Anderson D Rooker

Brief Life History of Anderson D

When Anderson D Rooker was born in December 1860, in Overton, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Rooker, was 23 and his mother, Hannah Thatcher Eldridge, was 38. He married Buannavista Grissom on 30 December 1884, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bonham, Fannin, Texas, United States in 1900 and Stuart, Hughes, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died in 1928, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 68.

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Family Time Line

Anderson D Rooker
1860–1928
Buannavista Grissom
1867–1901
Marriage: 30 December 1884
Dora Bell Rooker
1885–1972
Margaret Laurania Rooker
1887–1977
James Wiley Rooker
1889–1964
Jesse Moses Rooker
1889–1965
Lorene Thatcher Rooker
1898–1968

Sources (8)

  • Anderson Rucker, "United States, Census, 1870"
  • A D Rooker, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
  • A D Rooker in entry for W E Grisso and Marguerete Rooker, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"

World Events (8)

1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States

On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs, from an agent derivative of Middle English rok(ke) ‘distaff’ (see Rock ).

English: from an agent derivative of Middle English rok(ke) ‘rock’. The surname may be topographic, signifying someone who lived beside a prominent rock or rocky outcrop, or habitational, denoting someone who lived at a place so named. See Rock .

Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who smokes fish or meat.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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