“Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young; guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.”
Mr. Roy”: King of Catahoula
INFANT LEE ROY KING shortly after his birth in 1908 with parents Berta Smithson King and Jerome L. King.
ROY AND TOT KING at the Hoover Dam
ROY KING FAMILY: Roy King and Alice “Tot” King (center seated) Standing left to right: J.R. King, Charles “Hub” King, Lee “Cooter” King, Jeanette King Delhoste, and Bobby King.
SOME KING FAMILY MEMBERS who were at work at King’s Fish Market the day of this interview. (Left to right) Ken King, Kirby King, J.R. King, Bobby King, Charles “Hubnut” King, Lee “Cooter” King, Mr. Roy King, and Ronnie King.
ROY KING at the tomb of writer Edgar Allen Poe in Baltimore in 1987.
Cicero DeSinectute XI It was a cool but clear morning on November 14, 2002 when I interviewed Mr. Roy King at the fish market he founded on Fish Market Road just upriver from Trinity.We sat with coats on in his office which joins a large shed area. It was cold enough that Mr. Roy had the heater on. We were comfortable and alone, door...