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- See notes on William
!He was enlisted at 17 yrs old as a private of Co. a, Hardies Battalion,
Cavalry Reservers, Al. Confederate States Army, on 15 April, 1864. He was
paroled at Talladega on 05 June 1865. He graduated from College and traveled in
Europe. When he returned from Europe, he & brother William opened a General
Store in Talladega, Al. About 1880 he married Mary Garrett Garner, a widow with
one daughter Rebecca Jane. Circa 1887, he moved his family to Birmingham and
did carpenter work. In 1892, he moved to a farm in Tarrant City, Al. He moved to
Blossburg circa 1889 and died after being sick for one week. He is buried at
Five Mile Presbyterian Church & his grave is marked with a flat military marker
After his death, his wife and daughter Mary, moved with son Ross, to Texas.
!Information compiled by Mrs. O.M. Parker, his daughter and was found in
surname clipping index of the Dept. of Archives & History, Montgomery, Al.
He is shown in the 1880 Talladega, Al. census pg 67 E.D.# 132, with his
parents as single.
Mention in Deed Book Y, pg 32, 08 Dec 1898, Talladega Co AL, William James
Rhodes Estate, administer Miss Willie Mclane; the wife Sarah A. died two days
after her husband, her heirs: W.F. McLANE, Mrs. C.E. Joiner, and petitioner
Miss Willie McLane; William J. heirs are brothers and sisters: Miss Mary A
Rhodes, Mrs Rebbeca Fannie Valentine, Harry Rhodes all living in Rome, GA, John
W. Rhodes living at Buckhannon NC, M.G. Rhodes Jr.
living at Birmingham, AL, Thomas A. Rhodes at Montgomery, AL.
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