Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Chauncey ROSA

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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Chauncey Rosa, father of Municipal Judge C. D. Rosa, and one of the oldest
settlers of the county, died at the home of his son, Elmer, in Evansville
Saturday morning, Jan. 19, 1907, aged 82 years, eight months and twelve
days.

The deceased's life was an eventful once, filled especially during his
early years, with interesting and exciting happenings. Mr. Rosa's ancestors
came to the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., in the sixteenth century with the
Roosevelt family. They moved later to Chenaugo county in the same state
where the deceased was born. 

At the age of sixteen years, Mr. Rosa left his birthplace and walked 150
miles to the home of an uncle in Ohio. He made the trip entirely on foot in
three days. After remaining with his uncle for a short time he came farther
west to rock County, where in 1841 he settled on a farm in the town of
Center where he lived for the next fifty-five years and where his children
were born.

When coming to this county Mr. Rosa passed through old Fort Dearborn, the
beginnings of modern Chicago. Here he saw men suffering with the ague in
the unhealthy swampy land. There were but five or six houses and the
traveler was offered a quarter section of land in what is now the heart of
the city for $6 per acres.

In 1896, Mr. and Mrs. Rosa left their farm and took up their residence in
Brooklyn, Wis. After living there for a few years, they, at the request of
their children, broke up their home and went to Evansville to live with a
son. Mrs. Rosa is now in Manchester, Iowa, with a daughter.

About a year ago, Mr. Rosa suffered a severe attack of la grippe from which
he never fully recovered, and this with his extreme age was the cause of
death.

He is survived by his wife and ten children, six sons and four daughters.
They are Zimri of Los Angeles, Cal.; George W., of Lincoln, Neb; Delbert of
Omaha; Judge Charles D., of Beloit; Claude E. of Center; Elmer of
Evansville; Mrs. Emma Manhardt of Milwaukee; Mrs. G. A. Ballard of
Manchester, Iowa; Mrs. William Apfel of Beloit; and Mrs. W. J. Whitmore of
Milwaukee. He also leaves thirty one grandchildren and twelve great
grandchildren. -- Beloit Daily News

The funeral services were held Monday afternoon, at the home, Rev. Rolvix
Harlan, officiating. The remains were laid at rest in the Center cemetery,
by the side of his first wife, who died Dec. 5, 1865. Undertaker Biglow had
charge of the funeral.

January 25, 1907, The Enterprise, p. 3, Col. 7, Evansville, Wisconsin