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 E. King and Homer D. King
Homer Duncan King, who was born in 1897, began his journalism career as a young man, first on the "Hemet News," then the "Redlands Daily Facts" and the "San Bernardino Sun-Telegram" before becoming managing editor of the "Nevada State Journal" and finally of the "Hollywood Citizen-News." He held all those positions before he was age 30.