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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

W. E. ROSSER.
    W. E. Rosser, who was well known as a surveyor of Arkansas, was born in
Campbell county, Virginia, October 7, 1842, and died on the 14th of May, 1914.
His parents, John and Martha (Johnson) Rosser, were also natives of the Old
Dominion and in early life became residents of Texas. The father was a
well-to-do and prominent citizen, who exerted considerable influence over public
thought and action in the locality in which he lived. He had one son, Thomas L.
Rosser, who served with the rank of brigadier general under General Robert E.
Lee in the Civil war. He was a graduate of the West Point Military Academy and
was on active duty throughout the period of hostilities between the north and
the south. John Rosser, the father, was married four times and became the father
of seventeen children, born of three of the marriages. His last marriage was to
the mother of W. E. Rosser. In February, 1868, he removed with his family from
Texas to Arkansas and his remaining days were passed in this state.

    W. E. Rosser spent his youthful days in his father's home and having arrived
at years of maturity he was married in 1866 to Miss Virginia Hudson, who was
born in Mississippi and is a daughter of John and Mary (Hartley) Hudson, the
former a native of Mississippi, while the latter was born in Alabama. They
removed to eastern Texas and it was there that Mrs. Rosser was reared. The
father was a merchant, thus providing for the support of his family, which
numbered five children, all of whom have departed this life with the exception
of Mrs. Rosser. There was one, a brother, Thomas J. Hudson, who died while held
as a prisoner of war by the northern army during the conflict between the north
and the south. Mr. and Mrs. Rosser became parents of seven children: Mary, the
wife of D. W. Moore, who is a minister of the Christian church now located at
Liberty, Missouri; Judge Malcolm E., who was graduated in law at
Charlottesville, Virginia, and is now a prominent attorney of Muskogee,
Oklahoma; Obeira, the wife of J. A. Dearing, engaged in the hardware and
furniture business at Shawnee, Oklahoma; John Thomas, who is engaged in the
furniture brokerage business; Florence, who is a twin of John Thomas and is now
the wife of Dr. W. D. Pigg, a physician of Shawnee, Oklahoma; Olga, the deceased
wife of E. M. Hunter; and Annie, the wife of J. G. Cubage, of Little Rock.

    W. E. Rosser was educated in Virginia, pursuing his advanced studies in
Emory and Henry College. He entered the Civil war when young, joining the army
at the outbreak of hostilities and served for four years. In 1868 he came to
Fayetteville and taught school for a number of years. He was a teacher in the
State Normal for ten years and an able educator who imparted readily and clearly
to others the knowledge that he had acquired, making for himself a creditable
name and place in educational circles. In the latter years of his life he
followed surveying and won a very substantial measure of success in that
business. His political endorsement was given to the democratic party and his
religious faith was that of the Christian church. He commanded the confidence
and good will of all and as the years passed he gained friends wherever he went.
He had reached the age of about seventy years when death called him and he left
behind him the record of an untarnished name.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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