Brief Life History of Lucretia
When Lucretia King was born on 26 December 1858, in Ursina, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Alfred Pringey King, was 30 and her mother, Catharine Nicola, was 29. She married William Jackson Donaldson Shaw on 6 March 1882. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Grant District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States in 1940 and Dellslow, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States for about 1 years. She died on 17 October 1954, in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 95.
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- Lucretia Shaw, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lucretia Shaw, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
- Unknown in entry for Edward H Shaw, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863
"West Virginia was given statehood status with the ""agreement"" the citizens would phase out slavery. On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Statehood Bill for West Virginia. West Virginia was proclaimed a state on April 20, 1863, with the bill becoming effective 60 days later, June 20, 1863. When West Virginia first entered statehood in 1863, there were only 46 counties. That same year, four other counties voted themselves into West Virginia. Today, there are 55 counties in the Mountain State. The oldest county in the state is Hamsphire County formed in 1754 as part of Virginia. The youngest county is Mingo formed in 1895. The smallest county is Hancock located in the northern panhandle of the state with Randolph being the largest. When the Legislature convened for its first session, there were only 47 members of the House of Delegates and 18 members of the State Senate. Through the years, the number has increased to 100 members of the House of Delegates and 34 members of the State Senate."
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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