When Augustus Magee Derosett was born on 12 October 1865, in Brooksville, Bracken, Kentucky, United States, his father, Atwell Derossett, was 31 and his mother, Priscilla Dudley Hunt, was 33. He married Lena Brewsaugh on 19 December 1894, in Harrison, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Poindexter, Harrison, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 5 Tricum, Harrison, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 23 April 1941, in Harrison, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Battle Grove Cemetery, Cynthiana, Harrison, Kentucky, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Historical Boundaries - 1876: Harrison, Kentucky, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Altered form, with fused preposition de ‘of’, of French Rosset: nickname for a red-haired man, from a diminutive of Old French ros ‘red’ (compare Rossel ). Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t.
History: The Derossett family descended from Armand-Jean (Armand John) de Rosset, a French Huguenot, who immigrated to North America in 1735 and settled in Wilmington, NC. He is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America, while in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors it is his father, Louis de Rosset, who is recognized as a Huguenot ancestor.
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