William Pinckney Rose

Rose was born on April 24, 1787 in Granville County, North Carolina, the son of Frederick and Mary (Washington) Rose. During the War of 1812, he led a group of militia in Louisiana to enlist under Andrew Jackson. He participated in the Battle of New Orleans.^[2]

On January 16, 1817, Rose married widow Mary Vardaman Smith of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana before moving to Copiah County, Mississippi.^[3] Rose was participant in the Constitutional Convention of 1832. In 1839 he moved to Harrison County, Texas, where he became one of the Regulators.^[4]

Rose died on January 22, 1850.^[5]