Brief Life History of Emma Florence
When Emma Florence Rose was born on 7 January 1868, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States, her father, John Thomas Rose, was 28 and her mother, Rebecca Drake, was 26. She married William Henry Thomas on 19 February 1891, in Sullivan, Sullivan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Fairbanks Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Fairbanks, Fairbanks Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 7 February 1960, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Fairbanks, Fairbanks Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States.
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- Emma F Thomas in household of William H Thomas, "United States Census, 1920"
- Emma F Rose, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Emma Florence Rose Thomas, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, and German: from the name of the flower, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German rose (from Latin rosa), in various applications. In part, it is a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found, especially in Europe, as a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion (compare 4 below). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Rózsa (see Rozsa ), Slovak Róža and Czech Roza . Compare 6 below and French Larose 2.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Rohese, Roese, later Rose, Royse (ancient Germanic Hrodohaidis, Rothaid, composed of the elements hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + haid(is) ‘kind, sort’).
English and Scottish: variant of Ross .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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