After Rowe's death in 1823, White continued her work without any financial assistance from missionary societies.
Orphaned at age eleven, Charlotte Atlee was raised by her older sister, Elizabeth, in Massachusetts.
[1][2] In 1815, Charlotte White applied to become a missionary in Burma with the newly founded American Baptist Board for Foreign Missions.
Her application was controversial as many members of the Board believed that only ordained males should be appointed missionaries.
In December 1821, The Reformer published an anonymous letter claiming that the prominent missionaries called the Serampore Trio (William Carey, William Ward, and Joshua Marshman) were expropriating property belonging to the Baptist Missionary Society for their own profit.
Charlotte remained in Digah for three more years supervising the schools and church, receiving no salary or financial assistance from any missionary organization.
[8][4] In the United States, Charlotte Rowe founded a girls school in Philadelphia and wrote articles with the pseudonym of "Honesta" for a newspaper.
By 1850 she had moved back to her birthplace of Lancaster where she worked as Principal of Strasburg Female Seminary.