Wife:  Mahala Guinn Stark (Feb 3, 1812 - Jan. 7, 1864)

Children:  Jeremiah, born 1829;  Nancy Jane, born 1831;  Kindred Mason, born 1833;  Martha, born 1838
Asberry, born 1843;  Albert, born 1846;  Sarah, born 1848

Profession(s):  Farmer

In 1853 Robert and Mahala sold their farm on Spring Creek for $2,515.93. Apparently this sale marks the approximate time of their departure for Missouri. Already, Robert’s older brother, Mason Rose was established in Pike County, Missouri. His oldest brother, Kindred Rose, had gone to Greene County, Missouri about 1831. Robert and his entire family came down the Ohio River to St. Louis. Here he purchased supplies and a six barrel pistol. They continued along the river to Louisiana, Missouri where they unloaded their supplies and started their trip to the west. The wagon road ran through the community of Bowling Green which is now the town of Curryville. They then went west four miles. The new address would have been Spencer Township, Pike County, Missouri.

Here Robert Rose purchased land for 24 cents an acre from the government. During the frontier days, there were many areas not served by a regular minister. This was the condition in the frontier community of Western Pike County, Missouri. On Sundays the farm families gathered at Rose’s School House for services, Robert Rose was the lay minister and also led the singing. He lived in this area for twelve years before he sickened and died of tuberculosis at the age of fifty two. He survived his father back in Tennessee by only eight months. He was described as being of fair height and proportions, blue eyes, fair hair, and a volatile temperament. Both Robert and his wife, Mahala, lie buried in marked graves in their old family burying ground.