Brief Life History of Nancy
When Nancy King was born in 1833, in South Carolina, United States, her father, William George King, was 43 and her mother, Nancy Ann Cole, was 29. She married Aaron Hornsby in 1850, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Coffee, Alabama, United States in 1870 and Clintonville, Coffee, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died in 1888, at the age of 55.
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- Nancy Hornsby in household of Aaron Hornsby, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nancy King Hornsby in entry for Aaron Hornsby, "Florida Confederate Veterans and Widows Pension Applications, 1885-1955"
- Nancy Hornsby, "United States Census, 1880"
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1835 · Angry Mob Seizes U-S Mail
On August 31, 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina an angry mob takes control over the U-S mail and burns it in public.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
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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