Brief Life History of Leo Vonley
When Leo Vonley King was born on 25 May 1935, in Taylor, Kentucky, United States, his father, Roscoe King, was 21 and his mother, Opal Lillian Shepherd, was 21. He died on 22 November 1935, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Knifley, Adair, Kentucky, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Leo Vonley King, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
- Vonley King, "Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999"
- Vonley King, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1914–1999 Male
1914–1998 Female
Siblings (4)
1934–2009 Male
1935–1935 Male
1938–2017 Male
1949–1949 Female
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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