When Rhoda Jane Bullis was born on 17 March 1892, in Rock, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Rush H Bullis, was 28 and her mother, Bertha Mary Anna Bentz, was 22. She married Dr. Floyd Garrison Wolcott on 12 June 1912, in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Milton, Rock, Wisconsin, United States for about 5 years and Washington, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States in 1910. She died on 20 August 1985, in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States.
English (Cambridgeshire): probably a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in a cattle shed, or a topographic name for someone who lived by one, from a shortened form of Middle English bulehus ‘bull house’, from bule, bole ‘bull’ + h(o)us ‘house’.
Latvian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from bullis ‘bull’.
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