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One of the many stones at the Ardclach Church is that of Alexander Rose, born 1799, and died in, I believe, 1845 or 1846.  He was my great-great-grandfather. Alexander married Sophia Kennedy.  One of their sons, David, who was born circa 1843, emigrated to the US in 1883 with David's wife and children, one of whom, Alexander, was my grandfather.  It was my grandfather Alexander who prepared the family tree photographed in the RootsChat. We have the original of the family tree.  I last visited Ardclach in 2007 (before that, 2004) and found the stone to be in fairly good, but decaying, condition, with not all words apparent. David and his family went to Minnesota in the 1880's, where they settled and remained for the rest of their lives.  My grandfather Alexander was an architect.  He moved to Miami and then to New York, where he lived in Stewart Manor on Long Island.  My father, William Allen Rose, was born 1907 in Minneapolis, attended West High School, moved with his family to Miami and then to New York in the 1920's.  More to come in a later chat.