Confusingly there is a McClung Museum (part of UTK) and a McClung Historical Collection (part of the library system) here in Knoxville.

He served until March 31, 1866, when he mustered out as a sergeant. After the war he farmed various plots of land in west Knox County. He died sometime between 1891 and 1900. He appears on the 1895 Map of Knox County as a landowner straddling the 10th and 11th Civil Districts.

King was born enslaved around 1829 in either Anderson or Knox County, TN. He was most likely enslaved by William Moorefield who lived near Concord. King enlisted in the US Army on January 26, 1864, joining Co. A, 1st USCT Heavy Artillery.

(It isn’t clear to me if this says Wm. Or Mr. O’Dell and I was unable to find a Black William O’Dell in Knox County, there was a white one from Maryland which would be intriguing.)

An interesting document included within the marriage records is a witness affidavit from First Presbyterian minister Rev. James Park, attesting to witnessing the marriage ceremony of King Moorefield and Jane O’Dell at the O’Dell home near Ebenezer.

The first marriage is that of Charles Moore and Mary Blackwell on June 10, 1865, just weeks following the end of the Civil War. These early marriages record what might be some of their first acts as citizens of the US, and it is telling that some chose to cement their partnerships under the law.

In 1972, Samuel wrote to Congressman John Duncan Sr., lamenting his losses in the move and outlining the harassment and theft he sustained during the urban renewal period. It is not know if the missive was answered. Samuel died in 1982.

his residence and business, paying him $7,500 for the residence and barber shop, before ultimately tearing them down. Nothing has been built in that location in the intervening decades.

Following John Samuel's death in 1919, Beauford and Joseph's older brother Samuel took over the barbershop at 815 E. Vine, where he and his mother continued to reside. In 1966, the Knoxville Housing Authority, as part of the Mountain View Urban Renewal Project, forced Samuel to move…

Both Beauford and Joseph would move to New York City and become active in the artistic period known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Joseph remained in NYC until returning to Knoxville in 1986, while Beauford moved to Paris in 1953, where his abstract expressionist style blossomed.

While teenagers attending Austin High School, the pair of brothers worked at Post Sign Company, where local artist Lloyd Branson noticed their work. He would eventually mentor Beauford, as he did with a number of other burgeoning artists of the period including Catherine Wiley.

..when the city forced them to sell their property and move east to Brooks Avenue. Their present building was built in 1970 and designed by renowned architectural firm McKissack and McKissack.

and includes the area surrounding the Coliseum that the Knoxville Housing Authority acquired and demolished. This house was bought by his parents in 1924, 3 years after his birth.