Brief Life History of Susan Jane
When Susan Jane Lake was born on 4 December 1839, in Licking, Ohio, United States, her father, Redmond Lake Jr., was 25 and her mother, Martha W Hightower, was 20. She married Charles Elswick Rose on 26 December 1854, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Union Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Guyandotte, Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 25 May 1921, in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United States.
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- Susan J Rose in household of Charles E Rose, "United States Census, 1880"
- Susan J. Lake, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Susan Jane Rose, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
On June 20, 1863, Cabell County, Virginia, was one of the 50 counties separated from Virginia at the height of the American Civil War to form the State of West Virginia
Name Meaning
English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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