This Site is Dedicated to Our Forebears, and their Descendants
1. | Myrtle Lola Rhodes was born on 25 Nov 1909 in Barron WI, Barron Co . 3-155 (daughter of Edward Isaac Rhodes and Sophie Trena Opsahl); died on 28 Oct 1982 in La Crosse Stout University 8- 505. Notes: bried Pioneer Cem- Horseshoe Bend, Idaho Myrtle married Arthur Hanson on 23 Apr 1927 in La Crosse (Stout University Menomonie, WI)8-505. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
2. | Edward Isaac Rhodes was born on 24 Feb 1881 in Argos, Marshall County, Indiana (son of Benjamin Franklin Rhodes and Susan Marah Countryman); died on 20 Apr 1943 in Boyceville, WI. Notes: He was a Christened Dunkard Edward married Sophie Trena Opsahl on 23 Aug 1903 in Barron County, Town Of Maple Grove, Wisconsin 22-72. Sophie (daughter of Peder Jenson Opsahl and Marie Berta Gorder) was born on 8 Sep 1886; died on 7 Aug 1971. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Sophie Trena Opsahl was born on 8 Sep 1886 (daughter of Peder Jenson Opsahl and Marie Berta Gorder); died on 7 Aug 1971. Notes: Christened Norweigan Lutheran
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4. | Benjamin Franklin Rhodes was born on 11 May 1852 in Thorntown, Boone County, IN (son of Joseph Hector Rhodes and Sarah Kite); died on 6 Mar 1916 in Barron, Barron County, WI. Notes: As a young man he was a circus acrobat according to his grandson Benjamin married Susan Marah Countryman on 16 Aug 1877 in Argos, Marshall County, IN. Susan (daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Gerard) was born on 25 Apr 1860 in Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN; died on 20 Apr 1917 in Barron, Barron County, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
5. | Susan Marah Countryman was born on 25 Apr 1860 in Tippecanoe, Marshall County, IN (daughter of Margaret Elizabeth Gerard); died on 20 Apr 1917 in Barron, Barron County, WI. Notes: MOTHER: DEATH: Barron County WI, Death certificate #370 of Susan Marah Countryman, shows mother as Margaret Gerrard.
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6. | Peder Jenson Opsahl was born on 1 Dec 1840 in Toten-Oppland County-Norway; died on 20 Jul 1891 in Westby, Vernon, County, WI. Peder married Marie Berta Gorder in 1874 in Cashton, Vernon, County WI. Marie was born on 7 Mar 1848 in Eastern Toten, Oppland County, Norway; died on 2 Feb 1935 in Cashton Monroe County, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
7. | Marie Berta Gorder was born on 7 Mar 1848 in Eastern Toten, Oppland County, Norway; died on 2 Feb 1935 in Cashton Monroe County, WI. Notes: Berta's last name with Noweigian Spelling is Gaarder, She immigratedto America in 1872
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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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11. | Margaret Elizabeth Gerard was born in Dec 1839 in Decatur County, IN (daughter of Barnabas Gerrard and Elizabeth "Betsy" Foley); died on 7 Aug 1909 in Etna Green, Kosciusko County, IN. Notes: PARENTS: CENSUS: Oct. 1850, Marshall County, IN, d. 15/1, r. 160, p.
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