Rosetta Katherine Homer

4 March 1857–11 July 1923 (Age 66)
North Pigeon Creek, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States

The Life Summary of Rosetta Katherine

When Rosetta Katherine Homer was born on 4 March 1857, in North Pigeon Creek, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Russel King Homer, was 41 and her mother, Eliza Williamson, was 40. She married George Dubois Lutz on 22 November 1874, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 11 July 1923, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Dubois Lutz
1853–1936
Rosetta Katherine Homer
1857–1923
Marriage: 22 November 1874
George Albert Lutz
1876–1971
Rosetta Katherine Lutz
1878–1946
Myrtle Lutz
1881–1958

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    22 November 1874Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (11)

    +6 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1863
    Age 6
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1863
    Age 6
    Historical Boundaries 1863: Idaho, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Boise, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Boise, Idaho Territory, United States 1863: Owyee, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Oneida, Idaho, Territory, United States 1875: Bear Lake, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bear Lake, Idaho, United States
    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
    Age 18
    In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

    Name Meaning

    English: topographic name for a dweller by a holly bush, from Middle English holm (Old English holen) + the agent suffix -er, a type of formation characteristic of Hampshire and Sussex. See Holm 2.English: habitational name from Holmer (Herefordshire), Holmer Green (Buckinghamshire), or Homer (Devon), or else from other unrecorded placenames formed with Middle English hol(g)h + mere ‘pool by or in the hollow’ (Old English holh + mere).English: perhaps an occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Old French heaumier, heumier (from ancient Germanic he(a)ume ‘helmet’), but it is uncertain that this name became hereditary. Compare Helm 3.

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

    Possible Related Names

    Holm
    Homar
    Holmer

    Sources (28)

    • Rosetta K Lutz in household of Geo D Lutz, "United States Census, 1910"
    • Rosetta K. Homer in entry for Rosetta Katherine Lutz Pope, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
    • Rosetta C Homer in household of Russel K Homer, "United States Census, 1860"

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