When Rose Princella Carter was born on 12 January 1894, in Clay, Alabama, United States, her father, Joseph Andrew Carter, was 58 and her mother, Permelia Ann Francis Elder, was 41. She married Wyatt Alonzo Newsome on 18 December 1913, in Clay, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Union, Clay, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 21 Snows, Calhoun, Alabama, United States for about 20 years. She died on 10 August 1979, at the age of 85, and was buried in Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Calhoun, Alabama, United States.