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Laura Martin Rose
Mrs. Rose is a native Tennessean. She
was Miss Laura Martin, born at Pulaski, Tennessee, m the year
1862, daughter of William M. Martin and Lizzie Gorin Otis. Her
grandfather, Mr. Thomas Martin, was born in Albemarle County,
Virginia, in 1799, and at the age of ten years moved with his
father, Abram Martin, to Sumner County, Tennessee, in the year
1809, when that country was still the happy hunting ground of
the Red Man. His ancestors were of Welsh origin, immigrating to
Virginia in the early days. Mr. Martin as merchant, planter and
banker impressed himself upon the history of Giles County,
Tennessee, and left a name revered by all. He was a man of
strong intellect, public spirited and noted for his uprightness
and charity.
Through her mother, a beautiful and
brilliant woman, Mrs. Rose claims French descent. The Gorins
were descendants of the Huguenots of France, two brothers
immigrating to this country and settling in Maryland. John Gorin,
her great-great-grandfather, was a revolutionary soldier, moving
to Barron County, Kentucky, in 1789. Mrs. Rose was married in
1881 to Solon E. F. Rose, of Pulaski, Tennessee, son of Colonel
Solon E. Rose, as eminent Tennessee lawyer. This union brought
together two of Tennessee's most prominent families. She is the
mother of three children, a daughter and two sons. Her daughter,
Lizzie Otis Rose, died some years ago. Her sons, Martin and
Solon Clifton, live with their parents at West Point,
Mississippi.
Mrs. Rose at the present time enjoys the
distinguished honor of being the president of the Mississippi
division. United Daughters of the Confederacy. Prior to her
election to this high position, she was historian of the
division for two years. She did good work along historical
lines. She has written several papers of interest and value,
namely, "The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Its
Objects and Missions," "Arlington, Its Past and Present,"
"The Ku Klux Klan," giving authentic history of the
origin of that famous "klan." Her public work has been along
United Daughters of the Confederacy lines, and she has thrown
into it all the love and enthusiasm of her nature for her
beloved Southland. She has stood for the truth of history,
believing that "History is the life of a nation," and has been
untiring in her efforts to present in her work the truths of the
history of the Southern Confederacy, that "Storm-cradled Nation"
that fell.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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