Brief Life History of Silas Brannon
When Silas Brannon King was born on 4 March 1906, in Westminster, Oconee, South Carolina, United States, his father, Silas Roderick King, was 28 and his mother, Corrie Harden, was 20. He married Mabel Mae Easton. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Oconee, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and Chesapeake, Virginia, United States in 1966. He died on 22 September 1966, in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.
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- Silas B King in household of Silas R King, "United States Census, 1910"
- Silas Brannon King, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Silas Brennon King, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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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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