From the book entitled: History of Licking County, O.
Its Past and Present
By: Hill, Neil N. Jr
Publisher: A. A. Graham & Co., Newark, OH, 1881
W. J. Rhodes, of Jersey Township, farmer and stock raiser, born in this
township January
19, 1830; son of William and grandson of John Rhodes, who emigrated to
this county from Maryland, with his family about 1812, settling first
in Licking township, and afterwards, about 1824, coming to this
township. His mother, Sarah Geiger, daughter of Anthony (Jeiger, an
early settler of this county, was born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Rhodes is the fourth of ten children, five of whom survive, as
follows: Anthony G., deceased; Joseph, now of Marion county, Iowa;
John, of Jackson county, Iowa; W. J., Philip, of this township; Rachel
(Gilliland); Sarah, deceased; Henry, deceased; Mary Ann, deceased; and
George, deceased. Mr. Rhodes was married in 1856 to Amanda, 'daughter
of John Beem, and has three children—Ella, Sarah and George.
The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy