All notes on Frederick Rhodes and his descendants from:
Sherrill, William Lander, Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina: contai ning interesting and authentic facts of Lincoln County history through t he years 1749 to 1937 (Charlotte, N.C.: Observer Print. House, 1937), p p. 363-367.
The Rhodes family, prominent in Lincoln County since the pioneer, Frederi ck Rhodes, settled on Hoyle's Creek about 1750.