Edna Rose Gaulin

Brief Life History of Edna Rose

When Edna Rose Gaulin was born on 17 July 1914, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Edward Richard Gaulin, was 28 and her mother, Agnes Julia Migan, was 28. She married Harold Jack Ruttan on 24 November 1934, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Detroit Ward 19, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Detroit Ward 17, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 10 June 1972, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harold Jack Ruttan
1911–1996
Edna Rose Gaulin
1914–1972
Marriage: 24 November 1934
Richard John Ruttan
1935–1939
Ann Elizabeth Ruttan
1936–2008
John Edward Ruttan
1940–1958

Sources (9)

  • Edna Ruttan, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Edna R Ruttan, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Edna R Ernst, "Michigan Death Index, 1971-1996"

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1920 · The Detroit Wall

The Detroit Wall is a half mile long wall that was constructed to serve as a wall of racial separation as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners in northwest Detroit. Today the wall is mostly gone with only a small portion of it located at a local park.

1930 · The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel

The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is a highway tunnel that connects Detroit to Windsor and is the second busiest crossing between Canada and the United States, after the Ambassador Bridge. Motorcycles are prohibited from using the tunnel.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Pierre, Rodolphe, Adelard, Alcide, Aldege, Andre, Camille, Emile, Francois, Jean Pierre, Lucien, Rosaire.

French: probably from a shortening of the personal name Gaudelin of ancient Germanic origin (from the personal name Waldelin, from Waldo, from the element wald ‘power, authority’). Compare Golen .

History: The (majority of the) American bearers of the surname Gaulin are descendants of François Gaulin from Saint-Martin-du-Vieux-Bellême in Orne, France, who married Marie Rocheron in Quebec City, QC, in 1657. His descendants also bear an altered form of the surname, Golen.

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

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