Joseph Hector Rhodes

1810 - 1861  (51 years)

• Name	Joseph Hector Rhodes
  Birth	11 May 1810	Urbana, Champaign County, OH
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Oct 1861	Argos, Marshall County, IN   [1]
  Burial	Argos, Marshall County, IN
  Person ID	I14	Carl
  Last Modified	20 May 2012

  
  

  Father	William Rhodes,   b. 1745, VA d. 22 Aug 1825, Urbana, Champaign County, OH (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Susannah,   b. Between 1766 and 1770   d. Aft 20 Oct 1831 (Age ~ 65 years)
  Marriage	1785-1788	Hampshire County, Virginia
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Kite,   b. 1811, Rockingham County, VA d. 3 Dec 1874, Argos, Marshall County, IN (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	25 Sep 1831	Urbana, Champaign County, OH
  Children	+ 1. Lemuel Rhodes,   b. 7 Aug 1833, Urbana, Champaign County, OH d. 9 Oct 1910, Plymouth, Marshall County, IN (Age 77 years) + 2. Jason D. Rhodes,   b. 3 May 1834, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio d. 7 Jul 1909, Kokomo, Howard County;Indiana (Age 75 years) + 3. Mary Rhodes,   b. 6 Mar 1837, Hamilton County, IN d. 25 Aug 1907, Argos, Marshall County, IN (Age 70 years) + 4. Elizabeth Rhodes,   b. Abt 1839, Thorntown, Boone County, IN d. 24 May 1904, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, IN (Age ~ 65 years) + 5. George Washington Rhodes,   b. Abt 1842, Thorntown, Boone County, IN d. 7 Mar 1885, Argos, Marshall County, IN (Age ~ 43 years) + 6. Joseph R. Rhodes,   b. 15 May 1844, Thorntown, Boone County, IN d. 15 Apr 1906, Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN (Age 61 years) + 7. Michael Rhodes,   b. 10 Apr 1846, Thorntown, Boone County, IN d. 28 Aug 1907, Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN (Age 61 years) + 8. William Rhodes,   b. 25 Dec 1850, Thorntown, Boone County, IN d. 19 Sep 1928, Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN (Age 77 years) + 9. Benjamin Franklin Rhodes,   b. 11 May 1852, Thorntown, Boone County, IN d. 6 Mar 1916, Barron, Barron County, WI (Age 63 years) + 10. Susan Rhodes,   b. Abt 2 Dec 1853, Marshall County, IN d. 27 Nov 1906, Fort Wayne, Allen County, IN (Age ~ 52 years) + 11. Isaac Rhodes,   b. 1 Feb 1855, Marshall County, IN d. 17 Nov 1921, Greensberg, Decter County, IN (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2014

  
  

• Photos

  Signature of Joseph H. Rhodes, 1861

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S42] Obituary of Joseph Hector Rhodes.