Brief Life History of Sarah
Sarah King was born on 22 October 1783, in Maryland, United States as the daughter of John King. She married John V Cunningham on 26 February 1803, in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 22 October 1865, in Paw Paw, Marion, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cunningham Cemetery, Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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- Sarah Cunningham in household of John Cunningham, '1850 United States Federal Census' on MyHeritage
- Sarah King, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Sarah Cunningham, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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