Rose Olive Gwinn

January 1870–26 November 1925 (Age 55)
Muncie, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States

The Life Summary of Rose Olive

When Rose Olive Gwinn was born in January 1870, in Muncie, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States, her father, Moses Minister Gwin, was 42 and her mother, Nancy Hendricks, was 42. She married William Frederick Wiggerly on 1 December 1887, in Randolph, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Morristown, Hanover Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Mount Pleasant, Perry Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States in 1910. She died on 26 November 1925, in Yorktown, Mount Pleasant Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Frederick Wiggerly
1853–1926
Rose Olive Gwinn
1870–1925
Marriage: 1 December 1887
Blanche Karolyn Wiggerly
1888–1977
Ward Silvious Wiggerly
1890–1969
Neva June Wiggerly
1892–1981
Forrest Raymond Wiggerly
1894–1974
Lula Marcella Wiggerly
1898–2008
Reba Roberta Wiggerly
1900–1986
William Farada Wiggerly
1906–1997

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1 December 1887Randolph, Indiana, United States
    • Children

    (7)

    +2 More Children

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (7)

    +2 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
    Age 0
    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.
    1870 · Giving all the right to vote
    Age 0
    The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
    1886
    Age 16
    Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

    Name Meaning

    Welsh: variant of Gwin .

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

    Possible Related Names

    Gwin

    Sources (20)

    • Rosa O Gwin in household of Moses M Gwin, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Rosa Gwinn in entry for Forrest Wiggerly and Victoria Phelps, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
    • Rosa O Gwin in household of Moses M Gwin, "United States Census, 1880"

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