The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-15
THE KINGS
AND THELEES
Their Striking Likeness to One
Another Due to Common
Ancestry.
NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING
One Being Erected in Greens
boro Has Tower for Es-
pionage Purposes.
NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING
,srs.,,, 70 The rlmes.Dlspatch.)

ESPECIAL to The Tlmes-Dlspateh'
GREENSBORO. n. c., Nov li.-Wai-
ter ". King OF Danbury. who is mere
to-day on his way to attend the Supreme
Court. has many doubles, distinguished
md otherwise Last night he was greet
Cd az Colonel Osborne, Greensboro's
Mayor; In half an hour some one eise
had inquired If he was not General f'tz-
hugh Lee, and everybody has ho.ea ms
resemblance to Grover Cleveland. MT.
John King, of this city, is enough IKE
General Lee TO be his brother.
Sneakine of this resemblance or lhe
1inps Ia The Lees, for the first time To-
dav the matter was explained. ne
grandmother of these sterling Gnllioro
county men was a Lee, and was Oh the
stock which has produced SO many sp'ei'-
did Nirginians.
Mr King and Colonel Morehead were
taking of people and things. when II was
also learned that at the King homestead
in this county, three miles from Oak
Ridge lie an old graveyard In which re-
rose the bones of the Immediate anees-
tors OF the once celebrated ). Frocto'
Knott, of Kentucky. The FANNY ehi-
Grated 10 Kentucky a lite while after
~, Shir,h ~ the future humorist and poll
tcian. There are many OF that name
7ret IN that section of Guilford and IN the
adjoining county of Forsyth, but the pa
rarts ~ Proctor owned the lands which
thf old KIM homestead covers. ana the
large landed estate connected Win IL
For a Ions time the graveyard "ae
kept UP by The elder King, out II, mas
now grown up In a thlck ioies - p,,,s
trees. and many OF the headstones' Hlaue
of soapstone. tell Of the deaths or gener-
ations of Knots When MIR. Pendleton
KING brother to Messrs. John, wafer
and Robert, was at home several yea, .
ago he spent much Of his time at tre oio
homestead. and made transcripts lroli
the historically valuable and QUAINT m
scriptions on the stones ana se ,t t,,a
TO proctor Knott. who acknowledged llle 9
,;ndress i, letter of rare pathos and
elCquence
r. ia said that the Knots originally
owned all that section lying between
Bellows Creek and Dan River. II seems
to have been another instance OF tne
Knott plant being one to nourlsn W
tfansplantlng, for 1t has been olstln-
r-uished name in Kentucky for two gen
erations One the other hand. the elder
kim. took what Knott had left, stayed
in North Carolina raised six sons, every
one of whom have become eminent anu
valuable and prosperous citizens.
Work on the new $1,000 annex to the
government building here Is prosress.hs
randy now. When completed Green's
horo will have the most pu-to-date post
oe1ce IN the state. There is one thing the
h,;ildnc will have that no other once
in the State has, and that Is tower III
the postof1ice for the use of postoflce IN
s,,ectors or detectives. This tower Is
ABOUT ten feet square and VIII nave open-
iDgs so that person VINO Is IN the to"ei
can see over the entire postoitlce without
the occupant being observed. Inc en-
trance to the tower will be from the base
ment. and neither the employees IN the
rostoffice nor the postmaster VIII kho"
when an Inspector is in this tower LOOK
ing down upon them and seeing tha a..
their work is being done correctly, All
the keys to the lookout tower WIZ pe
kept in Washington.
THE SMALL WORLD
Two Illinois farmers who were on a
tour of inspection in the South, having
visited Ave points In this ana otnei
States, looking for suitable location foi
thirty families OF farmers, spent nearly
"a week in this county. They left yester'
day for Illinois to make report OF thell
Investigation They will return IN 8
month, and will probably close bargain
for several tracts in the county.
An illustration of how small the world
Is occurred during the trip In compnn!
with Me- j. Stewart Kuykendali, the!
visited the Guilford battle srouhu' I've
siding there is one OF the most success
f,,l farmers and physicians In the county
stopping at the gate, the Doctor wa
called out by Mr.. Kuykendall. On heinl
introduced to the visitors the Docto
asked Mr.. Jones what part OF Illinois
he came from. From the southern part,
vas the answer. What is your frs
name?" inquired the Doctor. "Jethro.
was the response. GOD bless You, m:
ha q
yanced and twined his arms around tn
astonished man.
The Doctor gave an explanation OF hi
unusual emotion. and the result wa
that Mr.. Jethro Jones and he spent thre
whole days together.
In 1851 left Virginia for the West.
had good education and was success,
fu, at first, but struck hard luck after
wards lost my health and what none
/ had and was all to pieces. Wanderin
around ] concluded TO try at modes