From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, currently out of print.
James Alonzo Rose was born June 22, 1858 in Dallas County, Texas, died August 14, 1923. He married Eliza Alice Sage, the youngest of ten children born to Daniel T. and Jane Dye Sage. Her parents came to Texas in 1850 and are buried in the Old Ferris Cemetery.
James and Eliza were married November 13, 1881 at the Baptist Church in Scyene, Texas. He farmed northeast of Dallas and north of White Rock Lake. He supplied his family with plenty of wild game, as he loved hunting and fishing.
James was a man of great stature. He was almost seven feet tall and weighed four hundred and fifty pounds. As a young man he played the fiddle at dances and parties. In 1914, he bought one hundred and four acres of land at Handley, Texas, ten miles east of Fort Worth. They had a big house and he built some of the furniture. For the kitchen he built the cabinet, a pie safe, buffet and a long harvest table with benches. He also built a big four-poster bed with a trundle bed, a coat and hat rack and a day bed. He put all this furniture together with wooden pegs, then painted it. He farmed on his land at Handley until his death in 1923. His wife, Alice, lived there with two of their sons, Rube and Andy, until her death on April 14, 1948. Rube and Andy continued farming until their deaths, Rube in 1958 then Andy in 1975. Andy was the last of the ten Rose children to die. The banks of Lake Arlington are the edge of what used to be the Rose farm.
The ten children of James and Eliza Alice were:
1) John Henry Rose born October 16, 1882; died in the early 1960’s. He was married to Uhlma Ogle October 7, 1908 at Garland, Texas by the Reverend McCarter. They had three children: Ouida Marie, Orleans and Joe Mitchell Rose.
2) Benjamin Alexander Rose born September 10, 1884; died August 2, 1963. He married Vertie Vera Crosby, born January 21, 1888, died August 10, 1982. They married August 7 1914 and had seven children: James Albert (Puchie), Malcolm Crosby (Mack), Jessie Marie, Mary Alice, Paula Miranda, Eva Tex and Lila Faye Rose.
3) Myrtle Rose born December 4, 1886, died February 15, 1888.
4) James Alonzo Rose, Jr. born August 26, 1889, died April 3, 1913. “Lon”, as he was better known, had gone to Old Mexico to live with his uncle, John Walker Rose. He took smallpox in March of 1913 and died within a few weeks. He was buried in Tampico, Old Mexico.
5) Mary Etta Rose born March 19, 1891, died July 2, 1955. She married Campbell D. Goforth, born February 19, 1875, died December 8, 1959. They were married January 8, 1918 at Seminary Hill in Fort Worth, Texas by the Reverend Cal Capp. They had seven children. Their two living children are Ida and David Goforth.
6) Joseph Rueben Rose born June 30, 1894, died May 24, 1958.
7) Charlie Thomas Rose born March 1, 1895, died May 31, 1902.
8) Jacob Oscar Rose born November 29, 1897, died September 5, 1970. He married Mexie Wilson.
9) Andrew Slone Rose born December 28, 1900, died July 8, 1975. Better known as “Andy”, he never married.
10) Susie Katherine Rose born July 16, 1902, died February 5, 1968. She had three children: Shirley Ann, Jesse Wayne, and Marilyn Huffman.
By Paula Rose Rosenbaum, granddaughter
