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ADVENTIST : The Autobiography Of Joseph Pyram King 1848 — 1948 of Wilmington, North Carolina & Jacksonville, Florida Together With His Heresy Or No Heresy? being his 1880 Defense Against Heresy Charges, Edited by Wesley E. Bassett Bluefish Books Cowart Communications Jacksonville, Florida www.bluefishbooks.info ADVENTIST: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH PYRAM KING Copyright © 2006 by John W. Cowart. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America by Lulu Press. Apart from reasonable fair use practices, no part of this book’s text may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address Bluefish Books, 2805 Ernest St., Jacksonville, Florida, 32205. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for. Lulu Press # 235089 ISBN 978-1-4116-7980-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2006922904 Lulu Press number: 235089 Photo Credits: King family photos are courtesy of Cheryl McClellan, Larry Walker, John P. King, & Wes Bassett Old Wilmington, N.C., photos are from the website archives of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society www.latimerhouse.org . They carry no copyright notice. Bluefish Books Cowart Communications Jacksonville, Florida www.bluefishbooks.info This publication is dedicated to my son Trevor James Dennis, The Next Link In The Chain Stand up, Son, and be the right kind of man! — Pappy And to my late granddaughter, Sande Dawn Jordan, My little China Doll — Paw Paw Other Bluefish Books You May Enjoy include: Glog A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad The Lazarus Projects I’m Confused About Prayer Letters From Stacy Crackers & Carpetbaggers Strangers On The Earth Gravedigger’s Christmas & Other Tales Heroes All: A History of Firefighting In Jacksonville Rebel Yell: The Civil War Diary of J.T. Whatley, CSA John Cowart’s Daily blog can be found at www.cowart.info/blog/ Bluefish Books Cowart Communications Jacksonville, Florida www.bluefishbooks.info Introduction by Wesley E. Bassett J oseph P. King, "Grandpa" to me, has been one of my principal heroes and mentors. He died five years before I was born. I only know him through my adopted grandmother, who was one of his older granddaughters. For several years during my adolescence, I spent at least hundreds of hours sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table talking about Jesus Christ, the Bible, and Grandpa. It was my grandmother's genuine Christianity, the result of Grandpa's teaching and preaching that convinced me that I needed to believe on Christ. Grandpa was the defining influence on her and on most of those in her generation of the family, the generation before, and at least one generation after. He was also enormously influential on his townsmen, parishioners, and patients. He was also the defining influence on my adolescent development, and, through all my life to this point, influences me still. I found a reference to him in a local history of the North Carolina Piedmont area, written in 1902. There he is called, "The almost legendary Joseph P. King." It amazes me that one man could affect so many people for so long. And, almost sixty years after his death, he has become a principal influence on my sixteen-year-old son, Trevor. This autobiography was dictated to Grandpa's daughter, Theodosia Grant, in about 1926. My grandmother told me that Grandpa was lying on the bed in his room taking his customary afternoon rest, and he called Theodosia and told her to bring some paper and something to write with. Grandpa dictated this account during several of these sessions, and Theodosia wrote it out in pencil in two school composition books. These books were loaned to me in the 1970s and I typed them out in manuscript form. The text is as nearly an exact representation of the manuscript as possible. The grammar is mostly unedited. This is the way Grandpa talked. I left it that way. My thanks to John Cowart of Bluefish Books for his assistance with this book. I hope you, the reader, draw inspiration and courage from the uncommon life of this common man. —— Wesley Bassett E-Mail: [email protected] PHOTO SECTION: J.P. & Eliza King’s 50th Anniversary Photo, 1916 1949 newspaper article
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