Brief Life History of Julia Amanda
When Julia Amanda King was born on 29 August 1876, in Union, Arkansas, United States, her father, Hiram King, was 22 and her mother, Mary Jane Pagan, was 29. She married John Gideon Walton on 28 February 1894, in Union, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Harrison Township, Union, Arkansas, United States for about 60 years. She died on 1 October 1948, in Strong, Union, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Strong, Union, Arkansas, United States.
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- Julia Walton in household of John G Walton, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Julia King - Published information: birth-name: Julia King
- Julia King, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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