Rosa Lee Randolph

Brief Life History of Rosa Lee

When Rosa Lee Randolph was born on 14 March 1917, in Tennessee, United States, her father, John Wesley Randolph, was 25 and her mother, Ora Belle Grider, was 24. She married Olen Clay Randolph. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950 and Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States for about 17 years. She died on 6 July 2007, in Putnam, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in West Cemetery, Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Olen Clay Randolph
1915–1987
Rosa Lee Randolph
1917–2007
Marriage:
Marquita May Randolph
1935–
Gail Randolph
Lecia Randolph
Juanita Faye Randolph
1939–
Aileen Rose Randolph
1941–
Dale Lynn Randolph
1950–2002

Sources (18)

  • Rosalie Randolph, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Rosa Lee Randolph, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Rosa Lea Randolph Randolph, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

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.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English and German: from Randolf, an ancient Germanic personal name composed of the elements rand ‘rim (of a shield), shield’ + wolf ‘wolf’. This was introduced into England by the Normans in Old French forms of two different ancient Germanic personal names which became confused with each other: Randulf (from rand ‘(shield-)edge’ + wulf ‘wolf’) and Rannulf (from hraf(a)n ‘raven’ + wulf ‘wolf’).

History: An American family bearing this surname are descended from William Randolph (c. 1651–1711), a planter and merchant, a member of a family that originally came from Sussex, England. William Randolph emigrated from Warwickshire to VA c. 1673. He was a forebear of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee. Randolph had seven sons, each of whom inherited an estate, the name of which was sometimes added to their own, such as Sir John Randolph of Tazewell. His great-grandsons included Edmund Randolph (1753–1813), first attorney general of the US and one of the framers of the US Constitution, and the diplomat and statesman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833), who served as US minister to Russia.

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

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