Brief Life History of Electa
When Electa King was born in 1793, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Enoch King, was 23 and her mother, Rhoda Phillips, was 22. She married Joel Burnell on 14 December 1809, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 1 October 1875, in Charlotte, Chautauqua, New York, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Sinclairville, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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- Eleota Burnell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Electa King, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Electa King Burnell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1808
Historical Boundaries 1808: Chautauqua, New York, United States
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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