Brief Life History of Nancy Jane
When Nancy Jane King was born on 29 January 1856, in Coffee, Alabama, United States, her father, William Coplin King, was 33 and her mother, Roseda Sawyer, was 26. She married James G. Davidson in 1872, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 6 Stella, Walton, Florida, United States in 1880 and Blackman, Santa Rosa, Florida, United States in 1900. She died on 22 May 1918, at the age of 62, and was buried in Newell Cemetery, Covington, Alabama, United States.
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- Nancy King in household of William C King, "United States Census, 1860"
- Nancy Davidson, "Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939"
- Nancy King in entry for Lela Nancy White, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1861
Florida has had 6 Constitutions since it became a state. The first Constitution was drafted in Saint Joseph, now known as Port St. Joe. Presently Florida is governed by the Constitution of 1968.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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