Brief Life History of William Franklin
William Franklin King was born on 24 November 1833, in Tennessee, United States as the son of Edward King and Mary Ann Leach. He married Sarah Jane Bowman on 1 January 1857, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Civil District 1, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. He died on 21 June 1907, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Bowman Cemetery, Campbell, Tennessee, United States.
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- William T King, "United States Census, 1870"
- W F King, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William F. King, "Find A Grave Index"
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1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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