JEFFREY, Rosa Vertner Griffith, author, born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1828. She was the daughter of John Y. Griffith, who gained a reputation as a writer of tales and poems Miss Griffith was educated at the Episcopal seminary in Lexington, Kentucky, and at seventeen years of age married Claude M. Johnson, and after his death Alexander Jeffrey, of Edinburgh, Scotland. She became a contributor to the "Louisville Journal" in 1850, under the pen-name of "Rosa," and has published, among other works, "Poems, by Rosa" (Boston, 1857); "Woodburn," a novel (New York, 1864); "Daisy Dare and Baby Power, poems" (Philadelphia, 1871); "The Crimson Hand and other Poems" (1881); and "Marsh," a novel (1884).