Rose May "Rosie" Lane

Brief Life History of Rose May "Rosie"

When Rose May "Rosie" Lane was born on 10 May 1881, in Winnemucca, Humboldt, Nevada, United States, her father, Frank Ash Lane, was 37 and her mother, Susan M Wood, was 29. She married Charles Augustus Alford in 1901, in United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Contra Costa, California, United States in 1930 and Judicial Township 1, Contra Costa, California, United States in 1940. She died on 10 March 1975, in Pleasanton, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Concord, Contra Costa, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Augustus Alford
1878–1940
Rose May "Rosie" Lane
1881–1975
Marriage: 1901
Teresa Virginia Alford
1902–1995
Charles Matthew Alford
1906–1979
Grace S Alford
1910–
Lewis Everet Alford
1912–1997
Frank Melvin Alford
1916–1975
Tiny Mae Alford
1919–1978
French Anderson Alford
1919–1975
Edward T Alford
1922–2010
Elizabeth "Betty" Louise Alford
1926–1998

Sources (22)

  • Rosi Alford in household of Charley Alford, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Rose Alford, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Rose May Alford, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

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.

1889

Earliest Known Burial: Eleanor May Thompson Howells BIRTH 1863 Alfred, York County, Maine, USA DEATH 2 Aug 1889 (aged 25–26) Crockett, Contra Costa County, California, USA BURIAL Memory Gardens Cemetery Concord, Contra Costa County, California, USA MEMORIAL ID 14092686

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .

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

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