Month: March 2010

Family data from a American folk sampler by Phoebe Rhodes b. 1810

From the book: American Samplers, Authors: Ethel Stanwood Bolton, Eva Johnston Coe, Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Massachusetts
Publisher: The Massachusetts society of the colonial dames of America, 1921. Page 213.

The following family records came from an American folk sampler by Phoebe Rhodes in 1820 when she was 10 yrs. old.

Robert Rhodes born Apr. 22, 1804
William P. Rhodes born Apr. 8, 1807; died Jan. 5th, 1808
Mary M. Rhodes, March 5, 1807; died February 18th, 1812;
Phoebe Rhodes born December 18th, 1810
Sally A. Rhodes born August 8th, 1813; died September 14th, 1813
Mary H. Rhodes born September 12th, 1815
Sally A. Rhodes born August 11th, 1819; died August 7th, 1820.
Owner: Mrs. George Arnold

The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations with Photos

My daughter Autumn Rhodes emailed me about an interesting web site from the National Public Radio web site (http://www.npr.org/). As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct from milkman to telegrapher, from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.
Here is the link: The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
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The Rhodes/Rhoads Families of the area of Huntertown Indiana

Thanks to the folks at Huntertown Historical Society at: http://www.huntertownhistoricalsoc.org/ for the following link:
http://rhodesfamily.org/huntertown-rhodes.php The page contains records from: Allen, Noble, DeKalb County, IN, and Stark Co., Ohio.

For more great Rhodes links visit the following:
While there don’t forget to use to use the Google search box located on most pages to find your family.

Carl Rhodes

“He who takes no interest in the history of his ancestors does not deserve to be remembered by his posterity.”