While Cecilia is on the train to Los Angeles, let’s look at some of the players in this drama:

Appendix 5 – “Uncle Arthur” Arthur King (1890-1943)

Graduated from University of Arkansas with a degree in Civil Engineering. Served in France during World War I as an officer in the 14th Engineer Regiment . After the war, he became a doctor of optometry and was practicing that profession in El Paso at the time of his death from a heart attack (Cecilia King Butt, 1990) He never married.

Figure 116 - Caples Building, El paso (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth613574/m1/1/) 702

Figure 117 - El pas Herald-Post January 24, 1938 (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/51369/images/News-TE-EL_PA_HE-1938_01_24-0007?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=sRm33&_phstart=successSource&pId=491839495&rcstate=News-TE-EL_PA_HE-1938_01_24-0007%3A521%2C1779%2C662%2C1821%3B1569%2C2217%2C1712%2C2250%3B786%2C5742%2C935%2C5775%3B776%2C5788%2C931%2C5821%3B1850%2C3308%2C1962%2C3341%3B2129%2C5158%2C2361%2C5179%3B274%2C1779%2C485%2C1821)