B.B. King
Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925, on the Berclair cotton plantation near the town of Itta Bena, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers Albert and Nora Ella King. He considered the nearby city of Indianola, Mississippi to be his home. When King was four years old, his mother left his father for another man, so he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Elnora Farr, in Kilmichael, Mississippi.
John A. King (1817–1900)
King was born on July 14, 1817 in Jamaica, Queens County, New York. He was the second son of children born to New York Governor John Alsop King (1788–1867) and Mary (née Ray) King (1790–1873). His brother was Charles Ray King and his sister, Elizabeth Ray King, was married to U.S. Congressman Henry Bell Van Rensselaer.