Rose was born Rose Gomes on September 3, 1903 in Martha's Vineyard in Oaks Bluff. Her parents were Charlie (Marcelino) Gomes and Anna Sylvia (Silva). Her parents were immigrants- her father from Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) and her mother from Faial, Azores. Rose, her mother, sisters, and brother-in-law worked picking cranberries from cranberry bogs which at the time was a seasonal job that many Portuguese immigrants took on. Rose's parents decided to change their last name from Gomes to Rogers while in the U.S. and they and their children, including Rose began to go by it. Rose married her husband Julio Ozario Ferreira very young on May 11, 1916. They went on to have many children and lived on Bay Road in Easton, Massachusetts. Rose and her husband decided to change their surname from Ferreira to Fratus and began to go by it along with their children. Rose passed away on April 20, 1960 and is buried with her husband Julio in Easton, MA. The couple's gravestone lists the Ferreira surname rather than Fratus.
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
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