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The idea for the Order of Confederate Rose organization came to Jane Latture of Birmingham, AL, after a Robert E. Lee birthday dinner in January 1993, when the speaker, Charles Lunsford, told Mrs. Latture of an Order of Robert E. Lee organization (Order of Robert E. Lee is the ladies’ auxiliary group of the Georgia Sons of Confederate Veterans.) that had been reactivated in Georgia. Knowing that other ladies in Alabama felt the need to help combat the growing attack on their Confederate Heritage, Mrs. Latture proposed the idea of their own order to some ladies who responded positively. The first name to occur to Mrs. Latture was the Order of the Confederate Rose, based on the television movie "The Rose and the Jackal" about Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a Confederate Spy.

    On May 1, 1993, eleven wives and daughters of Alabama Division Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) members met in Alabama City during the Alabama SCV state convention and organized the order. The ladies amended and approved the name the Order of Confederate Rose (OCR).  Borrowing ideas from the Georgia order, they mapped out the purposes and the structure of the organization.  One evening late in May, Jane Latture met with other ladies and they wrote up a tentative constitution and by-laws for the organization.  This was not to be a lineage organization.  Love of the South and willingness to support the Sons of Confederate Veterans were to be the eligibility requirement.