Brief Life History of Leslie Lynch
When Leslie Lynch King Sr was born on 25 July 1884, in Chadron, Dawes, Nebraska, United States, his father, Charles Henry King, was 31 and his mother, Martha Alicia Porter, was 28. He married Dorothy Ayer Gardner on 7 September 1912, in Harvard, McHenry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wyoming, United States in 1935 and Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 18 February 1941, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Leslie King, "United States Census, 1940"
- Leslie L King, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Leslie L. King, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
Spouse and Children
1884–1941 Male
1892–1985 Female
Children (4)
1919–1921 Female
1921–1993 Female
1923–1976 Male
1925–1980 Female
Parents and Siblings
1853–1930 Male
1855–1930 Female
Siblings (10)
1870– Male
1874–1961 Female
1876– Male
1881– Female
1881–1940 Male
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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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The King Family Leslie Lynch King, President Ford's father, was born on July 25, 1884 at Chadron, Nebraska. After his divorce from Dorothy Gardner, he married Margaret Atwood at Reno, Nevada in 1919. …
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