Brief Life History of Luther Green
When Luther Green King was born on 10 March 1825, in Montgomery, Maryland, United States, his father, John Duckett King, was 46 and his mother, Jemima Miles, was 42. He married Tabitha Browning on 14 October 1843, in Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in District 2, Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1870 and District 12, Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1900. He died on 6 March 1909, in Clarksburg, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Damascus, Montgomery, Maryland, United States.
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- Luther G King, "United States Census, 1850"
- Luther Green King, "Find A Grave Index"
- Luther King in entry for Bennie E. Brierton and Edna Estella King, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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