Rosaline Grant

18 October 1853–28 June 1917 (Age 63)
Adair, Kentucky, United States

The Life 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 6 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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Family Time Line

Shelby Winston Alloway Strange
1842–1904
Rosaline Grant
1853–1917
Marriage: 27 March 1873
Mary Jane Strange
1875–1878
Ray E. Strang
1886–1955
Eliza Strange
1888–1961
Lula Strange
1891–1965
Shelby Winston Strange
1876–1893
Francis Victoria Strange
1877–1946
Finis Alloway Strange
1879–1949
Sallie K. Strange
1881–
Sally Strange
1881–1919
Eli Alloway Strange
1883–1956
Luther Willie Strange
1894–1992

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
27 March 1873
Adair, Hancock, Kentucky, United States
children

(11)

    Mary Jane Strange

    Female1875–1878Female

    Shelby Winston Strange

    Male1876–1893Male

    Francis Victoria Strange

    Female1877–1946Female

    Finis Alloway Strange

    Male1879–1949Male

    Sallie K. Strange

    Female1881–Female

+6 More Children

Parents and Siblings

    Eli Grant

    Male1813–1874Male

    Frances Cartwright

    Female1817–1897Female

siblings

(12)

    Mary Jane Grant

    Female1841–1917Female

    Joseph M. Grant

    Male1842–1874Male

    James M. Grant

    Male1843–Male

    Sallie M. Grant

    Female1846–1916Female

    Eliza Grant

    Female1847–Female

+7 More Children

World Events (8)

1858

Age 5

Early burial: George W Blair, 19 Apr 1858 37.0207730, -85.2638410
1863

Age 10

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 17

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

1 English and (especially) Scottish (of Norman origin), and French: 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.2 English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, probably a survival into Middle English of the Old English byname Granta ( see Grantham ).3 Probably a respelling of German Grandt or Grand .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Sources (3)

  • Rose L Strange, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Roseline Milton in household of Eli Grant, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Rosa Strange in household of S W Strange, "United States Census, 1880"

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