When Robert Rose was born in 1806, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, his father, Reuben Rose, was 27 and his mother, Martha Patricia Mason, was 25. He married Mahala Guinn Stark in 1828, in Robertson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Robertson, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died on 18 December 1860, in Pike, Missouri, United States, at the age of 54.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries 1819: Pike County was created from St. Charles County.
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
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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