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Information for Rose Ann McDonald's family has been very limited. It is believed that Rose's father died when she was a child, and that her mother was struck by a run away team of horses pulling a milk wagon and killed when Rose was a teenager, possibly 12 to 16 years old. Rose had a brother, Edward, and a sister, Margaret (later Erman). It is thought that Rose was taken in by a woman who owned a boarding house, and that Edward and Margaret were sent to an orphanage. Some of this has been substantiated. See below. Burial information received from Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis raises the question whether Rose's maiden name was actually "McDonnell". The family plot was purchased in 1867 by Mary McDonnell for the burial of Patrick McDonnell. The St. Louis Death Register also lists Patrick's entry as McDonnell. Below are the names of individuals interred in the family plot at Calvary with age at death and date of burial:
Cora T. Keehne (misspelled "Keelne" in the burial index) is the infant granddaughter of Rose Ann and Jeremiah Delworth, daughter of Mary Rose Delworth and William H. Keehne. Lawrence Delworth is the son of Rose Ann and Jeremiah.
The mystery regarding McDonald versus McDonnell continues....The monument marking the family lot at Calvary Cemetery has, unfortunately, fallen face forward and so is unable to be read the front of the memorial. However, on the side is inscribed the name: McDONALD - a good indicator that the family thought that Rose's maiden name was McDonald. That spelling also appears on Jeremiah and Rose's 1882 marriage certificate. And yet, in the obituaries for Jeremiah Delworth, dated 1929, Rose's maiden name is spelled McDonnell. Since her parents died when the children were so young, it is possible that the spelling of the name was altered from McDonnell to McDonald. With a heavy Irish brogue it may have been difficult to distinguish one pronunciation from the other. |
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