WILLIAM KING EASLEY
Transcribed by Cathryn Jex Millburn
William King Easley, b 1825 in Pickens County, South Carolina, d 1872 in Atlanta, Georgia while on a business trip - was a son of John Allen Easley, b 1781 in Virginia, d before 1860 in Pickens County, South Carolina, and his wife, Elizabeth (King) Easley, b 1800 South Carolina.
William was a scholar, a student of science, history, and law, and was admitted to the bar at an early age. He moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1850 to set up a law practice, but because of a yellow fever epidemic, he returned to set up an office in the Pickens County, South Carolina courthouse-later moving to Greenville, South Carolina.
William King Easley was married in 1853 to Caroline Sloan, b 1831 in South Carolina, d 1871 in Greenville, South Carolina just a few months before her husband's death.
Easley helped to organize the State of South Carolina Militia, and was appointed Adjutant General. Raising a company of soldiers from Pickens and Greenville counties, he was commissioned a Major. He was a Signer of the Seccession Ordinance. During the Civil War, he contracted typhoid fever, and returned to Greenville. At the end of the war, Major William King Easley was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. The town of Easley, South Carolina, was named in his honor.
William and Caroline had five of six children to survive to adulthood:
John Allen Easley, b October 24, 1853, d April 8, 1921 - married Nancy Tupper Hyde, b February 3, 1859. Their son, William King Easley, II, b March 7, 1885, d February 26, 1958, was a Captain in the Quartermaster Corps, World War 1, and buried in Greenville, South Carolina.
Thomas Sloan Easley, b February 10, 1855, d October 14, 1858, in Greenville, South Carolina.
Robert Easley, b March 19, 1860 in Greenville, South Carolina, d August 13, 1956 in Rosebud, Falls County, Texas, married Mary Susan Tennill of Taylor, Texas.
Ogier King Easley, b April 7, 1862 in Greenville, South Carolina, d June 13, 1939 at Rosebud, Texas married Amelia Albertina Roecker of Glen Flora, Texas.
Thrace Easley, b April 15, 1868 in Greenville, South Carolina, d January 17, 1963 in Greenville, South Carolina - married Thomas S. Mauldin, b May 11, 1870, d January 29, 1931 in Greenville, South Carolina.
Copyright permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing the bios of these Falls County Families to this web page. "Families of Falls County", compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 132, column 1.
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