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1. | Robert Rhodes Robert married Leota Joyce Hunter [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Robert married Kristine Marie [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children: |
2. | Orlie Rhodes was born on 3 Nov 1884 in Marshall, Indiana (son of Michael Rhodes and Angeline Mary Short); died on 20 May 1955 in Sparta, WI. Monroe County B Woodlawn Cem. Sparta D37-55 31-444. Notes: Fireman when they got married. He had been previously married. Died of Carcioma of Prostrate 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] |
3. | Lucy Webber Farrington 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. Notes: ss#476-30-4584
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4. | Michael Rhodes was born on 10 Apr 1846 in Thorntown, Boone County, IN (son of Joseph Hector Rhodes and Sarah Kite); died on 28 Aug 1907 in Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN; was buried in Aug 1907 in Chetek, Barron County, WI. Notes: A Civil War veteran of Company D, 73rd Indiana Infantry & Company E, 29th Indiana Infantry. 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] |
5. | Angeline Mary Short was born on 13 Dec 1855 (daughter of Gideon Short and Lydia Whitehead); died on 15 Jul 1932 in Buried In Chetek, WI. Barron County. Notes: Birth: Nov. 13, 1855
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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. | Gideon Short was born in 1827 in Sussex, County DE (son of Curtis Short and Sarah); died in 1915 in Marshall County, IN. Gideon married Lydia Whitehead on 1 Jun 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
11. | Lydia Whitehead
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