[2] As an adult, while living in Ashtabula, Ohio, she organized the first anti-slavery society of that time in that section of the United States.

During the Civil War, she wrote constantly for the various papers and journals of that day on the union and emancipation, using a male pseudonym in order to gain attention.

The "Miller farm" was as noted for its hospitality to every one who was in need of assistance or sympathy, as it was for its cattle and blooded stock, which claimed so much devotion and attention from Rosa as to cause her to be dubbed "Tomboy".

He located on the county's Middle Ridge before there was a road there, made a clearing in the woods and built his cabin, and there developed a farm and passed his life.

[9] While attending the Madison seminary, Avery wrote stirring anti-slavery essays, which were met with derision and abuse.

[5] Two students in her school confessed to her that her anti-slavery papers induced them to give up their ambition for a career in religion to study law and politics.

[3] During their residence in Ashtabula, Ohio, she organized the first anti-slavery society ever known in that village, but not a clergyman in the town would give notice of its meetings so late as two years before the American Civil War, and that, too, in the county home of Joshua Reed Giddings and Benjamin Wade.

[10] During the years of the civil war, Avery's was actively engaged in writing for various journals on the subject of union and emancipation, using male pseudonyms, in order to command attention.

Sinai and make covenant with heaven for the speedy union of spiritual or woman's kingdom to man's or the material world."

)[11] During ten years' residence in Erie, Pennsylvania, besides writing occasional articles for the newspaper, she disseminated her views on social questions, love, matrimony and religion in romance to high-school graduates in their organ, the High School News, over the pen name, "Sue Smith".

About that time, her husband was appointed by the Young Men's Christian Association of Erie as visitor to the criminals confined in the city prison.

It so chanced that I was seated, when the services began, in the back parlour just in front of the mantel, which faces, if you remember, the little alcove, where Rosa wrote.