Roxilina

In their [the Niagara County Woman’s Suffrage Association’s] regular meeting this afternoon a resolution was passed to petition our Governor to commute the hideous sentence of hanging to imprisonment for life in the case of Roxilina Druse, of Herkimer county, N. Y., who murdered her husband in self-defense while he was holding an axe over her, after brutally beating her for years.

1887 January 1, M. B. Cushman, quotee, edited by Clara Bewick Colby, The Woman’s Tribune, volume IV, number 3, Beatrice, Neb.: Clara Bewick Colby, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [3], column 6

Roxilina Milethaler, the little daughter of G. Milethaler, of Greenwood, who had been suffering with enlargement of the tonsils for some time, had them cut out last Saturday.

1891 May 1, “Expositions”, in Weekly Expositor, volume IX, number 51, Yale, Mich.: Ja[me]s A. Menzies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [8], column 3

Roxilina Holman in a neat speech presented Past President Cadwalade with a beautiful jewel on behalf of the circle.

1910 July 17, “[Secret Societies] P. H. C.”, in The Pittsburg Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., →OCLC, editorial section, page 1, column 2

Deceased is survived by his two daughters, Misses Anna and Roxilina[,] and one brother, Mr. John Sinclair.

1911 June 8, “The Late Duncan Sinclair. […]”, in Orangeville Banner, volume XVIII, number 49, Orangeville, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3

She was born in Hopkinson, R. I., May 25, 1860, the daughter of Benjamin F. and Roxilina Starr.

1916 January 26, “[Obituary.] Mrs. Annie Adams.”, in Norwich Bulletin, volume LVIII, number 22, Norwich, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3