Brief Life History of Verna B
When Verna B King was born on 18 August 1885, in Wheeler, Wheeler Township, Gratiot, Michigan, United States, her father, Frederick N King, was 26 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” White, was 26. She married Arthur James Sessions Sr on 11 February 1910, in Lansing, New Hope, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Woodbury Township, Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 30 October 1984, in Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in Summit Cemetery, Williamstown Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States.
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- Verna Sessions in household of Arthur Sessions, "United States Census, 1910"
- Vernie King, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Veina King, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1886
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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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