Virginia Rose Best

Female18 January 1904–29 January 2000

Brief Life History of Virginia Rose

When Virginia Rose Best was born on 18 January 1904, in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States, her father, Harry Cassie Best, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Anne Rippey, was 24. She married Ansel Easton Adams on 2 January 1928, in Yosemite Village, Mariposa, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in El Portal, Mariposa, California, United States in 1940 and Yosemite Village, Mariposa, California, United States in 1950. She died on 29 January 2000, in Monterey, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 96.

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Family Time Line

Ansel Easton Adams
1902–1984
Virginia Rose Best
1904–2000
Marriage: 2 January 1928
Anne Adams
1935–2021

Sources (28)

  • Virginia Adams, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Virginia Best, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Virginia Rose Best Adams, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    2 January 1928Yosemite Village, Mariposa, California, United States
  • Children (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1906 · Saving Food Labels

    Age 2

    The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

    1907

    Age 3

    Oklahoma is the 46th state.

    1929

    Age 25

    13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

    Name Meaning

    English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.

    English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.

    English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.

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

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