The following is from Phil Stucker, 293 Falcon LN,
Kempner, TX 76539.
I am at a lost with my Rhodes/Rhoads family of So. IL. My
grandmother was Annie Ethel Rhoades/Rhodes/Rhoads born 3/24/1897 at
Grandtower, IL on the MS River across and north of Cape Giardeau, MO. Her
father was Joseph S Rhodes b: 8/16/ 1866 (68) he married Sarah Smith
1/9/1893 on the Franklin/Williamson Co. line in So IL near Corinth, IL. He
died 6/11/1954 a retired coal miner in Herrin, IL. Joseph Rhodes' dau.
throught the name of his parents to be a John Rhodes (from NC/TN area)who m.
a Helen Blaunt/Blount. Joseph Rhodes' granddaughter (he lived last years
with her parents) says he was indian to some degree as he had indian things
in his trunk but he didn't speak about it much for fear of KKK. Her mother,
Grace Clyde,(the youngest dau. was dark hair/eyed )looked quite aboriginal
indian but the rest of the girls (Annie, Helen, Faye)all looked blue
eyed/blond white. All through there were some Rhodes in Grandtower, none
seem to fit. He supposedly had a brother Matt (Matthew), and another brother
Henry and two sisters , possibly a Sally and ?. Joseph's census for
1900 at Grandtower says he was born in IL but no telling who did the
reporting as no family with him has been found in the 1870, 1880 census.
There was a Heny there (like reported as a brother and the other brother
never married) but his data says born in England). Never see a Matthew in
any census in IL althrough heard my grandmother speak of him fondly many
times, that he was a batchelor that lived in the woods along the MS River in
a log shack and lived off the land never going to a town.