When Amzi Perry King was born on 8 October 1849, in Mantua, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, John Russell King, was 38 and his mother, Hannah Amelia Montgomery, was 36. He married Grace Mary Lake on 4 October 1879, in Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Ohio, United States in 1924. In 1924, his occupation is listed as farmer in Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio, United States. He died on 7 August 1924, in Trumbull, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in East Mecca Cemetery, West Mecca, Trumbull, Ohio, 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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