Her father was a lawyer[2] and state legislator, the second Black man admitted to the North Carolina bar during Reconstruction; he was also dean of the law department at Shaw University.
Love's stories "present the healthy and stable lives of children, particularly through farm life, as a means for finding value in the characteristics of Southern black communities.
[11] Rose Leary married World War I veteran George Bishop Love in 1925; he taught auto mechanics at Tuskegee Institute and North Carolina A&T State College.
[23] The Leary Love Family Papers are in the special collections library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
[24] Love's memoir of growing up in Brooklyn, North Carolina, Plum Thickets and Field Daisies, was published posthumously in 1996, after the neighborhood was razed for urban renewal and highway construction.