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Rosa Lula Barnes (August 22, 1868 - 1917) was a grocer, real estate investor, and community leader in the United States. [1] [2] [3]
Barnes was born in Huntsville, Alabama on August 22, 1868, and educated at Huntsville Normal and Industrial Institute. She moved to Savannah, Georgia. [1] She married Richard Barnes in 1884 and opened a grocery store on Price Street running the business for ten years until it closed in 1893. [3] During this time, she invested in real state and stock as well as serving as the Director to the Wage Earner’s Bank of Savannah and the Afro-American Company. [3] She was a leader in the Order of Calanthe, the women's auxiliary organization to the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. [1] [2]
Her husband died in 1911. [1] She died in 1917. [4]