Roscoe
Preston
Anthony
Born in Kennetcook, East Hants, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ancestors 
Brother of
Matilda Anthony [half], Bertha Anthony [half], Ruby Douglas Anthony [half], Rachel Anthony [half], Creighton B. Anthony [half], Arthur Munroe Anthony [half], Louise Blanche (Anthony) McPherson, Talmadge McGregor Anthony, Tennyson Russell Anthony, Minnie Dunn (Anthony) Forbes, Marsden Goodwin Anthony, Harris Blanchard Anthony, Elsie Rebecca (Anthony) Aiken and Estelle Marion (Anthony) Messenger
Husband of
Anna May (Bent) Skaling
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 61
in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Jul 2018
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Biography
Roscoe was born in 1912. He was the son of James Anthony and Phoebe Dunn. He passed away in 1974.
Roscoe Preston Anthony, 61, 2578 Elm Street, Halifax, died Tuesday.
Born in Kennetcook, Hants County, he was a son of the late James and Phoebe (Dunn) Anthony. He was an employee of the Canadian Postal Service for 30 years and served with the Canadian Postal Corps in the Second World War. At the time of his death, he was employed by Maritime Life Assurance Company.
Besides his wife, the former Anna Bent, he is survived by three sisters, Elsie (Mrs. W. E. Aitken), Truro; Louise (Mrs. Gordon MacPherson), Saskatoon, Sask.; Estelle (Mrs. J. B. Messenger), Moncton, N. B.; three brothers, Marsden, Kennetcook; Harris, Manchester, Conn. He was predeceased by a sister and a brother.
The body is at Halifax Funeral Home. Funeral service will be held in Church of the Nazarene, Henry Street, Dartmouth, Friday at 2 p.m., Rev. Anthony Sampson officiating. Burial will be in the Kennetcook United Church cemetery.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Roscoe by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Roscoe:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Roscoe by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Roscoe:
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~1.17%
Bill Harrison
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A561116 [compare], Ancestry member misterbill_1
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T415433 [compare], FTDNA kit #N56000
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~0.78%
j Evans :
Living DNA, GEDmatch BV8329780 [compare]
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