When Rosetta Kathryn Hey was born on 26 March 1859, in Clay, Missouri, United States, her father, Christian Gottlieb Hey, was 21 and her mother, Mary E Chandler, was 19. She married William Samuel Chandler on 7 July 1881, in Barton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Rosedale, Marion, Oregon, United States for about 10 years and Rosedale Election Precinct, Marion, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 24 May 1946, at the age of 87, and was buried in Belcrest Memorial Park, Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States.
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The Homestead Act of 1862 gave each citizen 160 acres of land. The qualified applicants were required to build a home and cultivate the land for five years.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): variant of Hay .
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized (or archaic) and Flemish, of Heij, a topographic name for someone who lived on a heath, Dutch hei, heide.
German: metonymic occupational name for a grower or mower of grass, from Middle High German höu ‘grass, hay’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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