When Rosie Emma Lou Shepard was born on 16 April 1896, in Waterloo, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, her father, Thomas Abraham Shepard, was 31 and her mother, Mary Jane Gean, was 29. She married Benjamin H Butler on 16 April 1911. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and Civil District 7, Obion, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 13 November 1974, in Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78.