When Loyd King Gibson was born on 5 August 1903, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, his father, Lucas Lively Gibson, was 41 and his mother, Permelia Jane Jaggers, was 37. He lived in Priceville, Hart, Kentucky, United States for about 30 years. He died on 18 April 1974, in Hardin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Wilkerson Temple Methodist Church Cemetery, Kessinger, Hart, Kentucky, United States.
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From 1904-1909, the Black Patch War took place. This was a war between about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. The war was mostly over the Dark Fired Tobacco that was produced in the area during this time.
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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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