Brief Life History of Rosa Lee
When Rosa Lee Dawson was born on 1 March 1877, in West Virginia, United States, her father, George Turner Dawson, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Margaret Smith, was 37. She married John William Starcher on 21 October 1900, in Calhoun, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Green Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States in 1930. She died on 30 September 1964, in West Virginia, United States, at the age of 87.
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- Rosie Starcher in household of John Starcher, "United States Census, 1930"
- Rosa L Dawson, "West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932"
- Rosa Dawson in entry for Virgil Starcher and Wilma Luellen, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic meaning ‘son of Dawe’, from the Middle English personal name Daw(e) (see Daw 1 and 2), which is sometimes a pet form of David (see 2 below) but more generally of Rauf or Raw (i.e. Ralph ), of which Daw(e) is a rhyming form. Alternatively, the patronymic could mean ‘son of Daud(e)’, another Middle English pet form of Ralph evidently used interchangeably with Dawe. Dawson is one of the most numerous patronymics.
Scottish: patronymic, ‘son of Dawe’. In Scotland Dawe is a diminutive of David (compare 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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