Adaline Ross

Brief Life History of Adaline

When Adaline Ross was born in 1848, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States, her father, Samuel Ross, was 43 and her mother, Nancy Moore, was 31. She married William H. McKinney on 8 February 1866, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Mount Hope, Lawrence, Alabama, United States in 1870. She died on 18 October 1886, in Belleville, Yell, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Yell, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Gilbert Lucas
1856–1899
Adaline Ross
1848–1886
Marriage: 10 July 1872
Reverend William Gilbert Lucas
1874–1947
Adaline Lealia Lucas
1875–1903
Margaret Lena Lucas
1875–1961
Henry Walter Lucas
1878–1954
James Ford Lucas
1881–1944
Robert Perce Lucas
1883–1911

Sources (4)

  • Adeline McKiney, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Adaline Ross, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
  • Ross in entry for James Ford Lucas, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

World Events (6)

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1862 · Battle of Pea Ridge

By the time the Battle of Pea Ridge happened the Union forces had pushed Confederates through Missouri and Arkansas. This battle was important in securing Missouri for the Union and opening Arkansas for the Union.

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

Scottish: habitational name from one or other of a number of Scottish and English places called Ross or Roos(e), especially Roose (Lancashire) and Roos (East Yorkshire). The placenames derive from a British ancestor of Welsh rhos ‘moor, heath, plain’, which is the sense of the cognate Gaelic word ros. The Scottish surname has at least three origins. First, the Anglo-Norman family from Roos (East Yorkshire) was introduced to Scotland when Robert of Roos, lord of Wark Castle (Northumberland), married Isabella, an illegitimate daughter of King William the Lion. Second, various families took the name from the province of Ross in northern Scotland and other places of that name. Third, there were Norman families in Scotland by the 13th century who probably derived their name from Rots in Normandy (see 2 below). The descendants of Godfrey de Ros, tenant of the de Morville lords of Cunninghame, were major landholders in Ayrshire, and almost certainly took their name from Rots. The Rose family of Kilravock (Nairnshire) may take their name from either of these three (see Rose ). The lairds of Balnagown adopted the surname Ross after the earldom of Ross (to which they considered themselves rightful heirs) had passed into other hands through the female line.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rots in Calvados (France), probably named with the ancient Germanic element rod ‘clearing’ (compare Rhodes ). This was the original home of a family de Ros, who were established in Kent in 1130 and had major estates in Kent until well into the 13th century.

English: habitational name from Wrose, in Shipley, near Bradford (Yorkshire), with re-spelling of Wr- as R- due to the loss of /w/ before /r/ in early modern English pronunciation. The spelling Wrose is no longer current. The placename derives from Old English wrāse ‘knot, something twisted’, referring to the steep-sided hill on which the settlement stands, with the sense ‘broken or twisting hill’.

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

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