{"id":1112,"date":"2023-02-25T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:15:58","slug":"thurmon-king-sackett-family-association-historian-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Thurmon King, Sackett Family Association historian, won all hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/kingthurmon2009-150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1113\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thurmon King<br>(1930\u20132022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Thurmon King, who died aged 92 on 30 December 2022, was a founder member of the Sackett Family Association in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarded as the expert on the American Sackett lines, he accumulated a large database of Sackett genealogy, continuing to add to it for many years as the Association&#8217;s Historian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In earlier times, the Revd Thurmon King had been pastor of several churches in Nevada, California, and Washington State, supplementing his modest church stipend with other jobs, notably as a skilled metal worker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After retiring from active ministry, he established and ran a trucking business. Not forgetting his calling, he would say that he didn&#8217;t leave the ministry, but rather, he &#8220;took it on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thurmon was a regular attendee at Sackett reunions, contributing much to the success of the gatherings. He won all hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g0\/p1.htm#i5\">More on Thurmon King, including obituary and Sackett Family Association members&#8217; memories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurmon King, who died aged 92 on 30 December 2022, was a founder member of the Sackett Family Association in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-association","category-members","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}