Rosa Lee Tucker

After her graduation she taught school for one year. On June 17, 1886, she married Charles Smith Battle.^[8] In the same year, she became the manager of the post office in Okolona, Mississippi, where her mother was postmaster. She managed the office acceptably for two years. In 1888, she was elected State Librarian of Mississippi, a position she held for two terms.^[2] As she was less than twenty years old when elected to that responsible position, she might have been the youngest woman ever chosen to fill an office of so high a grade.^[9]

In 1901, the family settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Charles started a timber business. He was active in politics in the U.S. but not in Canada.^[8] During World War I, she worked with the Red Cross. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She died in the Vancouver General Hospital, September 23, 1946, and was survived by one daughter and two sons.^[10]

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis (Public domain ed.). R.H. Henry & Company. p. 454.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Parker, Charles Whately; Greene, Barnet M. (1922). Who's who in Canada: An Illustrated Biographical Record of Men and Women of the Time. Vol. 16 (Public domain ed.). International Press.
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• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "Rosa Lee Tucker". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton.

• Southam-Maclean (1946). Canada Lumberman. Vol. 66. Southam-Maclean.
• Wright, John D. (2013). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Civil War Era Biographies. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-87803-6.

• Works by or about Rosa Lee Tucker at the Internet Archive