When Sammie Brooks King was born on 20 June 1935, in Calvert City, Marshall, Kentucky, United States, his father, Elva "Elvie" Dewey King, was 36 and his mother, Ruby Estel Green, was 27. He lived in United States in 1949 and Livingston, Kentucky, United States in 1950. He died on 26 October 2018, in Calvert City, Marshall, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, 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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