Brief Life History of Lois
Lois Root was born in 1883, in Michigan, United States as the daughter of Mary Barrett. She died on 4 November 1895, in Rome Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 12, and was buried in North Dover Cemetery, Clayton, Dover Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Lois Root, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
- Lois E Root, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
World Events (3)
1886
Age 3
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
Age 3
1887 · The Bagley Memorial Fountain
Age 4
Name Meaning
English: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.
English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .
English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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