When Mary Elizabeth King was born on 20 February 1849, in Marshfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, her father, John King, was 31 and her mother, Highly Rose Day, was 25. She married Charles Elisha Hollis on 10 March 1882, in United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Niangua, Webster, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Jackson Township, Webster, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 13 June 1928, at the age of 79, and was buried in Marshfield, Greene, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1830: Wayne, Missouri, United States 1831: Non county area, Missouri, United States 1833: Greene, Missouri, United States 1855: Webster, Missouri, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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