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Hi Joyce - Viroqua was also my grandmother's name only spelled Veroqua

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Family history dictates that it is a Native American name meaning little flower although I have not been able to verify this as true or attribute it to a specific tribe.

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That said, there is a town in Wisconsin of the same name and my grandmother's father descends from Madison, Wisconsin so it could be based on the town's name and legend.

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That legend is that a Native American girl rode a horse off a cliff - the reasons are varying in the story as to why she rode off the cliff though.

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Either a) she was trying to escape capture by white men
OR b) She was despondent because her father would not let her marry a white man that she loved
OR c) She loved a Native American boy who was killed by a white man.

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Either way the story doesn't bode well for white men or for her. Her name was apparently Viroqua but what it meant or what tribe is not clear - tribes indigenous to the Madison Wisconsin area though are most likely. Still looking for something definite but that is what I know so far. Hope it helps.