Brief Life History of Theresa Catherine
When Theresa Catherine King was born on 1 October 1863, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, George King, was 40 and her mother, Mary Peery, was 37. She married George Erastus Rhudy on 5 June 1887, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Christiansburg, Montgomery, Virginia, United States in 1950. She died on 12 February 1958, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Sunset Cemetery, Christiansburg, Montgomery, Virginia, United States.
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- Catherine K Rhudy, "United States 1950 Census"
- Catherine T King, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Kate E. King, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1879
Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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