Brief Life History of Joicy
When Joicy Rose was born on 28 December 1829, in Pleasant View, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, her father, Ephraim Rose, was 30 and her mother, Hannah Lee, was 27. She married Ransom Stanaford on 25 April 1846, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 5 April 1886, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Briar Creek Cemetery, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States.
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- G O Stanford in household of Rant Stanford, "United States Census, 1870"
- Josiey Rose, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Jicey Rose in entry for George Staniford and Ella Parks, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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