1.  Lauderdale County [Alabama] Court.  Inventory Book A-1 (online at the Lauderdale Co. ALGenWeb site).  First marriage in the book:

ROSE, Bennet - BURNEY, Nancy

30 Dec 1818 (7 Jan 1818)

Z. Tate JP

If the license was obtained in Dec of 1818 and the marriage ceremony was performed in January, they had to have been married in 1819, not 1818.  This marriage bond was encased in plastic to preserve it and, according to Parham (1998: 163), there is reason to believe the "1" in "17" was trimmed off the edge, giving a false date of 7 Jan.  In a certified copy of the marriage record that was produced in 1855 as part of a bounty land application, the marriage date is, indeed, given as 17 Jan 1819.

2.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1820 (Broderbund CD-314):  there was no 1820 census in Lauderdale Co., AL.

3.  1830 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #11 of 115; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1830

AL

Lauderdale Co.

p. 6/191B/838

Ln. 23

B Rose

101 000 100 - 120 001 000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1825-1830	= Alfred (b. 1824/5)
1 male	10-14	1815-1820	= Son A (b. 1819/20)
1 male	40-49	1780-1790	= Bennet (b. 1787/8)
1 female	4 or under	1825-1830	= Rhoda (b. 1829)
2 females	5-9	1820-1825	= Rebecca (b. 1826) = Martha (b. 1822/3)
1 female	30-39	1790-1800	= Nancy (b. 1796)

"Son A" may be the Abner Rose who died 25 Oct 1832 (see Parham, 1998:39).  Listed three lines from Zachariah ROSE.

4.  1840 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #75-76 of 92; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840

AR

Limestone Co.

pp. 167B-168A

Ln. 12

Bennett Rose

121 000 010 - 002 000 100

0200000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1835-1840	= Samuel (b. 1838)
2 males	5-9	1830-1835	= Burtice (b. 1833) = William (b. 1831)
1 male	10-14	1825-1830	= Alfred (b. 1824/5)
1 male	50-59	1780-1790	= Bennet (b. 1787/8)
2 females	10-14	1825-1830	= Rhoda Ann (b. 1829) = Rebecca (b. 1826)
1 female	40-49	1790-1800	= Nancy (b. 1796)
2	persons employed in agriculture

5.  1850 Census Index/Microfilm (online at GenealogyLibrary.com):  District Four, Limestone Co., Alabama, p. 34, 483/483, enumerated 28 Aug 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Bennett Rose	62	M	Farmer	200	North Carolina
Nancy     "	54	F			South Carolina
Roda Ann  "	20	F			Alabama
William J "	19	M	"		"
Burtus S  "	6	M			"
Samuel A B "	12	M			"

6.  1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #75 of 93):  Athens P.O., District No. 2, Limestone Co., AL, p. 377A, PN 75, 546/546, enumerated 12 Jul 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Nancy Rose	63	F			200	100	South Carolina
Samuel A B Rose	21	M		Farmer			Alabama

7.  James Lynn Parham.  1998.  An Alabama Rose Garden: the Rose Family of Lauderdale and Limestone Counties.  Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD (available from the author at 1110 Hewitt St., Huntsville, AL 35816).

8.  Broderbund.  World Family Trees.  Vol. 4, Pedigree No. 880.