Brief Life History of Rosetta
When Rosetta Black was born on 17 March 1917, in Alabama, United States, her father, James Cicero Black, was 36 and her mother, Lucy Payne Johnson, was 36. She married Robert Reverly Moorman in 1931, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Saint Elmo, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and District 974, Dade, Georgia, United States in 1940. She died on 31 July 1961, in Dade, Georgia, United States, at the age of 44.
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- Rosetta Black in household of Ciara Black, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Rosetta Black - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Rosetta Black
- Rosetta Black in entry for J D Moorman, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1922 · Women Granted the Right to Vote
The 19th Amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed and became federal law on August 26, 1920. Georgia law prevented women from voting until 1922. The amendment wasn’t officially ratified until 1970.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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