When Rosetta May Stout was born on 24 November 1862, in Harrison, Clay, West Virginia, United States, her father, William G Stout, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Eib, was 30. She married Anderson Marion Westfall on 30 December 1888, in West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Union District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 12 September 1909, at the age of 46, and was buried in Goodhope, Harrison, West Virginia, United States.
English:
nickname from Middle English stout ‘bold, daring, brave’ (Old French estolt, estout, Anglo-Norman French estut, estot, estout ‘bold, fierce, randy, stubborn’).
perhaps occasionally a nickname from Middle English st(o)ut ‘gnat, horse-fly’ (Old English stūt, Old Norse stútr ‘gnat’), possibly used for someone with a biting tongue or for a small, quick-moving person.
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