Brief Life History of Roxanne Agnes
When Roxanne Agnes Merseal was born in May 1894, in Missouri, United States, her father, Charles Edward Merseal Sr., was 42 and her mother, Mary Turney, was 35. She married Cecil Clair Robertson SR on 22 December 1918, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years. She died in April 1978, in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States.
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- Roxy Merseal in household of Chas E Merseal, "United States Census, 1910"
- Roxanne Agnes Merseal Robertson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Roxanna Merseal Robertson in entry for Cecil C Robertson, Jr, "Iowa, Armed Forces Grave Registrations, ca. 1835-1998"
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World Events (8)
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.
1913 · The Completion of the Keokuk Dam
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
From Latin Roxana, Greek Roxanē, recorded as the name of the wife of Alexander the Great. She was the daughter of Oxyartes the Bactrian, and her name is presumably of Persian origin; it is said to mean ‘dawn’. In English literature it is the name of the heroine of a novel by Defoe ( 1724 ), a beautiful adventuress who, deserted by her husband, enjoys a glittering career as a courtesan but eventually dies in a state of penitence, having been thrown into prison for debt. In modern use, the variant forms are more frequent.
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