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Roseanna contracted measles during her pregnancy. Roseanna McCoy named her daughter Sarah Elizabeth, and Sarah passed away from contracting the measles.
The exact cause of Roseanna's death in 1889 is unknown. It is rumored that she died of a broken heart, but there is no concrete evidence to support this.
A Hatfield descendent posted on the History Channel website that family lore had Roseanna die of a broken heart which may have meant suicide. A better sounding answer in in Matawan, Virginia websites that say she died in the great blizzard in 1888 along the Eastern seaboard Mar 11-14 of that year when 400 people died. She is buried in Pikeville, Kentucky where they say she died in the blizzard. However, her grave marker says died 1889.
Ivan Born was born in 1778.
Gary Born was born in 1955.