Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Fayette County.
The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, pages 588-589.

MRS. ROSE VERTNER (JOHNSON) JEFFREY
Was educated at Lexington, Ky., and has been a resident of that city since
about 1857.  Her maiden name was Griffith, and she was born in Natchez,
Mississippi; was the adopted child of a wealthy and prominent planter
named Vertner, near Port Gibson, Miss.; while at school at Lexington,
began to write poems for the Louisville Journal, which its poet-editor,
Geo. D. Prentice, encouraged for their "beautiful imagery and delightful
rhythm," and declared, at a later period, that "heaven made her a poet,"
that she was "the daughter of a poet and man of genius," and wrote poetry
"because she must." Her portrait was published in Graham's Magazine, in
1856, with a handsome biographical sksetch and some of her poetry.  In
1858, her "Poems by Rosa" were published in Boston, in a 12mo. volume of
334 pages, and received with great favor.  Some years after the death of
her husband, Mr. Johnson, a prominent lawyer and elegant gentleman, she
was married to Mr. Alexander Jeffrey, of Lexington.  Their home is as
famed for its generous hospitality, as its mistress is "eminent for beauty
and poesy among even the women of Kentucky." [Note: Poems shown: "The
Sunset City" and "The Midnight Prayer."]

Vertner Griffith Johnson Jeffrey Prentice Graham
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MS Louisville-Jefferson-KY

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