Brief Life History of Rosa Ann
When Rosa Ann Long was born on 10 January 1851, in Franklin, Macon, North Carolina, United States, her father, Laban Lafayette Long Sr, was 40 and her mother, Caroline Carpenter, was 34. She married William Shannon Coile on 17 January 1877, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Macon, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and District 6, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 26 April 1921, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Lost Creek, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Rosa A Long in household of Saborn Long, "United States Census, 1860"
- Rose A. Long, "Tennessee, Marriages, 1796-1950"
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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