KING, E. Handley – Resident of El Paso in 1856, when his home was used for the first school. His mother and her sister, Mrs. Cooper, were teachers in this private school. It was located where the D. H. Roth residence now stands, corner of First and Pine Streets (NW corner).

KINGDON, Charles (1826-1863) and Elizabeth Wilkey (1830- 1901) – Charles and Elizabeth farmed in Panola Twp. in 1859. In 1861 Charles left his wife with three little children run the farm and joined Company E., 108th Illinois Infantry, to serve in the Civil War. He died of disease in the Milliken's Bend epidemic in 1863 during the early phases of the Vicksburg Campaign. He was a brother of Henry Kingdon of Panola Twp. and James Kingdon of Kickapoo.

KINGDON, Henry and Mary Hodge (1835-1902) – Henry was born June 7, 1830 in Devonshire, England, and died April 11, 1909 in El Paso. He came to the United States in 1852, and after living in Northern Illinois, Iowa, and Kickapoo, Illinois, he purchased the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 35 in Panola Twp. and began farming it in the spring of 1859, building a two-room cabin there. His grandson, Alfred Kingdon, lived there in 1953. He is the ancestor of all today's male-line Kingdons in El Paso. Children born to Mary and Henry were: William, Lewis, Mary (Andrews), Percy, George, Sidney and Fannie (Bonar) and Miss Annie.

KINGSTON, George W. (Jr.) – George Kingston, Jr. was the son of the early pioneer, George Kingston, Sr. He patented the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 9 in Panola Twp., May 18, 1854, and in order to live out the winter on the prairies, purchased the wood-lot in Section 33 in Greene Twp. on April 23, 1855, after apparently using it that winter. This was usual for prairie settlers: buying a strip of woods for fuel and building use.

George Kingston, Jr. eventually owned 320 acres of land in Panola Twp. On May 9, 1868 his neighbor, David J. Hedges, was building a fence across the public highway, where neighbors had repeatedly torn it down, and brought along a revolver to back up his apparently illegal fence job. George remonstrated with him, and took away his revolver and started back to his own home with it. Hedges came after him with a hatchet he had been using, and in the ensuing fight Kingston hit Hedges with a spade, from which blow he soon died. This on the southeast 40 acres of Section 9, Panola Twp. Kingston was indicted for manslaughter, and after many delays, came to trial on August 13, 1869, and was acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. It is interesting to note that Kingston's lawyers were Robert G. Ingersoll, Joseph J. Cassell, John Burns and John T. Harper, the case being tried in the Metamora Courthouse, State's Attorney: S. M. Garrat and associate: W. G. Randall. The costs of the case and its resulting publicity seemed to have caused Kingston's removal from Panola Twp., and research has not yet disclosed where he went or what happened to him thereafter. Like his father, he had always had an excellent reputation.

KINGSTON, George (Sr.) – One of the earliest of all permanent residents in Woodford County, having settled in Spring Bay in 1823, only four years after Blaylock was found there. Kingston continued to reside in Woodford County many years, and his name is frequently in the early County histories. He was on the first petit jury panel at Versailles Court in 1841. He was an old man and ill at the time of his son's famous trial in 1869.

KINGSTON, Samuel B. – Believed living in Panola or Greene Twps. in 1853 when he bought a "lot" in the NW 1/4 of Section 7, Panola Twp. He was no doubt a relative of George Kingston, Sr. and George W. Kingston, Jr.

KIRKLIN, James – James was born in 1825. He was killed in a great windstorm of May 13, 1858 near El Paso. Another great windstorm with much hail occurred here on May 15, 1915, but with no fatalities.

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