Farmer.
Born at Wolford, Ontario on 26 December 1853, son of John Rose and Harriett Coolidge, he quit school with the equivalent of a third-class teacher’s certificate. He worked on the family farm until April 1879 when he came to Manitoba with his brother, Henry Rose, and took up a homestead in Township 14, Range 17. On 20 March 1883, he married Martha Barclay Acheson (?-1885) at Fairmount and they had a son, Stuart M. Rose (1885-?). He was a member of the Royal Templars and the Methodist church. He served on the council for the Rural Municipality of Ivanhoe and served eighteen years as municipal constable. He died in 1934 and was buried in the Minnedosa Cemetery.
Marriage registration [Francis Rose, Martha Barclay Acheson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 June 2023
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