When Mae Mary King was born on 20 March 1912, in French Mills, Madison, Missouri, United States, her father, William Henry King, was 38 and her mother, Lilly Bell West, was 31. She married Raymond Edwin Pruett on 18 September 1933, in Iron, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Liberty Township, Iron, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. She died on 30 March 1987, in Camanche, Clinton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Clinton Lawn Cemetery, Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, United States.
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).
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