Brief Life History of Philip Woodson
When Philip Woodson King Sr was born on 14 September 1879, in Morrison, Warren, Tennessee, United States, his father, Drew Woodson King, was 40 and his mother, Tennessee Polk Bonner, was 34. He married Susie St John on 3 June 1903, in Warren, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in District 10, Effingham, Georgia, United States in 1930 and Civil District 10, Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 10 June 1965, in McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Morrison Cemetery, Morrison, Warren, Tennessee, United States.
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- Phillip W King, "United States 1950 Census"
- P.w. King, "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950"
- Phillip Woodson King, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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.
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