Phyllis Jean Rose

Female31 January 1952–18 March 1998

Brief Life History of Phyllis Jean

When Phyllis Jean Rose was born on 31 January 1952, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, her father, Orville Rose, was 24 and her mother, Elsie Katherine Hurt, was 17. She died on 18 March 1998, in Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Red Lick Cemetery, Berea, Madison, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Orville Rose
1927–1977
Elsie Katherine Hurt
1934–2016
Phyllis Jean Rose
1952–1998

Sources (9)

  • Phyllis Jean Rose, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Phyllis Jean Rose, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Phyllis J Rose in entry for Coburn Ray Holbrook, "Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999"

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World Events (8)

1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins

Age 3

The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

1955 · To War in Vietnam

Age 3

The Vietnam War was another civil war brought about from the Cold War. It was fought between the North Vietnamese, who were supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies, and the South Vietnamese, who were supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war caused two more civil wars in Laos and Cambodia and resulted in all three countries becoming communist states.

1965 · The Voting Rights Act

Age 13

The Voting Rights Act prohibits racial discrimination in voting. The Act secured the right to vote for minorities in the South. It also prohibits local governments from making any voting law that results in discrimination against any kind of minorities.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, and German: from the name of the flower, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German rose (from Latin rosa), in various applications. In part, it is a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found, especially in Europe, as a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion (compare 4 below). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Rózsa (see Rozsa ), Slovak Róža and Czech Roza . Compare 6 below and French Larose 2.

English: from the Middle English female personal name Rohese, Roese, later Rose, Royse (ancient Germanic Hrodohaidis, Rothaid, composed of the elements hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + haid(is) ‘kind, sort’).

English and Scottish: variant of Ross .

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

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