When William Mullins "Billy" King was born on 22 May 1839, in Newbern, Pulaski, Virginia, United States, his father, Joseph Johnson King, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Mullin, was 29. He married Eva Clarissa Shufflebarger on 9 February 1864, in Pulaski, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Western District, Scott, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Newbern District, Pulaski, Virginia, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 14 September 1915, in Dublin, Pulaski, Virginia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Thornsprings Methodist Church Cemetery, Pulaski, Pulaski, Virginia, United States.
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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).
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