Brief Life History of Rosaline
When Rosaline Grant was born on 18 October 1853, in Adair, Kentucky, United States, her father, Eli Grant, was 40 and her mother, Frances Cartwright, was 36. She married Shelby Winston Alloway Strange on 27 March 1873, in Adair, Hancock, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 3 Glenville, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 28 June 1917, in Glens Fork, Adair, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Helm Cemetery, Cundiff, Adair, Kentucky, United States.
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- Rose L Strange, "United States Census, 1910"
- Roseline Grant, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
- Roseline Grant, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1858
Early burial: George W Blair, 19 Apr 1858 37.0207730, -85.2638410
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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
Irish, English, and especially Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall, large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English: from the rare Middle English (and Old English) personal name Grante or Grente.
Irish: in Ireland this is usually the Norman Scottish name (see 1 above), but it was also adopted for Irish Mag Raighne, see Graney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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