Baptismal record of Rose Roche
| Parents: Baptized: Education: Married: |
Robert James Roche Hedwig "Hattie" Frances Kampa By Rev. J. P. Alsendorf June 25, 1899 Godparents were Johannes Salzbrunn and Anna Meier College graduate [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] George Francis LaFond |
| Notes: | Rose was baptized by Rev. J. P. Alsendorf on June 25, 1899. Her godparents were Johannes Salzbrunn and |
| Anna Meier.
At the time of the June 9, 1900 U.S. federal census, her family told the census enumerator that Rose was 11 months old (it actually was her first birthday that very day). She was living with her parents and five older siblings ranging in age from 2 years to 10 years old in Buckman Township, Morrison, Minnesota. Her parents had been married 12 years. Her father was working as a farmer and her elder brother, Robert was working as an unpaid farm laborer. Her brother could read, write and speak English, and attended school for 6 months out of the year. All Rose's other siblings could not read or write, nor were they going to school yet. At the time of the June 14, 1905 Minnesota state census, Rose was 6 years old and living with her parents and siblings on R.F.D. 2 in Buckman, Morrison, Minnesota. Her father had been living in the same enumeration district for 25 years and her mother for 17 years. Her father was working as a farmer. At the time of the May 2, 1910 U.S. federal census, Rose was 10 years old (although the census enumerator was told that she was 11) and living with her parents and five siblings ranging in age from 11 to 19 years old in Buckman Township, Morrison, Minnesota. Her parents had been married 21 years, and her mother was the mother of six children, all of whom were still living. Both elder brother Robert and his father were working as farm laborers. Her father told the enumerator that he had emmigrated to the United States in 1867. At the time of the Apr. 10, 1930 U.S. federal census, Rose was single and 30 years old (but told the enumerator she was 27). She was living with her widowed mother Hattie and single sister Sophia (age 33 but listed in the census as being 30), on their own farm in Buckman Township, Morrision, Minnesota. The family owned a radio. All three were farmers in general farming, actively at work as of the last regular working day. At the time of the Apr. 5, 1940 U.S. census, Rose was 40 years old (although she told the census enumerator that she was 36) and living with her 31-year-old husband George LaFond (who she said was 39) and 13-year-old nephew, Edward Huppler, in a rented home at 235 Summit Ave. in St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota. They had been living in the same place as of Apr. 1, 1935, and Edward had been living in Watertown, South Dakota. Rose told the enumerator that she was a college graduate, her husband had completed his first year of high school, and nephew Edward had finished the 8th grade. Her husband George was working 42 hours a week, 52 weeks a year as a brewer in a brewery, making $1,872 in 1939 and did not have income from any other sources. In the 1944 St. Paul City Directory, George and Rose are listed as living at 235 Summit Avenue. George was working as a brewer. Another address they lived at in St. Paul was 2730 Hazelwood Street. George and Rose lived in St. Paul and she died there on Mar. 12, 1989 at the age of 89. Her husband followed her into death a year and a half later. Rose is buried in Block: 25 Lot: 182 Space: 1 of Union Cemetery in Maplewood, Ramsey, Minnesota; George is buried beside her in Space: 2. Mark Winzenburg reminesces on his Great Aunt Rose: "We still tell stories about Great Aunt Rose. She was married to George La Fond but they had no children. Like Florentine she doted on Anna's children. My uncle Ed lived with them while he attended Cretin High School in St. Paul, a military school at the time. Rosie was generous to a fault, very hard working. She died after washing the walls of her spotless house even though her doctors told her not to...." |
| Ancestry: | The Johann "Hans" Kempa Line |
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