Brief Life History of Rophena
When Rophena Weeks was born on 28 January 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, William Weeks Jr., was 33 and her mother, Caroline Matilda Allen, was 23. She married James Amos Grey on 30 December 1865, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1860 and Cucamonga, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1880. She died on 19 October 1923, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Rosina Wicks in household of William Wicks, "United States Census, 1850"
- Raphena Arborn, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Raphina Weeks, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Los Angeles, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wicks .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Vik .
History: This surname was brought to North America independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest on record is Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somerset, England, to Portsmouth, NH, some time before 1656. — William Weeks, recorded in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA, from 1653 onward, was probably a cousin or other relative of the John Wickes mentioned at Wickes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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