Rosetta Louella Bowell

Brief Life History of Rosetta Louella

When Rosetta Louella Bowell was born on 12 March 1864, in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States, her father, Antipas Jackson Bowell, was 35 and her mother, Susan M. Oglesbee, was 31. She married Edward Everett Groce on 2 June 1889, in Douglas, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Wills Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Greeley Township, Saline, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 15 January 1930, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Everett Groce
1856–1929
Rosetta Louella Bowell
1864–1930
Marriage: 2 June 1889
Raymond E. Groce
1890–
George Gilbert Groce
1891–1977
Susan Margaret Groce
1905–1983

Sources (22)

  • Rosetta Powell in household of A J Powell, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Lou Bowell, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
  • Louella Groce, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"

World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1877 · Nicodemus is Founded

The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Bouelles in Seine-Maritime, France, so named with Old Norman French boelle ‘enclosure, dwelling’.

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

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