Name: Walker, Rosa Ragland
Occupation:
aka:
Sex: F
Birth: 2 Feb 1858*
Death: 21 Feb 1919
Marker: Yes
Spouse(s): Joseph James, Jefferson Henry Walker
Parents: Henry and Bettie A. Clayton Ragland
Children: Bettie R. James Whittaker
Affiliations:
Notes: Undertaker – Irving Way Hill Co.
*Official records are cited when information differs on gravestones.
THE DAILY PROGRESS
(Charlottesville, Virginia)
Friday February 21, 1919
Page 1
The 1880 Census shows Henry and Bettie Ragland, their daughter Rosa, and Rosa’s husband Joseph James (and one-year-old daughter Bettie James) all living and working at the Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott City, Maryland. Their presence there might have had some connection with the fact that the principal of the school was their neighbor from Albemarle County, Sarah Nicholas Randolph, great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson.
RICHMOND PLANET
(Richmond, Virginia)
Saturday January 22, 1898
Page 4
Hunter and Rosa Flannagan, Rosa Ragland Walker’s young visitors, were students at Manassas Industrial School, a private, residential school founded in 1893 by Jennie Dean, who had formerly been enslaved in Prince William County.
RICHMOND PLANET
(Richmond, Virginia)
Saturday March 16, 1901
Page 1
