Month: April 2010

Those brick walls will sometimes fall

About a week ago, I knocked down one of those brick walls that we sometimes hit in genealogy, thanks to the help of other researchers through internet. For around, twenty years I was barking up the wrong tree, all due to a court record misspelling, & place of birth error. It started while researching my great-grandfather, Isaac Wesley Thomas (b. 1853) at the Marshall County court house, in Plymouth, Indiana. There, I found two separate marriage applications, in which he listed his father as: Isaac Thomas, his mother as: Betsy Harnerson and his birth place as: Perry County, PA. So, I checked the 1860 census for an Isaac Thomas with a wife by the name of Elizabeth or Betsy, with child named Isaac, born in Pennsylvania, and found no matches. Unfortunately, Isaac Thomas was a very common at the time, and Ancestry.com and the internet were not available at the time. I searched every resource available to me at the time to no avail. Now, thanks to the internet and Ancestry.com’s Family Tree Search, lo and behold, I have found my Isaac Wesley Thomas in one of the family tree databases. I discovered his mother’s maiden was “Harmirson,” not “Harnerson”. I also later concluded his birth place was Marshall County, Indiana, not Perry County, PA. The data I saw said that Isaac Wesley Thomas’ mother, Betsy had died in 1856. By 1858 his father, also named Isaac, had removed to Stark County, Indiana and remarried. With that name correction, I was able to go back another three generations, as seen here: http://carl.rhodesfamily.org/pedigree.php?personID=I172&tree=Carls I’m exited more ancestors to research!

Have good hunt, and all the best,

Carl

Categories: Genealogy

Rhoades / Rhoads / Rhodes Biographies from the book: Herringshaw’s national library of American biography

From the book entitled: Herringshaw’s national library of American biography: contains thirty-five thousand biographies of the acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States; illustrated with three thousand vignette portraits
Editor: Thomas William Herringshaw
Publisher: American Publishers’ Association, 1914

Cornelia Harsen Rhoades b. 1863 NY
Henry Heckford Rhoades b. 1844 NY
Richard S. Rhodes b. 1842 Rhode Island
J. N. Rhoads b. 1859, in Montgomery Co., PA
James E. Rhoads b. 1828, in Marple, PA
Samuel Rhoads b. 1711 in Philadelphia, PA
Samuel Nicholson Rhoads b. 1862, in Philadelphia, PA
Thomas J. B. Rhoads b. 1837, in Berks county, PA
A. L. Rhodes, lawyer, jurist. In 1864-72 he was chief justice of the supreme court , of California
Albert Rhodes b. 1840, in Pittshurgh, PA
Bradford Rhodes b. 1849, in Beaver county, PA
Christopher Rhodes b. 1840, in Providence, RI
Daniel Rhodes b. 1898, in Maryland
Harrison Garfield Rhodes b. 1871, in Cleveland, Ohio
James Ford Rhodes b. 1848, in Cleveland, Ohio
Marion Edward Rhodes b. 1868, in Glen Allen, MO
Rufus Napoleon Rhodes b. 1856, in Pascagoula. MS
Stephen Holbrook Rhodes b.1825, in Franklin, MA
William Henry Rhodes b. 1822, in Bertie Co., NC
William Henry Rhodes b. 1858 Comfort, NC

To see the biographies in their entirety follow this link: http://rhodesfamily.org/herringshaw_biographies.php

Biography of Robert E. Rhodes

From the book entitled: Americanized Encyclopaedia britannica: rev. and amended A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature, to which is added biographies of living subjects. 96 colored maps and numerous illustrations, Volume 10
Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica: Rev. and Amended A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, to which is Added Biographies of Living Subjects. 96 Colored Maps and Numerous Illustrations
Publisher: Belford-Clarke co., 1890

Robert E. Rhodes, born February 1, 1840, at Pittsburgh, and educated at an academy in Indiana county, Penn. He has served as American consul at Jerusalem, also in Germany and France, and at present resides at Paris. He is the author of books descriptive of life abroad, and a writer for American and foreign publications.