Walter Nowlin Rose

Brief Life History of Walter Nowlin

When Walter Nowlin Rose was born on 16 October 1876, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, his father, Charles Green Rose, was 35 and his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Nowlin, was 24. He married Minnie Lucinda Lau on 6 January 1904, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hansen, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1910 and United States in 1949. He died on 24 October 1951, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter Nowlin Rose
1876–1951
Minnie Lucinda Lau
1877–1967
Marriage: 6 January 1904
Margaret Lau Rose
1904–1985
Doris Stock Rose
Fredric D Rose
1906–1981
Virginia May Rose
1908–1958
Charles Walter Rose
1911–1951
Robert Ivan Rose
1913–2008
Doris Lucile Rose
1916–2022

Sources (49)

  • Walter N Rose, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Walter N Rose, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Walter Nowlin Rose, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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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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