photo from Left to Right

Front Row : John Coleman King, Nancy Cassandra Coleman King, James Butler
King, Benjamin Franklin King, and Allen King

Back Row : Allie Mable King, Walter Benjamin King, and Margaret Melissa
King.

The oldest, Walter Benjamin King is the one that started the old Jena Bottling Works.

Some of Benjamin Franklin King's Family:
John Coleman King, born Dec. 1, 1886 died Nov. 24, 1941 Interned in Nolley Memorial Cemetery in Jena, La. James Butler King, born Feb. 1, 1894 died May 23, 1946 Interned in Greenwood Cemetery at Ruston, La. Margaret Melissa King, born Oct. 23, 1872 died Nov. 22, 1957 Interned in Forsythia Cemetery at Jena, La. All born in Jena at the King Home, the same house I was born in. John Coleman King was an engineer on a steam locomotive.

Jena Bottling Works
The Jena Bottling Works was once located by the old ice plant owned by the King Famly. The bottling works closed in 1929. [photo not available]