When Martha E King was born on 1 January 1865, her father, William Coplin King, was 42 and her mother, Roseda Sawyer, was 35. She married John W Baggett Jr on 14 July 1889, in Santa Rosa, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Blackman, Santa Rosa, Florida, United States in 1900. She died on 4 November 1928, in Blackman, Okaloosa, Florida, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Cotton Cemetery, Good Hope, Okaloosa, Florida, United States.
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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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