William Rhodes

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William Rhodes, the man, who was he? What is known about him comes from his military, pension, obituary, and other related papers. William was born in 1745, probably in Virginia. Little to nothing is known about his early life, but it was said h e had an extraordinary athletic ability in his youth and through his military life in the Revolution. On September 1st , 1775 at Alexandria, Virginia he enlisted as a private soldier in the 2nd Virginia Regiment. In September 1779, he was wounde d at the Battle of Stony Point; he was subsequently promoted to Corporal. He fought in many of the major battles of the American Revolution, along with an untold number of skirmishes. The battlefields ranged from north to New York, and as far so uth as Georgia. During Williams's tour of duty he was wounded many times in battle, five times severely. William Rhodes was discharged in Richmond, Virginia, about July 3, 1783 after nearly eight years of loyal service to his country. The follow ing is more about William Rhodes during the American Revolutionary War.

William Rhodes of the 2nd Virginia Regiment, Continental Line from 1775-1783:

"The heroism and gallantry of the second Virginia regiment I cannot help particularly mentioning; they would do honor to any country in the world. It is universally believed they behaved the best of any troops in the field." ~ Virginia Gazette , October 17, 1777

In Alexandria, Virginia on September 1st, 1775 William enlisted as a private soldier for the term of one year, into the first company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment. The company was under the command of Captain. George Johnston, and the regiment u nder Colonel William Woolford. Colonel Woolford, with his men, were ordered to the vicinity of Norfolk, VA to stop the attacks and drive out of Virginia the British forces and loyalists under the command of former Royal Governor Lord Dunmore. Th e first known battle of the 2nd Virginia was at Great Bridge, VA on December 3, 1775. Colonel. Woolford, with his men, defeated the British regulars and loyalists of Lord Dunmore. This battle is considered by some to be the "Bunker Hill of the S outh." The end result was that Dunmore lost his base at Norfolk, and soon left the Virginia area. Later that month the soldiers were given their first uniforms at the campus of William and Mary College. They were issued frontier dress which cons isted of purple dyed hunting frocks, with capes and cuffs, fringed down the front, blue shroud leggings, plain linen shirts with cuffs, round hats, and given tomahawks. The following year they received a more military-looking uniform.

On February 13, 1776 the 2nd Virginia was accepted for service into the Continental Line. Early that summer, the 2nd Virginia was ordered to New England to join the Continental Army under George Washington. At Williamsburg in August of 1776, enl istment's in the regiment were up. Private. William Rhodes was regularly discharged, and immediately re-enlisted for three years or the war, in contrast to the majority of the Veterans who did not and went home. Some of the battles the 2nd Virgi nia participated in during the year of 1776 were the battles of Long Island, Harlem Heights, and White Planes, NY. In September, Colonel. Woolford resigned and Lt. Colonel Alexander Spotswood succeeded as commander of the 2nd Virginia.

January 17, 1777, William's company commander Capt. Thomas Tibbs died, Capt. John Peyton Harrison succeeded him. Later in the year, the 2nd Virginia was involved in the capture of Elizabethtown, NJ, the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, PA . The following was printed about William's regiment in the newspaper Virginia Gazette on October 17, 1777: "The heroism and gallantry of the second Virginia regiment I cannot help particularly mentioning; they would do honor to any country in t he world. It is universally believed they behaved the best of any troops in the field." During the winter of 1777-1778, the 2nd Virginia encamped at Valley Forge, PA. In December of 1777 at Valley Forge, the regiment had a force of 406 men, bu t of them 245 were sick. By March of 1778, the 2nd Virginia's total strength had dropped 246 men, a loss of 160 from the previous December. On June 29, 1778, they were involved in the battle of Monmouth, NJ.

Early that year, Washington recommended to Congress that in each battalion there be a company of Light Infantry. The Light Infantry was put in the places of most danger, and as Washington said, "[They were] to be constantly near the enemy and gi ve 'em every possible annoyance." Then, in August of 1778, there was an order to organize the Light Infantry. The men were handpicked from each regiment. "They were to be the best of men, the most hardy and active marksmen and commanded by goo d partisan officers." Later training would be personally overseen by drillmaster Baron Von Steuben. The Light Infantry troops were the first on the field of battle, and served as scouts and flankers. To be selected as one of the drafts for thi s elite force was a great honor. Private. William Rhodes was recorded as a member of the Light Infantry in September of 1778. In June 1779 the Light Infantry companies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia Lines were combined in two regiments . Adjutant-General Alexander Scammell reported the following: "the above companies almost to the man are composed of proper-sized well-built men from the five feet seven to five feet nine inches high, who have been in actual service two, three , and some almost four years".

The Light Infantry was put to the test on July 15, 1779 by the taking of a British fort at Stony Point on the Hudson River in New York. It was planned that Light Infantry alone would take the fortress. A Corps Light Infantry was organized into f our regiments. The companies were pulled from most of the Continental regiments of the various colonies. It was ordered that the officers be armed with spontoons or spears, and the soldiers with bayonets on unloaded muskets. The capture was to t ake place under the cover of darkness. It began around midnight, under a barrage of heavy cannon and musketry fire from the British fort at Stony Point. The Light Infantry captured the heavily-guarded fort without the Continentals firing a shot , capturing 532, with 80 killed or wounded. The 2nd Virginia was in the First Regiment commanded by Colonel. Christian Febiger of the Light Infantry Corps. The following is a letter from Colonel. Christian Febiger to Thomas Jefferson regarding t he storming of Stony Point: "To his Excellence, Governor Jefferson, of the State of Virginia July 21, 1779 Sir: You must undoubtedly before this have heard of and seen the particulars of our glorious and successful enterprise at Stony Point, whi ch renders my giving you a detail unnecessary. But as I had the honor to command all the troops from our State employed on that service I think it my duty, in justice to those brave men, to inform you that the front platoon of the forlorn hope , [the phrase "forlorn hope" in modern terms would be a suicide squad ], consisted of ?aUc Virginians, and the front of the vanguard, of Virginians only, and the front of the column on the right of Posey's battalion composed of four companies of V irginians and two Pennsylvanians.

Lieutenant Colonel Colonelled the advance composed of 150 Volunteers, first entered the works. Seven of my men in the forlorn hope who entered first were either killed or wounded. I have the happiness to say that every officer and soldier behave d with a fortitude and bravery peculiar to men who are determined to be free, and overcame every danger and difficulty without confusion or delay, far surpassing any enterprise in which I have had an active part. I request neither reward nor tha nks, but I am happy in having done my duty and shared the dangers and honor of the day; but could wish, if not inconsistent, that the citizens of Virginia might know from your authority that their troops deserve their thanks and support. Christi an Ferbiger, Colonel." William Rhodes was one of the soldiers among the six Virginia companies in Colonel. Christian Febiger's First Regiment. He was among those on the front line, which had captured the fort that night. He was also one of the 2 9 privates of the regiment that was wounded during the battle. On August 22, 1779, the 2nd Virginia Light Infantry was involved in the battle of Poweles Hook. Of the British, 7 officers and 151 privates were captured, and about 40 of them were k illed or wounded by the bayonet, the only weapon used. Not a musket was discharged on the American side. When William Rhodes's term of enlistment was up in September 1779, he re-enlisted for the duration of the war. That month he was promoted t o Corporal, with an increase in pay from 6 2/3 dollars to 7 1/3 dollars per month.

In December of 1779, the 2nd Virginia Regiment left Virginia to march south to Charleston, SC. Two companies of the 2nd Virginia were attached to the 3rd Virginia Regiment, belonging to Colonel. Abraham Buford. The British besieged the America n soldiers at Charleston, SC in April 1780. Then, on May 12, the British captured much of the armies of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. It was the worst loss of the American Revolution. The Americans had over two thousand Continent als captured, seven hundred being Virginians, which was nearly all of their Continental troops. Most of the 2nd Virginia Regiment was captured, except for a handful of men who were with Captain Alexander Parker. William Rhodes was in Captain Cat tlet's Company, which was one of the two companies of the 2nd VA that was still with Colonel Buford. Buford and his troops, who had been delayed leaving Virginia, had inadvertently missed the siege and the subsequent capture. This would later pr ove not so lucky.

A few days later, Colonel Abraham Buford and his regiment were within 40 miles of Charleston, SC, when he received the news of the surrender. He then got the order to retreat to Hillsoro, NC. Cornwallis sent Lieutenant Colonel Banaste Tarleton w ith his Legion in pursuit of Buford's Continentals. On the 29th , Tarleton's Calvary caught up with Buford's rear guard near a place called Waxhaws. The Virginians formed a line on open ground but it was overrun and encircled by the charging cal vary. The Continentals became a helpless mass, many men throwing down their arms. Buford had an Ensign raise a white flag. Tarleton himself charged the flag, then his horse was killed. When Tarleton's men saw that he was down under a flag of tru ce, his men went mad. Tarleton could not or would not hold back his men. They went sabering left and right, ignoring any cries for quarter. Then, the Tory Infantry came in with bayonets. By now the Americans were utterly helpless. Most had dropp ed their muskets when the white flag was raised. The Tory Infantry continued the sweep over the ground, plunging their bayonets into any living American; not a man was spared. Out of the massacre, the American battle cries of "Tarleton's quarter !" and "The Waxhaw Massacre" came and became household words. Henceforth, Banaste Tarleton was known as Bloody Tarleton. American casualties were 113 killed and 203 prisoners, but 150 of these were too badly wounded to be moved and thus were par olled where they laid. While Colonel. Buford was able to escape on horseback, William Rhodes's company commander Captain Thomas Catlett was killed. Most certainly William was among the wounded. James Keep who was with William at Waxhaw was captu red; it is believed that William was also made captive.

About June 1781, the American captives at Charleston were exchanged, or paroled, and warned not to be within forty miles of a British camp. Most of the men went home, but some of the soldiers did not heed the warning, and private James Keep an d Corporal William Rhodes where put under command of Captain Alexander Parker at Yorktown, Virginia. Parker's Company was made up the few veterans left in Virginia's Continental Army since the fall of Charleston SC. On October 1781 at Yorktown , Virginia, Captain Alexander Parker's company was given the post of honor, the front line-right flank of Anthony Wayne's Brigade on the attack force against the British. In the late fall of 1781, Captain Alexander Parker's company of old soldie rs were included in a newly formed Virginia Battalion, commanded by Lt. Colonel. Thomas Posey. His battalion consisted of nine companies from various Virginia regiments, and Captain Parker's company was its Light Infantry. The Battalion was sen t south under General Arthur St. Clair during the winter of 1781 to aid General Greene, and they where put under the command of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne in an attempt to recapture Charleston, SC and Savannah, Georgia.

In the spring of 1782, Captain Parker's company Light Infantry Company involved in skirmishes with Loyalists and Indians. The following is accounts of a skirmish that took place on the Ogeechee Road near Savannah Georgia. These accounts where fr om General Anthony Wayne, and Captain Alexander Parker. General Anthony Wayne: "On the 21st instant I received intelligence of the enemy being out in force from Savannah, in consequence of which White's dragoons and Posey's infantry were put i n motion, and at 5 o'clock in the evening arrived at Mrs. William Gibbon's, six miles northwest of Savannah. At six, an express from Lt. Colonel. Jackson announced the enemy in force of Harris's bridge on the great Ogeechee [Ogeechee] road seve n miles from town, and that a small party were at Ogeechee Jersy which he intended to attach as his Corps. Upon inquiry I found that the only route to the enemy's position was through a thick swamp of near four miles extent, with enemy deep an d dangerous morasses to pass, and to intercede the Ogeechee [Ogeechee] was of an intermediate distance from Savannah and the bridge. I was properly informed that with the difficulty attending a night march over such ground, as well as the delica cy of a maneuver that placed me between the whole of the enemy's force in Georgia". The enemy force consisted of British Cavalry and a large body of infantry picked from the Seventh Regiment, the Hessians, Tanning's and Brown's regulars, with th e Choctaw Indian, the whole commanded by Colonel Brown.

Captain Alexander Parker: The [our] van consisted of one company of light infantry and a section of dragoons, under the orders of Captain Alexander Parker. This officer was directed to hasten his march through woods and swamps, and to seize a ca useway on which Browne must necessarily pass. Parker was ordered, whenever he met the enemy, to reserve his fire, and to fall back upon him with sword and bayonet. Wayne followed with the main body, to support his van. About ten in the forenoo n Captain Parker reached the causeway, when he discovered a small patrol of cavalry in his front. Each advancing, the two parties soon met, when Captain Parker accosted the leading file, and demanded the countersign. Confounded or deceived, th e British officer, instead of falling back upon Browne, approached Parker in the attitude of friendship. He now discovered his mistake, but too late to extricate himself, and was with his patrol taken, except one dragoon, who got back to Colone l Browne, moving in column to sustain his van, with cavalry in front. Lieutenant Bowyer, who commanded our horse, was ordered to charge, which was executed with decision. Bowyer was supported by Parker with his infantry. The British cavalry wer e thrown into confusion; and as Browne's whole force was in column on the causeway, from whence there was no moving, to the right or left, the substitution of his infantry for his cavalry became impracticable, and the British colonel was oblige d to fall back.

General Anthony Wayne: The precipitate flight of the enemy prevented any part of the troops from coming into contact with them, except Lt. Colonel Posey's light company under Captain Parker and a few dragoons under Captain Hughes and Lt. Boyer , conducted by Colonel. White. This small vanguard put to route the whole of the enemy's force without the use of powder. The almost impenetrable thick woods, deep swamps and morasses into which they plunged in a dispersed state and under cove r of the night screened them from total ruin at the expense of a giant fragmentation of their arms and horses which they abandoned to secure personal safety. The few of our troops that had an opportunity to engage introduced the American sword a nd bayonet with such effect as to kill many and wound some; a number of prisoners also fell into our hands, among which is Lt. Colonel. Douglas dangerously wounded.

Captain Alexander Parker: This was accomplished without loss, as General Wayne did not get up in time to improve the advantage gained by Parker. Two of our van were killed and three were wounded. We took Major Alexander, second in command, and e ighteen dragoons, with their horses and furniture. Wayne had been delayed by the swamps, which in the South invariably presented stubborn difficulties to the march of troops. As soon as he reached Parker he pursued the enemy; but all his endeavo rs to renew the action proved abortive, and Browne made good his retreat to Savannah.

General Anthony Wayne: Even Colonel. Brown and Lt. Colonel. Ingram did not find the way to town 'til the second night after the action, and then unattended. After refreshing the troops at Mrs. Gibbon's, we advanced within view of their lines, ye sterday [May 23rd] morning detaching a few infantry and dragoons to draw the enemy out, but they declined the invitation, contenting themselves with advancing a few Indians and regulars to the skirt of a swamp, from whence they commenced a scatt ering and ineffectual fire. Finding that General Clarke was not to be enticed from his Redoubts, I returned with the troops to this place, where the last arrived this morning with the news of only five privates killed and two wounded. We had als o two dragoon horses killed and three hurt, but these we shall replace with part of the cavalry taken from the enemy. I feel myself under the highest obligation to every officer and soldier for their good conduct, zeal, and perseverance durin g a very fatiguing march of near forty miles performed in a few hours to effect this enterprise.

Captain Alexander Parker: The Indians, whom Lieutenant-Colonel Browne expected to meet, would have rendered his corps superior to that under Wayne, when the encounter might have terminated differently. General Wayne seems either to have unappris ed of this intended junction, or to have disregarded it; for he pressed forward to strike his foe, regardless of ground or number. The fortuitous success of such conduct, encourages the ardent soldier to put himself upon his fortune and his cour age, -- overlooking those numerous, sure, and effectual aids to be drawn from accurate intelligence and due circumspection. Fortune at length forsakes him, no prop remains to support him but his courage, and he falls a victim of his own presumpt ion; honored for his bravery, but condemned for his temerity.

Some weeks before General Clarke made this attempt to secure the safe entry of his Indian friends into Savannah, Wayne had intercepted a trading party of the Creeks on their way to the British garrison. Of these, the American general detaine d a few as hostages, and permitted the rest to return to their own country. This generous treatment seems to have inspired apprehensions in Savannah, that its effect would diminish the British influence among the Creeks; an event deprecated by t he enemy in case of continuance of the war, which, through improbable, might nevertheless happen. Therefore it was throught proper to prevent, by suitable succor, the interruption of this second visit. To that end Browne had been detached. Not o nly, as has been seen, did the effort fail, but it was followed by a disaster very unpleasant to the enemy, and in its conclusion pregnant with cause of regret to ourselves.

Guristersigo, a principal warrior among the Creeks, conducted the party of Indians lately expected by Clarke. Althrough he did not arrive at the appointed rendezvous so as to meet Browne, he reached in the latter part of the succeeding month. Th is warrior, accompanied by his white guides, passed through the whole State of Georgia unperceived, except by two boys, who were taken and killed; and having reached the neighborhood of Wayne on the 23rd of June, he determined to strike at a pic ket of the requisite intelligence, with negro Negros for the execution of his purpose. Wayne, in pursuance of a system adopted to avoid surprise (of which the Indian chief was uninformed), moved every night; and consequently the calculation tha t he would be on the 23rd where he had been on the 22nd, was unfounded. The reverse was the fact, which would undoubtedly have been perceived by Guristersigo had he been acquainted with the custom of the American general, and his plan of attac k would have been modified accordingly. Decamping from Gibbons's late in the evening of the 22nd, Wayne exchanged positions with his picket, and thus fortunately held the very post against which the Indian warrior had pointed his attack.

Here the light infantry under Parker (who had been for several days close to Savannah) joined, and being much harassed by the late tour of duty, was ordered by the brigadier to take post near his artillery, in the rear. Knowing but one enemy, th e garrison of Savannah, Wayne gave his entire attention to that quarter; and conscious, from his precautions, that no movement could be made by the enemy in Savannah without due notice, he forbore to burden his troops with the protection of hi s rear, because in his opinion unnecessary. A single sentinel only from the quarter-guard was posted in the rear, on the main road leading through the camp to Savannah, and the very road, which Guristersigo meant to take.

Soon after nightfall the Indian chief at the head of his warriors emerged from the deep swamps, in which he had lain concealed, and gained the road. He moved in profound silence, and about three in the morning reached the vicinity of our camp. ; here he halted, and made his disposition for battle. Believing that he had to deal with a small detachment only, his plan of attack was simple and efficient. Preceded by a few of the most subtle and daring of his comrades, directed to surpris e and kill the sentinel, he held himself ready to press forward with the main body upon the signal to advance. This was not long delayed. His wily precursors having encompassed our sentinel, killed him, when Guristersigo, bounding from his stand , fell with his whole force upon our rear. Aroused from sleep, the light infantry stood to their arms, and the matrosses closed with their guns. But the enemy was amongst them; which being perceived by Parker, he judiciously drew off in silenc e and joined the quarter-guard behind Gibbons's house at headquarters.

The general had about this time mounted, and, concluding that the garrison of Savannah was upon him, he resorted to the bayonet, determined to die sword in hand. Orders to this effect were given to Parker and dispatched to Lieutenant-Colonel Pos ey, commanding in camp, distant a few hundred yards. Captain Parker, seconded by the quarter-guard, advanced upon the foe; and Posey moved with all possible celerity to support the light troops, but did not arrive in time to share in the action . Wayne, participating with his light corps in the surrounding dangers, was now dismounted, his horse being killed; the light troops, nevertheless, continued to press forward, and Parker drove all in his way back to our cannon, where the India n chief with a part of his warriors was attempting to turn our guns to his aid. Here Guristersigo renewed the conflict, and fought gallantly; but the rifle and tomahawk are unavailing when confronted by the bayonet in close quarters. We soon rec overed our artillery, and Guristersigo, fighting bravely, was killed. Seventeen of the warriors and his white guides fell by his side, and the rest fled.

The Battle account through Leutenant Colonel Thomas Posey: "The whole of the troops had for several weeks been doing hard duty, every night lying down in their rank with clothes and accoutrements on, and their arms by their sides, and almost wor n out with fatigue in watching and loss of rest, in constant expectation that the British would either come out of Savannah in force for action, or that we might have an opportunity of falling in with foraging parties. When the attack was made , it was with such fury and violence, at a dead time of the night when the men were in profound sleep (except the guards), with yelling and the use of their tomahawks, spears, scalping-knives, and guns, that our men were thrown into disorder. Wa yne and Posey had thrown their cloaks about them and lay close to each other. The alarm soon roused them, and they had proceeded but a few steps hen Capt. Parker met Colonel. Posey, and informing him that the suddenness of the attack had confuse d his men, wished to know if the colonel had any particular orders. Posey immediately ordered that the Light Infantry should be rallied behind the nearby house, and his exertions, united with Parker's, in a short space of time collected the men . Posey then placed himself with Parker at their head, and ordered a charge through the enemy to the regiment; the charge was made with celerity and firmness; through the conflict was severe, many of the Indians falling by the force of the bayon et.

One or more of the enemy fell by Posey's own arm, and unfortunately for Sgt. Thompson of Parker's Light Infantry (who, contrary to orders had taken off his coat and tied up his head with a handkerchief who manfully engaged and had immediately ne xt to Posey fired at an Indian), Posey took him, from his appearance with his coat off and his head tied up, for an Indian and thrust his sword through his body and laid him at his feet. But he greatly lamented the circumstance when he visited t he hospital the next morning, and learned from the brave but incautious sergeant the particulars of his wounds. General Wayne with the calvary followed by Posey, who had filed off to the right to gain his regiment, which he had met on its marc h to the scene of action, and placing himself at the head, charged immediately upon the rear of the enemy and put them to flight. General Wayne filed off to the left, where he fell in with a considerable body of Indians, and compelled them to re treat after a severe conflict. Thus, with the untied force and much bravery of both officers and soldiers, the whole of the Indians were defeated and routed." Chief Guristersigo was killed by bayonet. Corporal William Rhodes was once again a cas ualty of war and was one of Parker's Light Infantry men wounded that night. In October of 1782 Posey's regiment marched home to Virginia in. On about July 3rd 1783, William was discharged at Richmond, Virginia after serving for nearly eight year s. His tour of duty had taken him north to New York and as far south as Georgia.

A month after his discharge William was issued a land bounty warrant from the state Virginia which entitled him to four hundred sixteen & two-thirds acres of land in Kentucky. About a year later he was living Hampshire County [West] Virginia. W illiam wasn't the only Rhodes living in Hampshire County at that time, Thomas also veteran of the war, along with a John Rhodes. The three where living in the same tax district of the county, and they may have been related to William.

William Rhodes married Susannah ________ not a long after the war, possibly in Hampshire County. Susannah was born between 1766 and 1770. William and Susannah where living in Mason County, Kentucky by 1790. William, Susannah, and their family m ay have moved to Ohio in about 1800. On December 31, 1804, while William was living in Greene County Ohio, he made his first payment on 160-acre plot of land just south of present day Urbana, Ohio. In the year 1816 William received a pension fo r the wounds he received during the Revolution; this was in arrears dating back to 1814, when he possibly applied for the pension. In 1823 William received 100 acres of land from the US government for his service during the Revolution. William R hodes died August 22, 1825 in Urbana Ohio, and was buried on the 22rd of August with full military honors.

From the newspaper "THE OHIOAN", Urbana, OH, Thursday, August,25 1825: the obituary of William Rhodes.
On morning of the 22d inst. after a lingering illness, William Rhodes, in the 86th year of age; leaving a wife and a large number of relations and friends to lament his loss. Mr. Rhodes was a soldier of the Virginia line on the Continental estab lishment-through the whole of the Revolutionary War. He was a man, in early life, of uncommon athletic powers; and in the course of his services if my memory serves me. (having received the facts from himself,) he received five severe wounds; b y which he was so far disabled, that, for the last 8 or 10 years, he received small pettance from the bounty of his country, which served to smoothe his declining years. His remains were intered in this place on the 23d, with military honors, b y Capt. Ambrozene's company of volunteers, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens and strangers. The following next address was spoken by Gen. Vance, at the time of the interment of Mr. Rhode's body.
--Fellow citizens, and brother soldiers-- You have this day been called upon to pay the last tribute of respect to a departed solder of the Revolutionary Army: one who had not merely the honor of having his name enrolled amongst that band of pat riots and worthis, but one whose blood crimsoned the snows of Trenton, the fields of Princeton, and the battlements of Stony Point. Venerable man! Why didst thou not pay the debt of nature on the walls of York-Town, where the measure of thy glor y was complete, and whence thy name would have have been, by faithful history handed down to posterity, as one of the martyrs whose lives were offered us for the liberties of their country! Yes, there thou wouldst have had the sympathetic tear o f your beloved commander, the Father of his country, to have smoothed thy passage to the Eternal World! But why compain? Are not thy service deeplytengraven on the hearts of posterity? And notwithstanding thy mortal remains shall inhabit the col d confines of that vaulted clay, yet thy name shall live in the hearts of thy countrymen, a mausoleum that will be more lasting than monumental brass. Under our present feeling, must we not with the poet exclaim.--


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In death's terrific, icy arms,

Lo! the illustrious soldier lies;

He's free from care and war's alarms,

Nor sees our tears nor hears our sighs.

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old is the heart where valor reign'd;

Mute the tonge that joy inspir'd;

Still the arm that conquest gain'd,

And dim the eye that glory fir'd.

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Too mean for him a world like this.

He's landed on that happy shore

Where all the saints partake of bliss,

And heroes meet to part no more.

(Research): BIRTH: MILITARY: OCCUPATION: Revolutionary War Pension File of William Rhodes VA, #S1324, 2nd VA, Continental Line; National Archives.

MILITARY: Wm. Rhodes served in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted as a private Soldier in the 2nd Virginia Regiment of the Continental line at Alexandria, Virginia on Sept. 1 1775. In his tour of duty was as far north as New York and as far so uth as Georgia. William was promoted Corporal in 1779, and was discharged about July 3, 1783 in Richmond, Virginia. (Pension file #S1324, Revolutionary War service record of William Rhodes, Pvt./Corp., 2nd Va. and William Rhodes, Corp., Va. Ba ttalion. (see William Rhoades/Rhodes, Pvt./Corp. 1 & 10 Va.) THE SINEWS OF INDEPENDENCE, by Lesser, Charles H., Ed., University of Chicago Press, 1976

COURT: CHILDREN: SPOUSE: James Dallas admr. of Wm. Rhodes vs. Susan Rhodes widow; Champaign County, OH Common Pleas Court; March Term 1830, Record Book 11; p. 71-76

OBITUARY: MILITARY: of William Rhodes; THE OHIOAN; Urbana OH; Thursday, August, 25 1825; on microfilm, Urbana Public Library, Urbana OH.

TIME LINE OF PAPERS ON WILLIAM RHODES
FAIRFAX County VA. COURTS ORDERS: 1772, page 236, Jul. 20, 1773, Rhodes, William plt. vs. John Alexander Jur, Trespass, Suit abates by sheriff's return.

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine XI, page 95: Virginia Gazette, 1777, Died, Capt. Thomas Tebbs, of the 2d Regiment Jan. 17. See below.


"THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, COLLECTIONS, 1915, REVOLUTIONARY MUSTER ROLLS", Vol. II, 1775-1783, New York, Printed for the Society, 1916, pages 594-95: Virginia Line-2nd Regiment, Captain Thomas Tebbs' Company, January and February.y Roll of the Decd. Capt. Thomas Company from the 28th January to the 28th February 1777: William Rhodes, Private, Pay Due in Dollars: 6 2/3
"RECORDS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR", by W. T. R. Saffell, 3d ed., Baltimore, 1894: Page 270-275, Name and rank of . . .Officers and Privates of Col. Alexander Spottswood's 2d Virginia Regiment, as it stood from January to June, 1777. Page,y No. 4 as it stood April 30,1777. Capt. Thomas Tebbs . . . Privates . . . William Rhodes . . .

FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES: "COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN THE AMERICAN ARMY DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR", microfilm M881,"R", William Rhodes, 2nd Virginia Regiment , Private/Corporal:
1 May to 1 June, 1777, Pvt. Will Rhodes, 2nd Virginia Regiment of Foot commanded by Col. Alexander Spottswood
June, 1777, Pvt. Will Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
July, 1777, Pvt. Will Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Aug., 1777, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Sept.,1777, Pvt. Will Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Oct., 1777, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., of the 2nd Va. Reg't, commanded by Col. Christian Febiger, Pay due $6 2/3.
Dec. 31, 1777, Pvt. Will Rhodes, Muster Roll of Capt. John Harrison Company, 2nd Va. Reg't commanded by Col. Christian Febiger, enlisted for the term of war.
Dec., 1777, Pvt. William Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Jan., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Feb. 16, 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, of the 2nd Va. Reg't, commanded by Col. Christian Febiger for the month's extraordinary pay given pay Congress, Pay due $6 2/3.
Feb., 1778, Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, Pvt. Pay due $6 2/3.
Mar., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Apr., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
May, 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Jun., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Jul., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Aug., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Sept.,1778, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay due $6 2/3.
Not dated - made agreeable to Gen. order of Sept. 8, 1778, William Rhodes, Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, of the 2nd Va. Reg't, commanded by Christian Febiger (Col.) accounting for every Man, Whether in the Field, on Command, or in Hospitaoiing the Time they now have to serve. Time to serve: War. Remarks: In the Light Infantry.
Oct., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Nov., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Dec., 1778, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Jan., 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Feb., 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Mar., 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Apr., 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due 6 2/3.
May, 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
June, 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Jul., 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3.
Aug., 1779, Pvt. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Co., 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $6 2/3, plus $10 for subsistence from the 8th.
Sept. 6,1779, [at] The Clove (New York), Pvt. William Rhodes, Muster Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, term of enlistment: War.
Sept.,1779, William Rhodes was promoted to Corporal, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons County, 2nd Va. Reg't, amount due $7 1/3 plus $10 subsistence.
Oct., 1779, Corp. Wm Rhodes, Pay Roll of Capt. Harrisons Company, 2nd Va. Reg't, Pay due $7 1/3, plus $17 1/3 for subsistence.
From the National Archives "Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War", microfilm M881, William Rhodes, Corporal, Virginia Battalion, Composed of Companies of various Reg'ts. Also see eords of William Rhoades/Rhodes, Pvt./Corp. of the 1st & 10th Va. Regt. to find these records:
Jan. 1, to 1 April, 1782, William Rhodes, Corp., Va. Battalion, Company Muster Roll [of] Capt. Alexander Parker's Light Infantry Company of Lieut. Col. Thomas Posey's detachment of Virginia Troop, term of enlistment War.
1 April till 1 Sept., 1782, dated Sept. 1782, William Rhodes, Corpl., Va. Battalion's Company of Light Inf. belonging to a detachment of the Virginia Line commanded by Lieut. Col. Thomas Posey, Muster Roll, term of enlistment: War, Wounded P .s company was designated at various time as Light Infantry and Captain Alexander Parker's Company.
From 1 Sept. to Dec. 1, 1782, dated Dec. 11 1782, Va. William Rhodes, Corpl., Battalion, 3d Company of the Virginia detachment commanded by Major Samuel Finley. Muster Roll, term of enlistment War. From Dec. 1782 to May 1 1783, dated May9 ,lliam Rhodes, Corpl., Va. Battalion, 3d Company of the Virginia detachment commanded by Major Samuel Finley. Muster Roll, term of enlistment War, on Command Forage Yard. This company was designated at various times as the 3d Company, an d a Company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment.
FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Feb. March and April 1783, William Rhodes, Corpl., name appears in Lieut. Charles Stockley's Book of Accounts of payments made by him "TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE VIRGINIA LINE ON ACCOUNT OF PAY FOR THE OFFICER2 & 1783, & FOR THE MEN FOR THE YEAR 1783." The name is borne under the following heading: "CASH PAID THE NONCOMMISSION OFFICERS & PRIVATES OF THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE OF ARTILLERY & INFANTRY, WITH THE SUMS ANNEXED FOR FEBRUARY, MARC H & APRIL 1783" (Revolutionary War) Amount paid $22
From the VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, ARCHIVES DIV.: On Land Office Military Certificate #1524: "I Do Certify, That William Rhoads is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a Corporal of the Continental line, enlisted for the war and has see nars." (signed) Benj Harrison ...Aug. 7th 1783
FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES: a book under the following: "A List of Soldiers of the Virginia Line Continental Establishment who have received Certificates for the balance of there full pay Agreeable to an Act of Assembly passed November Sessn ,ol. 176; page 256; Rhodes William, Corpl., Aug. 7, 1783, Sum. 124-11-9 (note: the date is same as when he received his Virginia Military Land Warrant).
From The Land Office, Secretary of State, The Capitol, Frankfort Ky. 40601: Old Ky. Survey #3450, Land Office Military Warrant No. 1524..., for William Rhoads...the Quantity of four Hundred Sixteen & 2/3 Acres of Land.... (On the reverse sig t0th 1784,...to John Forman... (signed) William Rhodes (signature matches others on his pension, etc.)
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS, VOL. I, VIRGINIA, by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, 1936: Page 490, Virginia Military Land Warrants, #1524 Rhodes, William (served 7 years), Rank: Corp., Service: War.

"REGISTER OF THE CERTIFICATES", Vol. 4, by John Pierce, Printed by Francis Childs, New York, 1786, (from The Library of Congress) L. C. call no. E255.V48, Rare Book Collection:
Page 15, Cert. No. 79541 L, 8 Aug. 1784, William Rhodes, When became due Amt. bro't for. 1 Jan. 1783, $ 88.
Page 19, Cert. No. 79965 H, 11 Aug. 1784, William Rhodes, When become due Amt. bro't for. 15 Nov. 1783, $127.60

Hampshire County, [West] Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, Allen County Library, Fort Wayne IN. William Rhodes listed in 1784, 1785, and in 1786 as William Rhoden

MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY TAX LISTS, (Allen County Library, Fort Wayne IN, Microfilm) 1790-1799, Rodes/Rhodes, William ( Taxed for 69 acres of land in 1793-99, but no land record found on Wm in Mason County KY.)

MASON COUNTY KENTUCKY TAXPAYERS 1790-1799 by T.L.C. Genealogy P.O. Box 403369 Miami Beach, FL 33140-1369 Rhodes: Jacob 1796 William 1795 William 1796 William 1797 Roades: William 1795 Roads Jacob 1794 William 1794 William 1799

History of Greene County, Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions By Michael A. Broadstone Published by B.F. Bowen, 1918 Page 196, old setters of 1803, William Rhodes

FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, RECORD GROUP No. 49: Credit Receipt #2659, Cincinnati, Ohio, 31 December 1804, Received of Wm Rhoades of Greene County the sum of $16.20 to being the one twentieth part of the purchase money of N. E. qr. of Sec.2 np. 5, of Range 11, 161 20/100 acres...Credit Prior Final Certificate #942 for William Rhoods (Rhodes) of Greene County OH. Land Patented 10th Oct. 1816, with total amount paid $380.83.


CHAMPAIGN County OH. MINUTE BOOK VI 1805-08, the Term September 1806, William is a Juror on page 16 & 17.

FROM CHAMPAIGN COUNTY OHIO PROBATE COURT RECORDS: an IOU was found in his estate papers for $13.31, dated 16th day of March 1813, and signed by William Rhodes.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PRIVATE CLAIMS, Vol. III, P-Z (Allen County Library, Fort Wayne IN, 973 Un3da V.3 P-Z), Genealogical Publishing County Inc., Baltimore, 1970: List of private claims presented to the House of Representatives of the United sm the 1st to the 31st Congress, inclusive -- William Rhodes....Nature object of the claim, Pension...14th Congress, 1st Session...How brought before the House of Reps., House bill...Page of journal, 622...To what committee of the House refe rred, Whole House...No. or date of the report, Apr. 23, 1816...

FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, RECORD OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECORD GROUP 233: HR 14-B1, HR 172 (April 30, 1816) House of Reps. Pension bill No. 172, page 11, William Rhodes at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on td fovember, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LAND AND MANAGEMENT, EASTERN STATES: (Land Patent) Cincinnati Land Office, land entry #942, " . . . William Rhoods of Greene County . . . 10 October 1816".

From the NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Transcribed from Revolutionary War pension #1324 of William Rhodes, 15 Apr 1818: "William Rhodes aged Seventythree years deposeth and saith, that sometime about the first day of Sept. in the year of our Lord one tod seven hundred and seventyfive he enlisted as a private soldier into the first Company of Regular troops in the second Regiment of the Virginia line of Continental troops said Company at the time of this deponents enlisted was commanded by Cap t. George Johnson, and said Regiment by Colonel William Woolford-this deponent enlisted as aforesaid for the term of one year, and served as a private soldier in said Company during the full space of said year. This deponent was regularly discha rged at the end of said year, and immediately enlisted into the same Company again, then commanded by Thomas Tibbs, for three years. The deponent served as a private soldier in said Company under said Captain Tibbs about six months when said Ca pt. Tibbs died and Capt. Peyton Harrison succeeded to the command of said Company and this deponent served as a private soldier under said Capt. Harrison in said Company in the Continental service, for two years or upwards. This deponent then e nlisted into the same Company under the command of Capt. Harrison aforesaid, during the war. This deponent performed his duty as a private soldier in the aforesaid Company to the command of which Capt. Thomas Catlett afterwards succeeded and wa s killed, and then the Company was commanded by Capt. Alexander Parker, till the close of the Revolutionary War, and this deponent was discharged from said Company at Richmond in Virginia at the close of the war aforesaid. The Regiment to whic h said company then belonged, was commanded by Colonel Posey." "All the discharged which this deponent received, as a soldier in the war aforesaid, have been lost by accident or destroyed by time. This deponent has been a Citizen of the Unite d States ever since the Revolution and is now a Resident Citizen of the County of Champaign in the State of Ohio. This deponent being far removed from the place of his nativity, is unable to produce any further evidence of his services aforesai d, than his own affidavit and the affidavit of James Hopkins herewith enclosed. This deponent now draws a pension of fortyfive dollars a year from the United States, for wounds which he received while a soldier in the Revolutionary War. This d eponent is in reduced and indigentcircumstances, and needs the assistance of his Country for support."
Subscribed and sworn to this 15th of April 1818 William Rhodes

"LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITTING A REPORT OF THE NAME, RANK, AND LINE, OF EVERY PERSON PLACED ON THE PENSION LIST, IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT OF 18TH MARCH, 1818, &C.", January 20, 1820, Reprinted Southern Book Company, 1955. pa ,liam Rhodes, private, Virginia.

1820 census, Roll #86 OH, Champaign County, page 434 (in the Allen County IN Lib.): William Rhodes | 1-male 10-15 | 2-male 16-25 | 1-male 45-up | 1female 10-15 | 1 female 16-25 | 1 female 45-up | 3 in Agriculture.

From the NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Transcribed from Revolutionary War pension #1324 of William Rhodes, 20 Jul 1820: The state of Ohio Champaign county Supreme court of the term July 1820
On the 20th day of July 1820 personally appeared in Open court Wm. Rhodes aged Seventy five years, resident of the county of Champaign aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revu yar as follows, to wit:
He enlisted in the army of the United States for the term of one year at Alexandria in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain George Johnston belonging to the second Regiment commanded by Colonel William Woodford and therr dut the time of his Aforesaid Enlistment. He was honorably discharged from service at Williamsburgh in the state of Virginia that he again immediately enlisted in the army of the United States at Williamburgh aforesaid for the term of durin g the War then existing between the United States and Great Britain in the company commanded by Captain Peyton Harrison belonging to the second Virginia Regiment then commanded by Colonel Alexander Spotswood and that he faithfully served out th e term of his aforesaid Enlistment when he was honorably discharged from Service at Richmond in the State of Virginia that on the 15th day of April 1818 he made an application in order to a pension under the act of the 18th March 1818 and has si nce Rec'd a certificate of his being inscribed on the Pension list file of the Ohio agency which said ------ bears date 13th July 1819 and Numbered 13:030.
And I the said William Rhodes do Solemnly Swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not Since that time by gift, Sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof in ory so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War repaid on the 18th day of Marc h 1818 and that I have not nor has any persons in trust for me any property or Securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other then what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me Subscribed--and I do further Swe ar that my occupation in life is a laboring farmer and that in consequence of advanced age in life I am unable to work at all and my family consists of a wife and three children one aged 11 years one 14 years and one aged 17 years
Schedule of Property owned by Wm. Rhodes 80 acres of land of the value of $560.00 2 Horses value___________________ 30.00 4 Head cattle value_______________ 40.00 9 Head Hogs_____________________ 20.00 5 sheep value__________________0 2 B salue_____________________ 20.00 A few articles of household furniture of the value___________ 10.00 Total amount of Property contained in Schedule______________________$690.00 Sworn and Subscribed in 13.030 William Rhodes Open c ourt July 20th 1820 July 19
From the NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Wm Rhodes, Land Warrant application no. 1026, "I William Rhodes aged seventy seven....the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five I enlisted in the army of the Revolution,....and served in the company coy Captain George Johnson and in the regiment No. 2 of the Virginia Line under command of Colonel William Woodford of the Virginia Line;....in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, I was regularly discharged from the first regiment, commanded b y Colonel Thomas Posey....11th day of January 1822"

"FEDERAL LAND SERIES, VOL. 2, 1799-1835, FEDERAL BOUNTY-LAND WARRANTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION", by Clifford Neal Smith, American Library Association, Chicago 1973. 1307 4 Feb. 1823 B/1/038 Registered by & for: William Rhodes,a l - 8 9 2 11 Based on the following Army land warrant: Issued to Rhodes, William, Pvt. No. 1026, 100 Acres (Note: [Sent] to him, Urbana, Ohio.)

"LIST OF REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS WHO LIVED IN OHIO", by William Holden,: Rhodes, William... Champaign County... rank Corporal... 4th U. S. Infantry...When placed on pension roll: Dec. 24 1821... Under Act of Congress: Apr. 30, 1816.: Mar.: May 1, 1820.

"PENSIONERS OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR STRUCK OF THE ROLL", Genealogical Pub. County, 1969, page 97: William Rhodes - Acts under which restored: Invalid - Remarks: Restored under 3d section act May 1, 1820. Obituary in the newspaper "THE OHIOAN",, Thursday, August,

25 1825:

On morning of the 22d inst. after a lingering illness, William Rhodes, in the 86th year of age; leaving a wife and a large number of relations and friends to lament his loss. Mr. Rhodes was a soldier of the Virginia line on the Continental esnt-through the whole of the Revolutionary War. He was a man, in early life, of uncommon athletic powers; and in the course of his services if my memory serves me. (having received the facts from himself,) he received five severe wounds; by w hich he was so far disabled, that, for the last 8 or 10 years, he received small pettance from the bounty of his country, which served to smoothe his declining years. His remains were intered in this place on the 23d, with military honors, by C apt. Ambrozene's company of volunteers, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens and strangers. The following next address was spoken by Gen. Vance, at the time of the interment of Mr. Rhode's body. --Fellow citizens, and brother soldie rs--
You have this day been called upon to pay the last tribute of respect to a departed solder of the Revolutionary Army: one who had not merely the honor of having his name enrolled amongst that band of patriots and worthis, but one whose bloodd the snows of Trenton, the fields of Princeton, and the battlements of Stony Point.
Venerable man! Why didst thou not pay the debt of nature on the walls of York-Town, where the measure of thy glory was complete, and whence thy name would have have been, by faithful history handed down to posterity, as one of the martyrs ws were offered us for the liberties of their country! Yes, there thou wouldst have had the sympathetic tear of your beloved commander, the Father of his country, to have smoothed thy passage to the Eternal World! But why compain? Are not thy s ervice deeply engraven on the hearts of posterity? And notwithstanding thy mortal remains shall inhabit the cold confines of that vaulted clay, yet thy name shall live in the hearts of thy countrymen, a mausoleum that will be more lasting tha n monumental brass. Under our present feeling, must we not with the poet exclaim.--

In death's terrific, icy arms, Lo! the illustrious soldier lies; He's free from care and war's alarms, Nor sees our tears nor hears our sighs.

Cold is the heart where valor reign'd; Mute the tonge [tongue] that joy inspir'd; Still the arm that conquest gain'd, And dim the eye that glory fir'd.

Too mean for him a world like this. He's landed on that happy shore Where all the saints partake of bliss, And heroes meet to part no more.

"THE PENSION ROLL OF 1835, Volume IV, THE MID-WESTERN STATES", Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968, page 514: "Name & rank of Pensioner William Rhodes, Corporal., Statement, &c. of Champaign county Ohio...Died Aug. 22, 1825"

PUBLIC RECORDS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO CHANCERY RECORDS OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Record Book 11, Page 71 Filed 22 August 1828 James Dallas, Administrator of William Rhodes Vs Susan Rhodes, widow Previous to the filing of this suit a juf $1600 had been granted against William Rhodes, Joseph Pence, John Fitzpatrick, and James Paxton, as endorsers of John Frizzle and Randall Largent, in the favor of William Fisher and William Ward. Therefore, $400 may be liable against Willia m Rhodes' estate. William died owning 140 1/3 acres of the north-east quarter of Section 32 Township 5 Range 11 (Urbana Tp.); all of the quarter except for 20 acres which had been sold previously to Joseph Clevinger. The heirs of William Rhode s were: Susan Rhodes, widow; Sanford Rhodes and William Rhodes, who did not live in Ohio; James Rhodes deceased left the following heirs: Samuel Rhodes, John Rhodes and James Rhodes, along with minors who did not live in Ohio and Israel Hamilto n was appointed guardian ad litem; Isaac Rhodes who did not live in Ohio; Joseph H. Rhodes; Nancy, wife of W. Largent; Polly, wife of John Wallace; Elizabeth Rhodes; Susan, wife of John King; and the heirs of John Rhodes deceased of Logan County , Ohio: Nelson Rhodes, James Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes (John H. James was appointed guardian ad litem for John's heirs). The court appointed appraisers, William H. Fyffe, William Glenn and Lewis Long, valued the estate on 3 October 1829 at $5.5 0 an acre, subject to the dower of 32 acres with the house and another 8 acres (total 40 acres). The appraisal was sworn before Matthew Magrew, Mayor of Urbana. On 22 December 1829 Hugh McDonald purchased the land for $812.68 3/4.

"THE HISTORY OF CHAMPAIGN AND LOGAN COUNTIES, FROM THEIR FIRST SETTLEMENT", by Joshua Ahtrim, (Press Printing County, Bellefontaine, Ohio, 1872) on page 70 and 136 William is mentioned as a early settler of Champaign County OH. On page 2s n a list of electors in the county first election of 1811. "Atlas of Champaign County Ohio", by Starr & Headington, 1874. On page 5, William Rhodes is on a list of electors in the county first election of 1811.
"HISTORY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY", W. H. Beers & County, 1881, page 386, William Rhodes is mentioned as an elector and one of the choices for Urbana Township Supervisor, in the 1811 election. Also on page 407, he is mention as a early settlerf awp. "HISTORY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY OHIO, Vol. I", 1917, B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., page 263, William is mentioned as an elector and one of the choices for Urbana Township Supervisor, in the 1811 election. Also on page 264, he is mention a s a early settler of Urbana Twp.
"CHAMPAIGN COUNTY OHIO 1991" by Champaign County Genealogical Society, Urbana, Ohio. Their is a article about the William Rhodes family by Carl Rhodes.

William married Susannah in 1785-1788 in Hampshire County, Virginia. Susannah was born between 1766 and 1770; died after 20 Oct 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Served in the War of 1812, as a Pvt. in the 1st Regiment (Sutton's)
Ohio Militia.

Family/Spouse: Joann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nancy married William Largent on 17 Oct 1806 in Urbana, Champaign County, OH. William (son of Nelson Largent) was born about 1784 in PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Bellefontaine, Logan County, OH, from about 1822 till his death. He mentioned in "The History of Champaign and Logan Counties, from their first settlemet:" by Joshua Antrim, 1872, page 270, listed as one of Champaign County first electors in 1 811. Also in "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin & County, Historical Publishers", 1880, page 338, "William Scott built a two-story log house...... He there kept the first tavern in town. This he soon sold to John Rhodes, of Urb ana, who kept the first stock of merchandise in Bellefontaine." In the book "History of Champaign County" by Unigraphic Pul., 1881, John Rhodes is mentioned as Urbana township Clerk in 1815. In going over early town records of Urbana, OH, the re is found that John Rhodes was a town Trustee as early as 1816.

Record Book 10 pg 90 Filed Oct 2 1827 Partition
William H Fyffe
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William Glenn, Nelson Rhodes, james Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes
On 22 Mar 1817 William Ward converyed In-lots 6 and 7 and Out-lot 4 in Urbana to Fyffe, Glenn and John Rhodes. John Rhodes died leaving Nelson Rhodes, James Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes as heirs, all of Logan Co and Elisha Tabor was appointed guard ian ad litem. The appraisers were Adam Mosgrove, Edmund B Cavalier and Daniel Helmick, who divided the lots on 9 Feb 1828

Champaign Co, Guardianship & Indentures Vol 1 pg 216 22 April 1833 Israel hamilton gdn of Nelson Rhodes 15yr; james Rhodes 14yrs, children and minor heirs of John Rhodes, dec'd. Surities Samuel Taylor and William Vance.

John married Mary Johnston on 22 Mar 1817 in Champaign County, OH. Mary was born about 1797 in VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Served in the War of 1812 as a Pvt. in Capt. John McCord's County of Ohio Militia, out of Champaign County Oh., and in the 19th Regiment of U.S. infantry. Military records show he was born in Mason County, KY, twenty five when he enlisted at ,o in 1814, was six foot tall, had a fair complexion, black eyes, fair hair, and was a farmer by trade. He witnessed a deed along with Conway Rhodes on 28 May 1823, of his parents, Wm and Susannah Rhodes in Champaign County OH., recorded i n Champaign County Deed book Vol. F pg. 313.
Champaign County OH Common Pleas Court, March Term 1830, Record Book 11, pg. 71-76, "James Dallas admr. of Wm. Rhodes vs Susan Rhodes widow." Lawsuit mentions William Rhodes, and his widow, Susan Rhodes, along with heirs Sanford Rhodes, Will, James Rhodes, Isaac Rhodes, Joseph H. Rhodes, Nancy Largent late Nancy Rhodes wife of William Largent, Polly Wallace late Polly Rhodes wife of John Wallace, Elizabeth Rhodes and Susan King late Susan Rhodeswife of John King, also Nelson Rhode s, James Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes heirs of John Rhodes late of Logan County Decd. plus Samuel, John and James Rhodes heirs of James Rhodes Decd.

History of Johnson County, Indiana, By Elba L. Branigin, Page 235
The first school taught on the present site of Moore's Hill was by Sanford Rhodes, in 1820, at seventy-five cents per quarter for each pupil, which was paid mostly in trade.

"THE EARLY SCHOOLS OF INDIANA: FROM THE PAPERS OF D. D. BANTA? SECOND INSTALMENT." The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History, vol. 2, no. 2, 1906, pp. 81? 88. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27785442. Accessed 15 Sep. 2022.

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Sanford married Elizabeth "Betsey" Hutson on 24 Apr 1811 in Madison County, OH. Elizabeth (daughter of Skinner Hutson and Jane Kelso) was born in 1790; died in 1819. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sanford married Nancy Smith on 29 Aug 1820 in Wayne County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sanford married Elizabeth Shields on 2 Jul 1824 in Jennings County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Served in the War of 1812, as a Pvt., in the 1st Regiment (Sutton's) Ohio Militia and in the 19th Regiment of U. S. Infantry. I have found no record that states Conway was a child of Wm Rhodes, but Conway's enlistment record (enlisted at Ur, ,814) states he was born in Mason County, KY. about 1791. William was the only Rhodes living in the County in that years 1790/92. He served in the War of 1812 in the same Regiment and Company as Sanford b. ca. 1789, and William Rhodes b . ca. 1785/1795, who I believe were brothers to Conway. Conway could also be Wm's son James. Conway witnessed a deed of his parents(?) with brother(?) Sanford Rhodes on the 28 May 1823, recorded in Champaign County Deed Book., Vol. F, page. 31 3. In Champaign County, OH. Nov. 25, 1825 Conway purchased items from the estate of William Rhodes decd.

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Mary married John Wallace on 23 Dec 1819 in Champaign County, OH. John (son of Michael Wallace and Agnes Shannon) was born about 1798. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Susannah married John King on 8 Jul 1824 in Champaign County, OH. John was born about 1798 in MD; died on 25 Dec 1880 in German Twp., Clark, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph and Sarah (Kite) Rhodes family moved from Urbana in Champaign County Ohio to Hamilton County IN, in about 1835, along with Sarah's father Michael Kite. In the following year they relocated to Boone County near the village of Thornto .it out of the eleven known children of Joseph and Sarah were born there. On March 5, 1852 Joseph H. (Rodes) purchased a farm in Marshall County, IN, for $1,100.00 (Marshall County Deed Book H, page. 509). November of that year he bough t swamp land from the state of Indiana at a $1.25 per acre. In present day Walnut Twp. of Marshall County, IN, Joseph laid out the village of Fremont, on Nov. 6 1856. He named it in honor of Col. John C. Fremont who was voted that day as th e Republican candidate for President. Joseph laid the village of Fremont out along side the community of Sidney. The following year Joseph opened a small grocery store. In 1859 Joseph, along with seventeen others voted to join the two communi ties of Fremont and Sidney into the town of Argos. :Plymouth Pilot-News, Plymouth, Marshall County IN, Nov. 9, 1979 (from the Marshall County Historical Soc., Plymouth IN); Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana, McDonald, VOL. 1 , page. 119, 120); History of Indiana, Special Edition for Marshall County, Vol. II, Brant, Fuller & County, 1890, page. 65, 66; History of Marshall County, Indiana, 1836 to 1880, by Daniel McDonald, 1881, page. 145, 146; The Story of Marshall C ounty, page. 44. To this day plat maps of Argos bear the name of Joseph Rhodes. Birth and death date from, Marshall County, Ind., Cemeteries Vol. 2, by Wendel C. and Jean C. Tombaugh, page. 120.

Joseph married Sarah Kite on 25 Sep 1831 in Urbana, Champaign County, OH. Sarah (daughter of Michael Kite and Catherine Dofflemyer) was born in 1811 in Rockingham County, VA; died on 3 Dec 1874 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James married Mary Ann Edwards on 27 Oct 1864 in Noble County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the Largent book by Joanne Eustice, she says: "Eli -- probably the son of William Largent and Nancy Rhodes -----" Then adds that there was a William Largent living in the same household as Eli and Sarah in the 1850 census, but it is not pnthis William was the father of Eli. As for this author, Carl Rhodes, I believe Eli is the son of William Largent and Nancy Rhodes.

Eli married Sarah Largent on 2 Oct 1834 in Montgomery Co, IN. Sarah was born about 1816 in Champaign Co, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Record Book 10 pg 90 Filed Oct 2 1827 Partition
William H Fyffe
vs
William Glenn, Nelson Rhodes, james Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes
On 22 Mar 1817 William Ward converyed In-lots 6 and 7 and Out-lot 4 in Urbana to Fyffe, Glenn and John Rhodes. John Rhodes died leaving Nelson Rhodes, James Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes as heirs, all of Logan Co and Elisha Tabor was appointed guard ian ad litem. The appraisers were Adam Mosgrove, Edmund B Cavalier and Daniel Helmick, who divided the lots on 9 Feb 1828

Champaign Co, Guardianship & Indentures Vol 1 pg 216 22 April 1833 Israel hamilton gdn of Nelson Rhodes 15yr; james Rhodes 14yrs, children and minor heirs of John Rhodes, dec'd. Surities Samuel Taylor and William Vance.

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Record Book 10 pg 90 Filed Oct 2 1827 Partition
William H Fyffe
vs
William Glenn, Nelson Rhodes, james Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes
On 22 Mar 1817 William Ward converyed In-lots 6 and 7 and Out-lot 4 in Urbana to Fyffe, Glenn and John Rhodes. John Rhodes died leaving Nelson Rhodes, James Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes as heirs, all of Logan Co and Elisha Tabor was appointed guard ian ad litem. The appraisers were Adam Mosgrove, Edmund B Cavalier and Daniel Helmick, who divided the lots on 9 Feb 1828

Champaign Co, Guardianship & Indentures Vol 1 pg 216 22 April 1833 Israel hamilton gdn of Nelson Rhodes 15yr; james Rhodes 14yrs, children and minor heirs of John Rhodes, dec'd. Surities Samuel Taylor and William Vance.

Nelson married Sarah Jane Converse on 12 Oct 1841 in Champaign County, OH. Sarah was born about 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Record Book 10 pg 90 Filed Oct 2 1827 Partition
William H Fyffe
vs
William Glenn, Nelson Rhodes, james Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes
On 22 Mar 1817 William Ward converyed In-lots 6 and 7 and Out-lot 4 in Urbana to Fyffe, Glenn and John Rhodes. John Rhodes died leaving Nelson Rhodes, James Rhodes and Minerva Rhodes as heirs, all of Logan Co and Elisha Tabor was appointed guard ian ad litem. The appraisers were Adam Mosgrove, Edmund B Cavalier and Daniel Helmick, who divided the lots on 9 Feb 1828

Champaign Co, Guardianship & Indentures Vol 1 pg 216 22 April 1833 Israel hamilton gdn of Nelson Rhodes 15yr; james Rhodes 14yrs, children and minor heirs of John Rhodes, dec'd. Surities Samuel Taylor and William Vance.

Notes:

1850 United States Federal Census
about Mary Wallace
Name: Mary Wallace
Age: 50
Estimated birth year: abt 1800
Birth Place: Kentucky
Gender: Female
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Boone, Indiana
Family Number: 446
Household Members:
Name Age
John Wallace 52
Mary Wallace 50
Isaac Wallace 23

1860 United States Federal Census
about Isaac Wallace
Name: Isaac Wallace
Age in 1860: 34
Birth Year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Walnut, Marshall, Indiana
Gender: Male
Post Office: Argos
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac Wallace 34
Isabel Wallace 34
Mary Wallace 6
Perry Wallace 4
Susannah Wallace 2
John Wallace 7/121880 United States Federal Census
about Isaac R. Wallace
Name: Isaac R. Wallace
Home in 1880: Lincoln, Berrien, Michigan
Age: 53
Estimated birth year: abt 1827
Birthplace: Ohio
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's name: Isabel E.
Father's birthplace: Virginia
Mother's birthplace: Kentucky
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Laborer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Cannot read/write:

Blind:

Deaf and dumb:

Otherwise disabled:

Idiotic or insane:

Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac R. Wallace 53
Isabel E. Wallace 43
Susan Wallace 22
Flora May Wallace 15
Alice Wallace 12
Ida Wallace 8

Isaac married Isabella Emily Snyder on 5 May 1853 in Marshall Co, IN. Isabella (daughter of Adam D. Snyder and Anna Elizabeth Sparks) was born on 26 Aug 1836 in Lapaz, Marshall County, IN; died on 7 May 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1850 Census, Ohio, German twsp., Clark County, Page 30B, Dwelling 405, has Mary living with her parents, age 22.
John King 52 MD, shoemaker, Susan 44 OH, Mary 22 OH, Elizabeth 20, James 19, William 17, Oliver 14, Matthew 12, Lutetia 10, Thomas 8, Sarah J. 6, Harriet 4


OBITUARY - West Liberty Banner, dtg. Thursday January 4, 1894, West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio.

DEATH - MARY E. KING was born August 17, 1826, near Tremont, Ohio, and died at her home near West Liberty, Dec. 27, 1893, aged 67 years, 4 months and 10 days.
She united with the M.E. church in 1845, being a member for nearly forty-nine years. She was married to SAMUEL SOWER, Jan. 2, 1851, at Tremont. Of this union, nine children were born, eight sons and one daughter. The husband and four soner world, leaving four sons and the daughter, and a large number of friends and relatives to sincerely mourn her death.
Funeral services were conducted at South Union church by Rev. Swank, on Friday, and the body was laid to rest in Fairview Cemetery.

Mary married Samuel Sower on 2 Jan 1851 in Tremont, Ohio. Samuel was born on 31 Jan 1826 in Tremont, Clark County, Ohio; died on 29 Sep 1891 in West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio; was buried in West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Served in the Civil War in County H, of the 59th Regiment of Indiana
Volunteers. He was drafted Jan. 5, 1865 at Laporte Indiana. Military
record state he was drafted he was age 31, had gray eyes, brown hair
was 5 ft. 9 3/4 in. tall he had a fair complexion. It stated on his
discharge he was born in Champaign County OH and was a farmer by trade.
He got Musterd out on July 17 1865 ( this infomation obtained from
the Indaina State Archives). An obit. in the Plymouth Tribune,
(Plymouth, Marshall County IN) Oct. 13 1910

Lemuel married Elizabeth Williams on 5 Mar 1854 in Marshall County, IN. Elizabeth (daughter of Merril Williams and Sarah Roberts) was born on 4 Sep 1833 in IN; died on 10 Dec 1891 in Plymouth, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Harriet Bradly. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jason D. Rhodes was born on 3 May 1834 in Urbana, Champaign County, OH. He died on 7 Jul 1909 in Kokomo, Howard County, IN. He was buried in Crown Point Cem., Kokomo, Howard County, IN. Served in the Civil War in Company F of the 89 Regimen t of Indiana
Volunteers. He enlisted at Howard County, IN, Aug 15, 1862, his military
recorded states he was at the age of 26 at time of enlistment. His
discharge said he had gray eyes, light hair, dark complexion, was
farmer by trade and was born in OH. He was Mustered out of service at
Mobile Ala. July 19 1865 (information from the Indiana State Archives).
Birth & Death date from his death cert., Kokomo-Howard County Heath
Department, Book CH-15-D Pg. 34. Obit. in the Kokomo Morning Dispatch
newspaper (Kokomo, IN) Thursday July 8, 1909, page 1. According to
obit Jason had ten children and lived at 1310 No. Philips St., Kokomo,
IN, at the time of his death. Also the Kokomo Tribune, July 7, 1909,
pg. 1, c.5

Jason married Angeline Tow on 5 Sep 1861 in Howard County, Indiana. Angeline (daughter of William Tow and Elizabeth Young) was born in Nov 1847 in New London, Indiana; died on 17 Jan 1917 in Culver, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Elias Hoover on 3 Jun 1855 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Basil Bowell on 10 Jul 1867 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. Basil was born on 18 Jun 1825; died on 30 Mar 1914 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

! Obit. in the Argos Reflecror, (Argos, Marshall County, IN) Thursday,
May 26, 1904

Elizabeth married William H. Nichols on 20 May 1858 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Curtis on 13 Apr 1875 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. James was born in Oct 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Served in the Civil War in County C, 48 Indiana Volunteers, the same as
his brother Joseph. He enlisted Jan. 1, 1862 at Marshall Co. IN, by
Capt. Crumpacker at the age of 21. His dischage said he had black
eyes, black hair, light complexion and was born in Boone Co., IN. He
was discharged Jan. 2, 1864 at Louisville, KY (information from the
Indaina State Archives). He also reseved a pension for being wounded
during the war. Obit. in the Argos Reflector (Argos, Marshall CountyIN)
March 12, 1883.

George married Mahala Cox on 14 Mar 1866 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. Mahala was born on 20 Dec 1840 in IN; died on 27 Apr 1903 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Served in the Civil War. Joseph R. Rhodes served in County C, 48th
Indiana, the same company that his brother George was in. According
to his dicharge he enlisted Jan. 15, 1862 in Marshall County IN, at the
age of 19 yrs. Also he was 5' 7 1/2" tall, had dark eyes, light hair
and complexion, and stated he was born in Boone County IN (information
from the Indiana State Archives). According to his obit. in the
Bourbon Advance (Bourbon, Marshall County, IN) Apr. 18, 1906, Joseph R.
Rhodes was apparently murdered.

Joseph married Margaret A. Cox on 27 Apr 1869 in Marshall County, IN. Margaret (daughter of William Cox and Margaret Fox) was born on 20 Jul 1852; died on 4 Jun 1925 in Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A Civil War veteran of Company D, 73rd Indiana Infantry & Company E, 29th Indiana Infantry.

Michael enlisted August 7, 1862, at Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana, to serve three years in the 73rd Indiana Infantry. On August 16, 1862, he received $25.00 of his $100.00 enlistment bounty and was mustered into Federal service with Compan y D at South Bend, Indiana. At that time he was listed as a 17 years old, 5'9" tall farmer, with brown hair, black eyes and a dark complexion, born in Boone County, Indiana.
On the muster roll of Nov./Dec., 1862, it was noted that Michael was absent in Convalescent Barracks, Gallatin, Tennessee. On February 1, 1963, he was discharged under a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability, at that location because of phithise s pulmonalis and was not entitled to a pension. On his discharge it was noted that he could be contacted at Argos, Marshall County, Indiana.

After his discharge, Michael returned to his home at Argos, Indiana, and apparently recovered his health, as on July 18, 1863, he enlisted at Plymouth, Indiana, to serve three years as a Private in the 73rd Indiana Infantry. On July 18, 1863, h e was mustered into Federal service with Company D at Indianapolis, Indiana. At that time he was listed as a 19 years old, 5'9" tall farmer, with brown hair, gray eyes and a dark complexion, born in Boone County, Indiana.
On July 1, 1865, Company D of the 73rd Indiana Infantry was mustered out of Federal service at Nashville, Tennessee. On the muster out roll it was noted that Michael was due $75.00 of his enlistment bounty, that no discharge had been furnished , and he was to be retained for unexpired term of his enlistment. On August 31, 1865, he was transferred to Company E of the 29th Indiana Infantry, in accordance with S.O. No. 9, Headquarters Military Division Tennessee at Nashville. On Decembe r 2, 1865, he was mustered out of Federal service with Company E at Marietta, Georgia. It was later determined that no discharge papers were given at the muster out of that organization.
- John Christeson

County E.125 Ind. Inf.G.A.K.1861 1865 Take road in South west corner of cemetery and go north on right side of road about half way down first section.
This is the Warranty Deed # 84654
Michael Rhodes grantor of Barron County Wisconsin hereby convey and warrant to Angie Rhodes grantee of Barron Co. Wisconsin for the sum of eight hundred $800.00 Dollars, the following tracts of land in Barron County, in the state of Wiscofe north west quarter of the south east quarter and the south half of the north east quarter and the south west quarter of the south east quarter of the south west quarter all in section number 23 Township number 33 north of range 11 we st and the same are free from all incumberance whatever except a mortage of seven hyndred and fifty ($750.00) dollars which granted assumes.
Witness the land and seal of said grantor this 21st day of July 1906
In presence of
J. A. H. Johnson his
Samuel Davis Miahael _X___Rhodes (seal)
State of Wisconsin mark
------------County So personally came before me this 21st day of July A.D. 1906 the above named Michael Rhodes to me known to be the person who executed the forgoing instrument and acknowleded the same.
X J. A. H. Johnson
Justice of the Peace
Filed for record March 13th 1907 at 4 O'clock p.m.


M. E. Gilstad Register



29-417
Elizabeth Haynes $1800.00 to Michael Rhodes & Angie his wife
South half of northeast Quarter of the southwest quarter and the south half of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the south east quarter of the southwest quarter and htat part of he southeast quarter lying west of the Red Cedalmber 23-township number 33 north of range number 1 west.
Also a certain piece of land lying west of Red Cedar River in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section number 26, said town and range, being a part of a certain piece of land particularily described a 8 acres in a deed-giaife to said Vena A. Clark and recorded in volume 5 of Deeds page 487 and being all of last mentioned piece lying west of said river.
Subject to the roadway reserved across a part of said land and in a deed from Vena A. Clark to Elizabeth Haynes which said deed was recorded in deeds 12 page 102
Set seal January 18-1904

103462
Theodore O. Filiatreau & Hilda his wife $675.00 to Angie Rhodes.
Barron County Wisconsin
All that part of the southeast quarter of the north east quarter, Section 28 township 34 range 12.
Commencing at the south wert corner of the north quarter of the noeth east quarter and running thence east on the south line of said forty 331.08 feet running thence south parrell with the east line of said section 283 feet to the point o,eest from said point of begging 50 feet, running thence south to the center line of Railway Avenue north as located on the plot of railway addition to the city of Barron, running thus thence east of said Center line 50 feet running the nce north parrell with the east line of said Section to the point herein designated as the point of beginning.

August 11, 1911
This is north of railway east to west.now owned by Morris Avery 4-5 Angie Rhodes
David and Sandra La Liberty 4-3A large lot next lot belongs to City of Barron.
Barbara Balog helped Marcella Cimfl locate October 2002

1880 Census
Green, Marshall, IN
Michael age 32 Born about 1848
sp Angie born Ohio
Nellie E. 3, Cora D. 2

1930 Census
Chetek
Michael Rhodes
Angie
Orlie 21, Walter 16, Howard 12. Cora 26, Eva Gordon 8

Michael Rhodes enlisted in the Civil War at Plymouth, IN on Aug 7, 1862 at age 17. He served in Co D of the 73 Indianaand also in CoO E. of the 29th Indiana. His military record said he had gray/black eyes, brown hair, 5' 9" tall and dark comple xion. It also stated he was in Boone County, and a farmer by trade. He was mustered oput on July 2, 1865 ( In St Archives) He was a carpenter by trade. Orbit. in Chetek Alert (Chetek, Barron County, WI) Friday Sept. 6, 1907

Michael married Angeline Mary Short on 14 Nov 1875 in Argos. Indiana. Angeline (daughter of Gideon Short and Lydia Whitehead) was born on 13 Dec 1855; died on 15 Jul 1932 in Buried In Chetek, WI. Barron County. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!Was a carpenter by trade. Obit. in the Bourbon NewsMirror (Bourbon,
Marshall County IN) Sep 27, 1928.

William married Sarah Sheer on 3 Jul 1875 in Marshall County, IN. Sarah was born in Sep 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a young man he was a circus acrobat according to his grandson
Harold Rhodes.

Benjamin married Susan Marah Countryman on 16 Aug 1877 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. Susan (daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Gerard) was born on 25 Apr 1860 in Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN; died on 20 Apr 1917 in Barron, Barron County, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susan married J. Shelby Leland on 13 Jan 1872 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a Saddler, Cobbler by trade. Obit. in the Weekly Repulican
(Plymouth, Marshall County IN) Nov. 24, 1921.

Isaac married Ellen M Moore on 29 Sep 1875 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Josiah married Rebecca Schleppey in Crawfordsville, IN. Rebecca was born on 8 Sep 1834; died on 8 Oct 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Minnie Mefford on 29 Apr 1880 in Urbana, Champaign County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anna Hafey on 7 Apr 1870 in Champaign County OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1860 United States Federal Census
about Isaac Wallace
Name: Isaac Wallace
Age in 1860: 34
Birth Year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Walnut, Marshall, Indiana
Gender: Male
Post Office: Argos
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac Wallace 34
Isabel Wallace 34
Mary Wallace 6
Perry Wallace 4
Susannah Wallace 2
John Wallace 7/12

Died:
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Y
Y
Y

Notes:

1860 United States Federal Census
about Isaac Wallace
Name: Isaac Wallace
Age in 1860: 34
Birth Year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Walnut, Marshall, Indiana
Gender: Male
Post Office: Argos
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac Wallace 34
Isabel Wallace 34
Mary Wallace 6
Perry Wallace 4
Susannah Wallace 2
John Wallace 7/12

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1860 United States Federal Census
about Isaac Wallace
Name: Isaac Wallace
Age in 1860: 34
Birth Year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Walnut, Marshall, Indiana
Gender: Male
Post Office: Argos
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac Wallace 34
Isabel Wallace 34
Mary Wallace 6
Perry Wallace 4
Susannah Wallace 2
John Wallace 7/12

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The tombstone says"

Peter Maxwell Sour
son of S. and M.E. Sour
Died Jan. 3, 1857
Aged 2 y's 24 Ds
Dear little lamb for earth too fair
Has gone to Heaven
to dwell forever there."

There is a lamb at the top of the tombstone.

Notes:

1860 Census, Indiana, Richland twsp., Grant County, page 359, dwelling # 826, has Edward living with his parents, age 2.

1870 Census, Ohio, Brown twsp., Miami County, Dwelling 306, Page 265B, has Edward living with parents, age 12.

1880 Census, Ohio, S.V. Dist. 2, E.D. 21, Dwelling 13, Harrison twsp., Champaign County, has Edward living with parents, age 22.

1900 Census, California, Vol. 39, E.D. 152, Sheet 20, Line 38, Valuntario St., Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, has Edward Sour (Sowers) living with his wife Emma. The census indicated his occupation as a farm laborer, married for 19 years a nd never having children.

1910 Census, California, 109-0067-0179, Santa Clara County, has Edward Sawer (Sowers) living with his wife Emma.

1920 Census, California, Vol. 120. E.D. 123, Sheet 4, Line 6, 52 North First Street, Campbell, Santa Clara County, has Edward Sower living with wife Emma.

Family/Spouse: Emma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1900 Census, Ohio, Vol. 92 E.D. Sheet 3, Line 28, Liberty twsp., Logan County has John living with wife Laura; three daughters, May (Alda Mae, Cecil F., and Adda B. (Addie); three sons, Floyd P., Willis R., and Percy R.

1920 Census, Ohio, Vol. 123, E.D. 191, Sheet 11, Line 75, 220 Oakland Square, Bellefontaine, Logan County has John living with wife Laura, four sons, Floyd P., Willis, Ray P., and Hershal R.; one granddaughter Dorothy I. Bolen

1890 Census, Indiana, Richland twsp., Grant County, page 359, dwelling #826, has Laura living with her parents, age 9 month.

OBITUARY - Bellefontaine Examiner, dtg Friday, July 8, 1935, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio.

PARALYSIS CAUSES DEATH - Funeral of Mrs. Laura Ellen Strayer To Be Held Saturday - Mrs. Laura Ellen Strayer died Thursday at 2:15 p.m. of paralysis after an illness of but a few days. She was stricken Tuesday at her family home, 220 Oaklanor some time. Living in the home with her were her son, Herschel Strayer, and wife and baby son and another son, Ray Strayer.
Laura Ellen Sower-Strayer was born Sept. 5, 1859, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sower. When she was quite young they moved to a farm near Tremont City, later moving to the vicinity of West Liberty. She was the only daughter in a fafhhers having preceded her in death.
She was united in marriage with John E. Strayer, July 11, 18885, his death occurring in August of 1923. They moved to a farm in the vicinity of West Liberty, later moving to West Liberty, then to Bellefontaine.
The deceased was the mother of seven children. Those who remain are Mrs. Ernest Yoder, of West Liberty; Floyd P. Strayer, of Urbana; Willis W. Strayer, Ray Strayer and Herschel Strayer, of Bellefontaine. There are 12 grandchildren and threng. One granddaughter, Mrs. Dorothy Bolen Stevens, who now resides in Lima, was reared by Mrs. Strayer from infancy.
The following brothers remain, John Sower, of West Liberty; Rev. Grant Sower, of Ferry, Mich., and Edward E. Strayer of Campbell, Calif.
Mrs. Strayer was long a member of the Congregational church in West Liberty. She was a loving mother and always helpful and considerate.
Services will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in the Leonard & Eichholtz Funeral Home with Dr. C.E. Rice pastor of the Lutheran church, in charge. Burial will be made in the West Liberty cemetery.



Funeral Services - Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, dtg. July 1935.

MRS. STRAYER IS BURIED - Services for Mrs. Laura Strayer were held in the Leonard & Eichholtz Funeral Home Saturday at 1:30 p.m. with Dr. C. E. Rice, pastor of the Lutheran church, in charge.
The following pallbearers served at the burial in West Liberty cemetery. Floyd, Willis, Ray and Herschel Strayer and Ernest Yoder and Glenn Willitts.




Death certificate: Vol: 7878, Cert. NR. 43968, Logan County, Ohio

Family/Spouse: John Edward Strayer. John was born on 15 Jul 1861 in West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio; died on 19 Aug 1923 in West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The picture in the scrapbook shows 4 generations starting with John Fred Sowers. The back row is Richard Allender being held by Mildred Allender, John Sowers (son of Fred and Florence), and William Graham being held by Mabel Graham. The ft w is Florence Sowers, Barbara Allender, John Sowers, Marjorie Graham and Fred Sowers.

Marjorie Graham remembers that John Fred Sowers gave his great-grandchildren pennies. He lived into his 90's. She remembers him staying at her house when she was a child and sitting on the front porch.


Notes from Mabel Sowers Graham say that he did not like the name John King and changed it so that he went by John W. Sowers all is life. He moved to Clark County, Ohio, when he was a child and to Liberty Township, Logan County, in 1884.


An article about John Sowers is found in Memoirs of the Miami Valley, Vol. III Biographical is found at the Logan County District Library (G 977.14 M533). The article is as follows;

The entire career of John Sowers, of Liberty township, has been devoted to the vocations of farming and stock-raising, and during the past 28 years he has occupied his present property of 150 acres. He is a native of Grant county, Ind., born Ju ne 23, 1861, a son of Samuel and Mary (King) Sowers, natives of Clark County, Ohio. The parents, after their marriage, moved to Grant County, Indiana, but in 1865 returned to Clark County, and about 1885 came to Logan County where they made the ir home until their deaths. They followed the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, and won the esteem and respect of their fellow-citizens by their honorable lives. Mr. and Mrs. Sowers were the parents of nine children, of whom five are living : Edward, Elmer, Grant, John and Laura. John Sowers secured his education in the public schools of Champaign County where his parents had moved when he was about seven years of age, and after leaving school, remained with his father on the hom e place until 1892. In that year he rented his present property, a tract of 150 acres on which he has operated for a period of 28 years. Mr. Sowers has met with success, both in general farming and stock raising, and has 45 acres in corn, feed ing his grain to his 40 head of hogs. Mr. Sowers was married May 18, 1887 to Mary Crowl, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, October 7, 1862, daughter of William and Ann (Mc Caughey) Crowl, and to this union there have been born two childre n; Lulu, who married Oscar Hartman and had two children, Muriel and Grace Marie: and Fred, who married Florence Tilton and has two children, Mabel and Mildred. William Crowl was born in Washington County, Maryland, whence he moved to Urbana Ohi o. There he married Ann McCaughey, who was born in Washington County, Indiana, and they settled on a farm in Champaign County where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Sowers was their only child. Mr. and Mrs. Sowers are consisten t members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is Republican, and his service to his community have included official work as a member of the school board.

The Farm Journal Directory of Logan County, 1916, found at the Logan County Library, states that John W. and Mary E. Sowers are the tenants of a 150 acre farm on R4 West Liberty. It states they have two children, but son, Fred, had moved away . They had 4 horses and 35 cows. They had a telephone.

1910 Census for Liberty Township, Logan County Ohio, lists John Sowers as head on the family, living with his wife Mary, son Fred, daughter, Lulu, and brother Elmer. John and Elmer were both born in Indiana; everyone else born in Ohio. John'so ccupation was listed as general farmer and Lulu's occupation was listed as seamstress.

John married Mary Eliza Crowl on 18 May 1887 in Springhills Presbyterian Church, Champaign County OH. Mary was born on 7 Oct 1862 in Harrison Township, Champaign County, OH; died on 14 Aug 1947 in Near West Liberty, Logan County OH; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, West Liberty, Logan County OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His obituary was found in the scrapbook of his great-niece Mabel Sowers Graham.

Elmer W. Sowers, 68, was found dead in the barn, at the home of his brother John W. Sowers, and wife, with home he resided, one mile north of West Liberty, on the Bellefontaine road, last Friday afternoon, near 3 o'clock. Mr.. Sowers had eate n a hearty dinner, smoked a cigar, and about one o'clock went to the barn to look after some cattle. Mrs. Sowers was busy at her work and thought nothing about Elmer not returning to the house, and when her husband, who was away, came home abou t 3 o'clock, he went to the barn and found his brother lying dead on the barn floor. Dr. Herbert L. Mikesell, of West Liberty, County Coroner, was called, and gave a verdict of death from a heart attack.


The obituary states he was born in Grant county, Indiana and moved with his parents first to Clark County, Ohio, then to Champaign County, and later to Logan County, where he lived with his brother, John, for over fifty years. He was of a famil y of nine children, eight brothers and one sister, of whom three brothers and the sister survive. They are Edward Sowers of California; Grant Sowers of Elkhart, Indiana, John W. Sowers of West Liberty, and Mrs. Laura Strayer of Bellefontaine.

He was apparently in good health and his death came as a great shock to the family and entire community. For a great many years he had belong to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and cherished the teachings of this Order. He leaves many re latives and friends to mourn his passing.

Mabel Sowers Graham always referred to him as Uncle Batch ( I wonder if that was because he was a bachelor).

Notes:

In Grant Sower's obituary there is no " s" on his name. The correspondence I have addressed to him also spells his name Sower. I believe my mother Mabel Sowers told me a dispute between brothers resulted in the spelling differences but I dotw any details.

His obituary states that Grant Sower spent his early years in Ohio in Logan and Champaign Counties where he attended high school, Normal school and the old Urbana University. He traced his lineage to the founding of Philadelphia in 1681. Eac h of the eight succeeding generations of the Sower family had contributed a Methodist minister. Rev. Mr. Sower was married to Louena Windson, daughter and granddaughter of Methodist ministers. Following his marriage Rev. Sower spent four year s teaching school and was superintendent of schools at Rushylvania before deciding to devote his life to the ministry. His first charge was at Rossville in 1895 and he served 18 years in the Ohio Conference before transferring to the Detroit co nference in 1913. in 1936 he went on a retired basis and the next year he and his family moved to North Muskegon, Michigan, where he served eight years until ill health caused him to retire in 1945. Rev. Mr. Sower was widely known as a lecture r and writer of special articles and poetry. While in Fenton, Michigan, he was appointed in 1925 a special speaker for the League of Nation's World Court Association in recognition of his platform work and press articles on international affair s which were widely circulated.

I have in my possession in 2000 a scrapbook containing poetry and articles written by him as well as letters from President Coolidge's secretary.

Grant married Louena Windsor on 8 Sep 1891 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Louena was born on 15 Dec 1872 in New Holland, Ohio; died on 26 May 1954 in North Muskegon, Michigan; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, West Liberty, Logan County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jesse married Catherine S. Lee on 6 May 1886 in Marshall County, IN. Catherine (daughter of Isaac Lee and Ann Shafer) was born in 1855 in Carditon, OH; died on 13 Mar 1892. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Basil married Phoebe Alice Jacoby on 30 Jul 1878 in Plymouth, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary married Isaac Washburn before 1886. Isaac was born on 23 Dec 1862 in Culver, Marshall In; died in 1927; was buried in 1927 in Culver, Marshall In. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Schuyler married Cora E. Welch on 1 Oct 1900. Cora was born about 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Schuyler married Bessie May on 11 Aug 1913. Bessie was born on 22 Dec 1894 in Marshall County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jesse Fremont Rhodes left Kokomo Indiana in about 1917 and dropped his last name Rhodes and was thereafter known as Jesse Fremont. When his eldest son, Jesse, was born he was known as Jesse, Sr. and his son as Jesse, Jr. Jesse, Jr. also hd named Jesse whose middle name was Bryan, and two other sons, David Jennings and Paul Glen.

Jesse married Helen Jeannette Middleton on 6 Oct 1919 in Galveston, Galveston County; Texas. Helen was born on 17 Jun 1896 in Galveston, Galveston County; Texas; died on 18 Jan 1983 in Texas City, Galveston County; Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Information from Carol White, 27 Apr 2010, email

Bertha married Hiram Shaub Mowrer on 24 Dec 1908 in St. Joseph County, IN. Hiram was born on 21 Dec 1883 in Lancaester County, PA; died on 9 Jan 1964 in St. Petersburg, Florida; was buried in Memorial Park Cem., St. Petersburg, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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This small cemetery is located in Center Township, Howard County, Indiana on the north side of West Markland Avenue just east of the intersection of Berkley Road in about the 1700 block of W. Markland. The cemetery was cared for many years by Wi lliam W. Coleman (s/o George W.) until his death 01 April 1972. Crown Point Cemetery is now in charge of the upkeep of Coleman Cemetery as it is known today.

Family/Spouse: Frank Clevenger. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alta married James O. Thomas on 20 Jan 1893 in Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Effie married Charles S. Elliott on 26 May 1895 in Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nellie married George Kimmel on 24 Dec 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Cora married Arthur Gordon on 15 Mar 1896 in Marshall County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Napoleon Couture. Napoleon died on 21 Jul 1955 in Minneapolis, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cora married Arthur Gordon on 15 Mar 1896 in Marshall, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fireman when they got married. He had been previously married. Died of Carcioma of Prostrate

Soc Sec # 470-14-9852

1930 Census
Sandstone MN
Orlie Rhodes
Cristma
daughter Elaine, son Richard

Orlie married Christma Vaag on 21 Jun 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Orlie married Lucy Webber Farrington on 12 Jun 1943 in Farrington Home Angelo, WI. Lucy was born on 29 Jun 1905 in Bangor Maine Penabscot, Maine, Monroe Co M 18-465; died on 14 Nov 1983 in Sparta, WI. Monroe County Sparta D53-484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Emily Ellen Adams on 6 Jun 1914. Emily was born on 28 Feb 1896; died on 11 Oct 1947 in Barron WI., Barron County 23-334. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rolla married Margaret Horns on 29 May 1904. Margaret was born on 25 Jun 1884; died on 20 Aug 1967. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Florence married Samuel R. Kuhnley on 24 Mar 1901. Samuel was born on 7 Jan 1878 in Inwood, Marshall County, IN; died on 11 Nov 1941 in Barron County, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a Christened Dunkard

buried: Tiffany Cem, Boyceville, Wi

Places of Residence Argus, IN, Hillsdale, Wi, Boyceville, Wi

Occ: Farmer

Ione Jordan says Edwards middle names is Isiac

Some how I got Sohpie and Edward in here twice

Edward married Sophie Trena Opsahl on 23 Aug 1903 in Barron County, Town Of Maple Grove, Wisconsin 22-72. Sophie (daughter of Peder Jenson Opsahl and Marie Berta Gorder) was born on 8 Sep 1886; died on 7 Aug 1971. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daisy married Emanuel Theophilous Mizer on 8 Dec 1903 in Dallas WI., Barron County D-584. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clarence married Ruby Lillian Vant on 10 Jun 1907 in Ladysmith, Rusk County, WI. Ruby (daughter of Charles Franklin Vant and Elizabeth Ann "Libbie" Good) was born on 29 Nov 1888 in Reedsburg, Sauk County, WI; died on 11 Apr 1978 in Warsaw, Kosciusko County, IN; was buried in Etna Green, Kosciusko County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Benjamin Franklin Kuhnly on 13 Sep 1904 in Barron, Barron County, WI. Benjamin was born on 15 Jan 1881 in Inwood, Marshall County, IN; died on 30 Oct 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Earl married Florence Almenia Wallace on 13 Sep 1930 in Warsaw, IN. Florence (daughter of Fred Wallace and Ruth) was born on 24 Jan 1905 in Osceola, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ethel Wallace. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1900 United States Federal Census
about Arthur C Rhodes
Name: Arthur C Rhodes
Home in 1900: Tippecanoe, Marshall, Indiana
Age: 22
Birth Date: Jan 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relationship to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Isaac Rhodes
Father's Birthplace: Indiana
Mother's Name: Ellen Rhodes
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Isaac Rhodes 51
Ellen Rhodes 40
Arthur C Rhodes 22
Pearl E Ramsey 18
John Ramsey 22
Arthur Ramsey 0

1910 United States Federal Census
about Arthur Rhodes
Name: Arthur Rhodes
Age in 1910: 33
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Estimated birth year: abt 1877
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Birthplace: Indiana
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Ohio
Mother's Birth Place: Indiana
Spouse's name: Rotha E Rhodes
Home in 1910: Tippecanoe, Marshall, Indiana
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male

Household Members:
Name Age
Arthur Rhodes 33
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Rotha E Rhodes 24
Claude Rhodes 2

1920 United States Federal Census
about Arthur Rhodes
Name: Arthur Rhodes
Home in 1920: Tippecanoe, Marshall, Indiana
Age: 41
Estimated birth year: abt 1879
Birthplace: Indiana
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
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Spouse's name: Retna Rhodes
Father's Birth Place: Indiana
Mother's Birth Place: Indiana
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Own
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes

Household Members:
Name Age
Arthur Rhodes 41
Retna Rhodes 31
Claude Rhodes 12
Lloyd Rhodes 5


1930 United States Federal Census
about Arthur C Rhodes
Name: Arthur C Rhodes
Home in 1930: Tippecanoe, Marshall, Indiana
View Map
Age: 53
Estimated birth year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Relation to Head of House: Head
Race: White

Household Members:
Name Age
Arthur C Rhodes 53
Lloyd Rhodes 15
John Rhodes 10
Irma M Tucker 63

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