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Birth
1859 (Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana)
Death
1937 (Fayetteville, North Carolina)
Lived/Active
North Carolina/Connecticut / France
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Born of French descent in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, on September 21, 1859. His father and two older brothers were killed during the Civil War; his mother had also died, and the Union General W. T. Sherman destroyed the family plantation during the Mississippi campaign. Rosseau and his sister were rescued by a slave, and the two were raised by a family friend in Kentucky.
Rosseau was educated in a private school and taught to shoot and fish by his guardian. He began wor (showing 500 of 8570 characters). |
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