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Frances A. King, wife of the founder of King's Fort in 1840, pioneered with great courage and enthusiasm in the Republic of Texas. After King's death in 1846, she later, as Mrs. Tabor, entered and won election of Kingsborough for county seat of the newly organized Kaufman County. In April 1851 she deeded 75 acres for a townsite and a 75-acre timber tract to county commissioners James W. Love, J. Larkin Austin, and John W. Terrell. King's Fort had grown into the village of Kingsborough, later given the same name as the county.
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Kaufman, Texas · United States
