The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Center Township, pages 533-534
Charles R. Rose, a retired farmer of Danville, was born in Mercer County, Ky., March 7, 1806, the youngest of two sons of Charles and Mary (Lewis) Rose. He was reared a farmer at his brother's home, and Sept. 3, 1839, he married Barthena P., only daughter of Isaac Mitchell, of Mercer County, Ky. She was born July 18, 1805, and died at Danville, Ind., April 19, 1880. Mr. Rose engaged in agriculture for himself in 1828 on a small farm in Mercer County, given him by his father, on which he lived until 1836, when, losing his property, he rented land in the same county where he farmed till 1850. He then removed with his family to Indiana, where he purchased a farm of 135 acres in Eel River Township, Hendricks County, on which he farmed for eight years, when he exchanged his farm for one in Center Township near Danville, known as the Billy Blanton farm, containing 172 acres, on which he lived eight years. In 1866 he retired from farming and became a permanent resident of Danville, where until lately he has dealt and traded in real estate. In 1854 he was elected one of the County Commissioners of Hendricks County for a term of three years, and re-elected in 1857, but at the end of one year he resigned, having sold out and removed from that part of the county. He has four children living--M.H. Rose, M.D., of Thorntown, Ind., who served as a surgeon in the Union army through all the late war; B.M. Rose, who served four years as a private in the Union army; Elizabeth Ann, wife of W.A. Caldwell, of Kentucky; and Mollie R., widow of the late Dr. John T. Warner, of Neosha Falls. Zilpha died at Danville in 1875, aged twenty-nine years; Charles Dwight died in the army at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1863, aged nineteen years; William died in Kentucky, aged twenty-two months, and Leslie died near Danville in 1862, aged fourteen years. Mr. Rose and his entire family are members of the Presbyterian church of Danville. Politically he is a Republican.