[2] Prior to her baptism, she had read the Book of Mormon (1830), A Voice of Warning (1837) by Parley P. Pratt, and Divine Authority or the Question Was Joseph Smith Sent of God?

She was a simpleminded girl; but her tact and respectful ingenuity in presenting the subject won my attention, and I listened, not thinking or even dreaming that her words were about to revolutionize my life.

My good husband [Thomas], although not persuaded to join the church, consented to emigrate with us to Utah, which we did in the year 1853, bringing quite a little company with us at Mr. King's expense.

"She, her husband Thomas (who never joined the LDS Church), and their 4 surviving children left Liverpool, England on January 25, 1853, with 321 Mormons on the Golconda to emigrate to New Orleans, Louisiana in America.

After traveling up the Mississippi River, they left Keokuk, Iowa on May 27, 1853, with other Mormon pioneers of the Claudius Victor Spencer Company headed for Utah.

She had been pleased to sit beside and dance with church president Brigham Young (who had arrived in Utah in 1847 with the first Mormon pioneers) in 1856.

Her husband, Thomas, was not a member of the LDS Church which held that she could only secure exaltation through sealing with a "righteous man".

An admirer of the English poet Eliza Cook, King indulged her feelings mainly in that direction, publishing in 1879, Songs of the Heart.

[9] King wrote of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Columbus, Salvator Rosa and Disraeli, Napoleon and Josephine, Victoria and Elizabeth, the last of whom she somewhat resembled at times in an imperious manner, though her usual mode was one of sympathy, and her nature, one capable of enduring attachment, and unfaltering love.