When Joseph Crayton King was born on 30 April 1884, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, his father, Thomas Marion King, was 30 and his mother, Alice Elizabeth Jolly, was 26. He had at least 3 sons and 6 daughters with Minnie Elizabeth Kowalski. He lived in Hopewell Township, Anderson, South Carolina, United States for about 20 years. He died on 31 December 1928, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery, Anderson, Anderson, South Carolina, 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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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