Kingsville, Maryland
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N 39° 26.996 W 076° 25.052
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Kingsville takes its name from Abraham King (1760–1836), who died there on December 15, 1836 at the age of 76. St. John’s Episcopal Church in Kingsville was founded in 1692 and they are a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
Waymark Code: WM195RJ
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 12/02/2023
Views: 12
The building in the background is St. John's Episcopal Church historic church building consecrated in 1817.
The Place:
(From Wikipedia) Kingsville is a semi-rural, unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a close-knit and rustic community bounded by the Little Gunpowder Falls river (to the northeast) and the Big Gunpowder Falls river (to the southwest) which join to form the Gunpowder River. The population of Kingsville was 4,318 at the 2010 census.
Kingsville takes its name from Abraham King (1760–1836), who died there on December 15 at the age of 76. King, a native of Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, acquired some 290 acres (1.2 km2) of land from Thomas Kell (a county judge) in and about the site of Kingsville from parts of the original grants of Leaf's Chance, William the Conqueror, Selby's Hope, John's Delight and Onion's Prospect Hill, according to a deed executed May 13, 1816. King lived in the old Hugh Deane-John Paul mansion (later known as the Kingsville Inn and presently as the Lassahn Funeral home on Belair Road) with his wife Elizabeth Taylor.
The Person:
When Abraham King was born in 1759, in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, George King, was 29 and his mother, Catharine Brenneman, was 26. He married Elizabeth Taylor about 1789, in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years and Charlestown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1840. He died on 15 December 1836, in Kingsville, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Friends Cemetery, Fallston, Harford, Maryland, United States.
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