When Abagail Morana King was born on 16 September 1849, in Council Point, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Eleazer King Jr., was 37 and her mother, Mary Caroline Fowler, was 30. She married Joseph Smith Stevens on 12 August 1865, in Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 24 July 1913, in Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ferron City Cemetery, Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
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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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