William Pinckney Rose
William Pinckney Rose (April 24, 1787 – January 22, 1850) was an American soldier.[1]
Life
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]
References
- ↑ Daughters of Republic of Texas - Vol I. Turner Publishing Company. June 15, 1995. ISBN 978-1-56311-214-0.
- ↑ "William Pinckney Rose: Leader of the Regulators in the Regulator-Moderator War". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved April 17, 2025.
- ↑ Lineage Book. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 1912.
- ↑ O'Connor, Louise (September 26, 2018). Wild Rose: The Life and Times of Victor Marion Rose, Poet and Historian of Early Texas. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-62349-675-3.
- ↑ Grimsted, David (May 21, 1998). American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535366-2.