Rosine Breckle was born at Osweil near Stuttgart in Germany. Her death certificate stated her birthdate as April 30, 1846, which coincides with census records have stated she was born in April of 1846. She reported age 20 in the ship record of 1866 when she emigrated to the United States. However the birth record of a Rosina Maria Breckle was listed in the German birth and baptismal records of Osweil in Germany, on December 18, 1841, and baptized (looks like April or Aug) 10, 1842 and listed as Uneheliche (illegitimate) with parents Jacob Friedrich Breckle and Rosina Friederike, which brings question to the reported date of birth.

Her sister Caroline Christine (Breckle) Vetter's birth data was found through Ancestry.com, and confirmed through San Francisco funeral records which provided the date and location of Osweil, as well as the German family tables and birth registrar records of Osweil, Germany. Their parents were married April 30, 1843 per records from Osweil, however Caroline was born in 1838 and listed as illegitimate in the record with the use of the German word "Uneheliche". These records confirm the parentage as of Caroline and Rosine. Rosine's parents were Jacob Friedrich Leonhard Breckle, the son of Jakob Friedrich Brekle (Breckle), and Eva Christiana Muller; and Rosine's mother was Rosina Friederike Schweizer, the daughter of Heinrich Schweizer and Anna Maria Eckstein of Germany. The photographs attached to Rosine's memorial were of her parents. All of the photographs were of my great-aunt Bernice (Hoffman) Garden's collection. The photographs of Rosine's parents were taken in Stuttgart, Germany and were included in this collection of photographs.

Rosine was age 20 when she sailed from Germany to the United States, landing in New York on March 14, 1865 on the ship "Hansa". She stated she was born in Osweil as listed in the ship records. Osweil is located near Stuttgart in the Baden-Wurttemberg region of Germany. She then sailed around the Isthmus to California to join her sister Caroline and her husband Alfred Vetter in San Francisco. Her brother-in-law was an importer and business man owning several blocks in San Francisco, and it is believed that he introduced Rosine to Giuseppe Patroni (Joseph Patrone) from Italy who was a friend of his. Joseph was a farmer in Stanislaus county who trucked his produce to San Francisco. Rosine and Joseph were married in Stockton, California on October 17, 1865. She gave birth to a son, Frederick "Fritz" on April 9, 1866, and her son was raised by her sister Caroline and Alfred Vetter. Frederick was the son of Alfred Vetter and Rosine Breckle, and a witness for the Vetter estate case stated that Alfred Vetter told her Frederick was his son and wanted her to convince his wife Caroline to adopt him (Mrs. Becker was the witness). Frederick's half sibling Christine (Patrone) Updike also stated that Frederick was the son of Alfred Vetter and her mother Rosine (Breckle) Patrone-Grant. This went to the courts when Frederick Vetter, her biological son died in 1915, and it was determined by the Judge that Frederick was Rosine's natural born son. The case was in the court system in San Francisco for over ten years. Ultimately a settlement was reached and a portion of the estate was divided with the half siblings (children of Rosine Breckle and Joseph Patrone). "The Recorder" a newspaper in San Francisco, California reported on page 6 and 7 the Supreme Court Decision on the matter, dated Nov. 5, 1925.

Joseph and Rosine had several children together and owned a large ranch in the Stanislaus county. After Joseph's death in 1880, Rosine remarried to Allen Grant, a Scotsman who owned farmland a little outside of Modesto, Stanislaus Co., California. Their first born, a son named Allen Grant Jr. died soon after birth and it is believed he is buried on the property, as well as her husband Allen Grant, as the cemetery in Modesto listed that Allen Grant Sr. was buried 13 miles west of Modesto on his property. Rosine and Allen Grant had another son John "Jack" Grant, and daughters- Jeanette married name Crispin, and Alina married name Hoffman.