Brief Life History of Joel
When Joel King was born on 3 November 1785, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Samuel King, was 40 and his mother, Deborah Greene, was 41. He married Esther Matteson on 16 February 1808, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Pompey, Onondaga, New York, United States for about 5 years. He died on 12 December 1867, at the age of 82, and was buried in Berwin Cemetery, LaFayette, Onondaga, New York, United States.
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- Joel King in household of Homer J Butts, "United States Census, 1860"
- Joel King, "Rhode Island Town Marriages Index, 1639-1916"
- Joel King, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1789
Pompey was formed in January 1789.
1807
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list
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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