Brief Life History of Michael
When Michael King was born on 31 March 1827, in Sumter, South Carolina, United States, his father, William George King, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Ann Cole, was 22. He married Milbra Cutts on 27 December 1849, in Clintonville, Coffee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 30 August 1902, in Walton, Florida, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in De Funiak Springs, Walton, Florida, United States.
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- Michael King, "United States Census, 1880"
- Michael King, "Find A Grave Index"
- Michael King in entry for Daniel H. King, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"
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1829 · Fort Sumter Constructed
In 1829 Fort Sumter is constructed in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is most known for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. It is barely ready when the American Civil War starts.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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