Last Updated: December 6, 2012
(1836 – 1879) The grandmother of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Rosanna Cox Fitzgerald was born in Co Cavan, Ireland.
Rosanna Cox was born in County Cavan, Ireland to Philip and Mary Cox. After emigrating to the Unied States, she married Thomas Fitzgerald onNovember 15 1857, in Boston, Massachusetts.
She gave birth to 12 children in her short lifespan, nine of whom lived to adulthood.
She died suddenly at the age of 43 in Boston on March 12, 1879, when she heard a rumor that her entire family had been killed in a train wreck on the way to their Sunday School picnic.
The rumor, of course, was false.
