This Site is Dedicated to Our Forebears, and their Descendants
1. | Garney Roscoe Rhodes (son of John Wesley Rhodes). Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children: |
2. | John Wesley Rhodes was born on 23 Sep 1869 in Marshall County, IN (son of Lemuel Rhodes and Elizabeth Williams). Notes: Died:
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4. | Lemuel Rhodes was born on 7 Aug 1833 in Urbana, Champaign County, OH (son of Joseph Hector Rhodes and Sarah Kite); died on 9 Oct 1910 in Plymouth, Marshall County, IN. Notes: Served in the Civil War in County H, of the 59th Regiment of Indiana 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] |
5. | Elizabeth Williams was born on 4 Sep 1833 in IN (daughter of Merril Williams and Sarah Roberts); died on 10 Dec 1891 in Plymouth, Marshall County, IN.
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8. | Joseph Hector Rhodes was born on 11 May 1810 in Urbana, Champaign County, OH (son of William Rhodes and Susannah); died on 18 Oct 1861 in Argos, Marshall County, IN; was buried in Argos, Marshall County, IN. Notes: 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] |
9. | Sarah Kite was born in 1811 in Rockingham County, VA (daughter of Michael Kite and Catherine Dofflemyer); died on 3 Dec 1874 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. Notes: After the death of Joseph, Sarah worked as a housekeeper. She also sold off lots in the town of Argos, which were left to her by late husbands estate. The last land record found on Sarah (Kite) Rhodes was
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10. | Merril Williams was born on 25 Dec 1810 in Ireland. Notes: Died: Merril married Sarah Roberts on 22 Nov 1832. Sarah was born on 8 Jan 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
11. | Sarah Roberts was born on 8 Jan 1808. Notes: Died:
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