Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Her early childhood was passed at a country home near Port Gibson, Mississippi, called "Burlington", and owned by her adopted father.

[1] In 1845, Rosa was married at the age of 17 to Claude M. Johnson (d. 1861), a wealthy citizen of Lexington.

In 1858, she was appointed by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association as vice regent for Kentucky.

[4] After her husband's death, Rosa and the four children removed to Rochester, New York, where she met and married Alexander Jeffrey of Edinburgh, Scotland.

In 1850, under the signature of "Rosa," she became a contributor to the Louisville Journal, of which George D. Prentice was editor.

Her volume of poems, Daisy Dare and Baby Power, was published in Philadelphia, in 1871.