Statesville Record & Landmark, 9 September 1937. 

A grand jury indicted 21 year-old Jack King for housebreaking. At trial, Mrs. Larry Strickland testified that King had entered her bedroom while she was asleep and touched her leg. Per the Wilson Daily Times, King pleaded guilty to the housebreaking charge, but the judge rejected the plea and ordered stronger charges brought against King. The solicitor obliged, and the grand jury indicted him for first degree burglary, which was generally defined as burglary with intent to rape, a capital crime. King pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and was sentenced to life in prison.

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In the 1920 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: York King, 36; wife Annie, 30; children Dock, 14, David, 12, Shandy, 10, Almeta, 7, Isaac, 3, and Annie, 1; brother Jack, 46; and nephews James, 13, and Jack, 6.

In the 1930 census of Stantonsburg township, Wilson County: Jack King, 51; wife Nancy, 25, farm laborer; children Sadie B., 8, Cora, 12, and Jack, 16; and lodger Roland Barnes, 24.

In 1943, Jack King Jr. registered for the World War II draft in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Per his registration card, which was transferred to Wilson County, he was born 10 June 1914 in Wilson; his permanent address was Route 4, Wilson; his contact was father Jack King Sr., 618 Darden Alley, Wilson; and he was “employed” by N.C. State Prison, Camp No. 1007, Hendersonville, Henderson County, N.C.

In the 1950 census of Prison Camp 1007, Hendersonville, Henderson County: Jack King, 33, prisoner, never married.

Jack King died 27 April 1996 in Wilson.