When William Jasper Rose was born on 24 February 1844, in Pleasant View, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, his father, Ephraim Rose, was 44 and his mother, Hannah Lee, was 42. He married Anna Bryant on 21 January 1866, in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Jellico Creek, Whitley, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 4 February 1929, in Savoy, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Moses-Pleasant View Cemetery, Whitley, Kentucky, United States.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, and German: from the name of the flower, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German rose (from Latin rosa), in various applications. In part, it is a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found, especially in Europe, as a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion (compare 4 below). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Rózsa (see Rozsa ), Slovak Róža and Czech Roza . Compare 6 below and French Larose 2.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Rohese, Roese, later Rose, Royse (ancient Germanic Hrodohaidis, Rothaid, composed of the elements hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + haid(is) ‘kind, sort’).
English and Scottish: variant of Ross .
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