Martha E King

Brief Life History of Martha E

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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Family Time Line

John W Baggett Jr
1866–1933
Martha E King
1865–1928
Marriage: 14 July 1889
Jennings Baggett
1890–
Sarah R Baggett
1890–1906
Edith Baggett
1894–1964
Samuel J Bagget
1897–
Anna Mickels
1911–

Sources (10)

  • Martha Baggett in household of John Baggett, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Martha E King, "Florida Marriages, 1830-1993"
  • Martha E. Baggett, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"

World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1878 · St. Mary's Episcopal Church is Built

The Episcopal Diocese of Florida organized a mission church in 1878 to provide a location that could serve seasonal guests. Visitors and residents from Green Cove Springs raised over $1000 to build the church. On March 10, 1879, the Church held its first service. This location is notable because it would eventually be added to U.S. National Register of Historic Places (February 17, 1978).

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United 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 (which means ‘king’ in Irish).

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

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