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Rozelle <I>Applegate</I> Putnam

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Rozelle Applegate Putnam

Birth
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Death
7 May 1861 (aged 29)
Yoncalla, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
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Yoncalla, Douglas County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Rozelle Applegate was born March 30, 1832 in St. Louis, Missouri, the oldest daughter of Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker. After moving with her family to Polk County in the spring of 1844, she met Charles Putnam, a young printer from Lexington, Kentucky who had arrived with the emigration of 1847. They were married December 12, 1847. When the Applegate family moved to Douglas County, the Putnams went with them. They settled on a land claim and started a family that eventually reached eight in number: Charles (1848), Lucinda (1851), Horace (1852), Edward (1854), Gertrude (1856), twins Susan and Joseph (1858) and Ada (1860).

Rozelle Putnam was the first woman to set type in the Oregon territory. Charles printed a small paper called The Oregon American and Evangelical Unionist. Rozelle, like her sister Harriet, died of consumption. Her husband sent her to her parents' home so her mother could nurse her. She died at the age of twenty-nine. The motherless children were raised by their grandparents, Jesse and Cynthia Applegate, after their mother's death. Charles spent much of his time at the Applegate home thereafter. In 1862 he went to the Idaho gold fields with his Applegate brothers-in-law and cousins, also taking his eldest son, Charles Putnam Jr.

Biographical information supplied by: Jackie Wilson Goddard .
Rozelle Applegate was born March 30, 1832 in St. Louis, Missouri, the oldest daughter of Jesse Applegate and Cynthia Parker. After moving with her family to Polk County in the spring of 1844, she met Charles Putnam, a young printer from Lexington, Kentucky who had arrived with the emigration of 1847. They were married December 12, 1847. When the Applegate family moved to Douglas County, the Putnams went with them. They settled on a land claim and started a family that eventually reached eight in number: Charles (1848), Lucinda (1851), Horace (1852), Edward (1854), Gertrude (1856), twins Susan and Joseph (1858) and Ada (1860).

Rozelle Putnam was the first woman to set type in the Oregon territory. Charles printed a small paper called The Oregon American and Evangelical Unionist. Rozelle, like her sister Harriet, died of consumption. Her husband sent her to her parents' home so her mother could nurse her. She died at the age of twenty-nine. The motherless children were raised by their grandparents, Jesse and Cynthia Applegate, after their mother's death. Charles spent much of his time at the Applegate home thereafter. In 1862 he went to the Idaho gold fields with his Applegate brothers-in-law and cousins, also taking his eldest son, Charles Putnam Jr.

Biographical information supplied by: Jackie Wilson Goddard .

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  • Created by: Jan and Mike
  • Added: May 5, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69380482/rozelle-putnam: accessed ), memorial page for Rozelle Applegate Putnam (30 Mar 1832–7 May 1861), Find a Grave Memorial ID 69380482, citing Applegate Family Cemetery, Yoncalla, Douglas County, Oregon, USA; Maintained by Jan and Mike (contributor 46631155).