When Michael King was born on 1 October 1850, in Clintonville, Coffee, Alabama, United States, his father, William Coplin King, was 27 and his mother, Roseda Sawyer, was 21. He married Elizabeth Anna Davidson in 1872, in Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 7 November 1912, in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Newell Cemetery, Covington, Alabama, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Coffee, Alabama, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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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