Rosa Kershaw Walker

Rosa Kershaw Walker (, Kershaw; after first marriage, Turnbull; after second marriage, Walker; literary initials, R. K. Walker; 1840s – May 7, 1909) was an American author, journalist, and newspaper editor of the long nineteenth century. She was one of the best-known literary women in St. Louis, Missouri, and a pioneer woman journalist of that city. Her father was a wealthy and aristocratic Mississippi planter.

Descended from an old Charleston, South Carolina family, she was reared in a cultured and refined home. The Civil War, however, stripped her family of its fortune. a cotton planter of Mississippi,

When her failing health forced her to give up the work at the Globe-Democrat, she was succeeded by her daughter, Marie Turnbull Bauduy. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

In her later life, her health was failing for several years. She went to Macon, Georgia to spend the winter with her brother, George P. Kershaw, but her condition did not improve and she returned to St. Louis on May 3, 1909, accompanied by her daughter, Marie Bauduy. Rosa Kershaw Walker died at her home in St. Louis, May 7, 1909, after more than a year of illness, due to nervous breakdown. There were two surviving children: Marie Bauduy and Louis A. Turnbull.

Selected works Americans of gentle birth and their ancestors : a genealogical encyclopedia, volume 1, embracing many authenticated lineages and biographical sketches of the founders of the Colonies and their descendants found in all parts of the United States. By Mrs. H D Pittman; Mrs. R K Walker (Saint Louis, MO : Buxton & Skinner, 1903). (Text)