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DESCENDANT OF PIONEER FAMILY DIES IN TORONTO
EDITH MARLING KING
[Welland Tribune, 22 February 1947]
The death occurred at Wellesley hospital in Toronto yesterday, of a descendant of one of Welland County’s pioneer families in the person of Edith Marling King, native of Port Colborne, resident of St. Catharines for some years, and member of the staff of the Provincial Legislative Library at parliament buildings, Toronto, for the past 45 years.
The body is resting at the A.W. Miles funeral chapel, 30 St. Clair Avenue west, Toronto, where funeral services will be conducted at 1 o’clock, Monday afternoon. Interment will be in Victoria Lawn cemetery, St. Catharines at 4 p.m. Monday.
The late Miss King was the daughter of the late Col. Dr. Frank King, who for some years was a prominent Port Colborne physician and who moved to St. Catharines about 1893 or 1894. Geo. H. Smith, local historian, recalled this morning when advised of the death. The late Dr. King had his office and home in the residence at the south-west corner of Catharine and Clarence streets, more recently the home of Edward Monck. He was prominently identified with the old Welland Canal Field Battery.
Miss King was a granddaughter of the late Col. Richard King, of Port Robinson, who lost a leg in the Fenian raid.
A brother, Brig. General William King, resides in Toronto, and a sister, Mrs. Esten Fletcher, (Maude) resides in Cobourg. Another sister, Daisy, predeceased her.
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