Blue Ridge Mountain Kinfolks A Record of Ancestors, Descendants, and Relatives of the Author and Wife, Including Fisher-Gilbert-Hall-Hartley-Hill-King-Kirby-Lawson Families

Smith King was born in Virginia in 1825. Early in life he was living in the Loafers Rest Community of Wythe and Carroll Counties, Virginia, so he could have been born there. He married Nancy Alley, daughter of David and Sarah Alley, in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1848. They had five children. He served in the Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army, during the Civil War and died while a prisoner of war at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, 12 August 1864. Descendants lived in Virginia and elsewhere.