Bardin King and Elizabeth Susan Salter married in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1842, traveled west by wagon the following year with their young son William and Susan’s parents and siblings, and settled in Louisiana, where Bardin grew cotton successfully before the extended family moved to Texas in the late 1850s, living first in Navarro and Washington counties and then arriving in Limestone County in 1870. There the Kings bought 189 acres from John and Lucinda Wilson, raised cotton and grains, and took an active role in the Headsville community. Bardin served as a lay minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and his sons John, Cullen, and Moses later served in the same capacity, while his youngest son Finley became an ordained Baptist minister. Bardin was also a charter member of the local Masonic lodge and active in the Patrons of Husbandry, or Grange. After Susan King died in March 1879, her family buried her on the farm, and in 1881 Bardin divided his property among his nine living children and set aside one acre for a graveyard. Daughter Susan Leuticia married Robert Holden Williams, and they and their children later continued cotton and corn farming on the family land. Ten members of the King and Williams families were buried in what became known as King Williams Memorial Cemetery and then King-Williams Cemetery. Robert H. Williams, who died in 1944, was the last person buried there, in a graveyard marked by historic limestone headstones shaded by pine and cedar trees. Family tradition also holds that an African American freedman named Speight is buried there in an unmarked grave.