Anna King

8 December 1847–23 February 1929 (Age 81)
Monroe, Kentucky, United States

The Life Summary of Anna

When Anna King was born on 8 December 1847, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States, her father, Albert Alphonso King, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Steen, was 21. She married Benjamin N Burnett on 21 February 1870, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Hardyville, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Civil District 3, Sumner, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died on 23 February 1929, in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Evergreen, Nassau, Florida, United States.

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Family Time Line

Calvin C Silcox
1837–1911
Anna King
1847–1929
Marriage: 24 June 1877
Thomas Reese Cox
1860–1941
Cora Burnett
–
Cicero Cox
1879–1966
Calvin Allen “Callie” Silcox/Cox
1881–1919

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    24 June 1877Clay, Tennessee, United States
    • Children

    (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (9)

    +4 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1850 · 8th Most Populated State
    Age 3
    According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
    1863
    Age 16
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 23
    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    Name Meaning

    English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Kingdon
    Chief
    Koenig
    Kings

    Sources (21)

    • Annie Cox in household of Calvin Cox, "United States Census, 1880"
    • Ann King, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
    • Annie Silcox in entry for Cera G. Herring, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"

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