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Rosetta Blake, the wife of Sterling4, was a skillful seamstress and also played
piano. In their rural home in Earle, Arkansas, Rosetta maintain
the family household. Rosetta was the proud mother of 11 boys and finally, one girl.
In 1954, Rosetta and Sterling became the legal guardians of a grandaughter,
Leyfane. Very soon after, Rosetta was diagnosed with carcinoma of the left breast. Rosetta made her
heavely transistion a very short time after the diagnosis, on October 1, 1956. She was 54 years old. Rosetta is buried in a
family plot, at Russell's Cemetery, Earle, AR, in Crittenden
County, next to McArthur, her last newborn son, who died at birth..
Rosetta's parents were Tom (Thomas)
Blake b. Jan 15, 1893, Collier, TN. and Harriet Bonner Blake. Tom
married Harriet Bonner on 14 February, 1889, Lincoln,
Tennessee, Batch M519464 WWI census records indicate that Tom Blake was included in the
draft registration of 1917-1918, discharged in 1924.
Rosetta is fondly missed , yet her
presence is with us always.
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