In the part of her memoir retelling events leading up to the Texas Revolution and the Runaway Scrape, Dilue (Rose) Harris tells of a little sister named Missouri, aged about two years, who became ill and died at about two years of age. These events happened March-April 1836. In the previous December (1835), a baby girl was born to Pleasant and Margaret Rose who was not yet named by April 1836. In her memoir, Dilue Harris refers to this months-old infant only at "The Babe." Their father died in 1839 in Harris County, Texas, and in his probate file is mentioned a daughter named Missouri, aged about 4 years (in 1839-40). The latter Missouri is of an age to be the "Babe" of the Runaway Scrape. It was a common practice in that day to name a younger child after an older sibling who had died. There is a strong circumstantial case to be made with these facts that the Missouri Rose named as an heir in the probate of Pleasant W Rose's estate is the younger daughter referred to as "The Babe" by Mrs. Harris.
