Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Rose was born on 10 May 1848, in Rockland, Sullivan, New York, United States, her father, Elam Rose, was 34 and her mother, Nancy Jane Hood, was 30. She married Andrew Cushatt on 27 June 1867, in Jasper, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Carroll, Carroll, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Colorado, United States in 1910. She died on 9 August 1930, in Swink, Otero, Colorado, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Rocky Ford, Otero, Colorado, United States.
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- Mary J Rose in household of Elvin Rose, "United States Census, 1860"
- (1867) Mary Jane Rose, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Mary Rose, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Carroll, Iowa, United States
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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