Queenie Margurete Root

Brief Life History of Queenie Margurete

When Queenie Margurete Root was born on 16 October 1877, in Gordon Township, Todd, Minnesota, United States, her father, Edward Weeks Root, was 30 and her mother, Rosanna Marguerite Averill, was 29. She had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Lowzell William Sprague. She died on 1 April 1942, in Todd, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Osakis, Douglas, Minnesota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Lowzell William Sprague
1872–1941
Queenie Margurete Root
1877–1942
Elroyd Root Sprague
1900–1969
Edna Rosanna Sprague
1903–1985
Floy Marguerite Sprague
1907–1996
Ruth Maxine Sprague
1909–1996

Sources (16)

  • Corinna Root in household of Edward W Root, "Minnesota State Census, 1885"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Queenie Margurete Root - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Queenie Margurete Root
  • Queenie Margurete Sprague, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota

After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.

English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .

English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.

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

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