John Wallace King was born in 1864 in Bluff, New Zealand, to John and Elizabeth King.
John Wallace King married Janet Watson Burgess in 1888.
John and Janet King being served tea by daughter Margaret, at Bluff, circa 1910.
John died as the result of an accident on 2 September 1913, at the Southland Hospital, Invercargill. Residence was at Slaney St, Bluff; buried in Campbelltown (Bluff) Cemetery.