Alfred Alexander Rose

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Alfred was a son of Bennet Rose. He was born about 1825 in Alabama. He married 27 June 1847 to Mary Gibbs who was born c1829 in Tennessee or Mississippi. They had 5 children before Alfred went off to the civil war. Alfred was apparently one of many Roses who left Alabama to go to Mississippi. He married there and one of his children was born there. For some reason he moved back to Alabama on 1 Nov. 1849 and in 1861 he joined the Southern cause when the Civil War broke out. He died 28 Nov. 1863 at the Academy Hospital at Marietta, Georgia. He was buried in the Confederate cemetery near Marietta.