George Dilling Roe

Brief Life History of George Dilling

When George Dilling Roe was born on 12 April 1862, in Urbana, Champaign, Illinois, United States, his father, John Busey Roe, was 25 and his mother, Susannah Dilling, was 19. He married Mariah Forest Swain on 26 November 1885, in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Center Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 20 April 1889, in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Fredonia, Wilson, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Dilling Roe
1862–1889
Mariah Forest Swain
1860–1936
Marriage: 26 November 1885
Dora Eunice Roe
1887–1957

Sources (4)

  • George O Roe in household of John B Roe, "United States Census, 1880"
  • George D Roe, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
  • George Dilling Roe, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1868

Historical Boundaries: 1868: Wilson, Kansas, 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: nickname from Middle English ro(o) ‘roe deer’ (Old English ). This is the midland and southern form, also found in South Yorkshire and Lancashire. In much of northern England, however, remained unrounded and survives as Ray 3.

English: post-medieval variant of Wroe (see Wray ). Wroe may also have been used as a spelling of Roe .

English: post-medieval variant of Row (or vice versa); see Rowe .

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

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