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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- 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"
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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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