lydia-valentine

Valentine, Lydia Ann

Birth Name Valentine, Lydia Ann
Gramps ID I0052
Gender female
Age at Death 77 years, 8 months, 18 days

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1825-03-25 Chester Cty, Pennsylvania, USA  
 
Census 1850 Colerain Twp, Lancaster Cty, Pennsylvania, USA  
1a
Census 1860 Madriver Twp, Champaign Cty, Ohio, USA  
2a
Census 1880 Pleasant Twp, Logan Cty, Ohio, USA  
3a
Census 1900 Madriver Twp, Champaign Cty, Ohio, USA  
4a
Death 1902-12-12 Champaign Cty, Ohio, USA  
 
Burial   Myrtle Tree Cemetery, Saint Paris, Champaign Cty, Ohio, USA  
 

Families

    Family of Rhoads, Thomas and Valentine, Lydia Ann [F0026]
Married Husband Rhoads, Thomas [I0053] ( * 1823 + 1906 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1846-03-05    
 
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Rhoads, Emmett Valentine [I3876]1847-02-021921-05-24
Rhoads, Sarah [I3877]1849-05-301870-06-04
Rhoads, Joseph Absolem [I3878]1851-12-191915-10-12
Rhoads, Laura Mary [I3875]18541936-09-11
Rhoads, Iola Catherine [I0049]1857-02-161938-06-02
Rhoads, Harriet [I3879]1859
Rhoads, Margaret Ann [I3820]1863-05-191932-10-03
Rhoads, Emma [I3880]1865
Rhoads, Ida Belle [I3881]18681957

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Narrative

Note: Researching Lydia Ann Valentine

In the 1850 US Census listing for the household of Thomas Rhoads and Lydia (Valentine) Rhoads is a twenty-one-year-old bachelor named Jesse K. Valentine. Each of the men give their occupation as "miller," suggesting that perhaps they were in business together. Supplemental information posted to the FindaGrave.com website's listing for Jesse gives his parents' names as William Valentine and Hannah Keith; that information also indicates that he had four older brothers, but doesn't mention any older sisters, and says he was one of ten children. (One of his older brothers, Archibald, was easier to locate than the others - and the supplemental information on Archibald's listing on the FindaGrave.com website gives the same parents' names, but says he was one of six children.) Further searches turns up a listing for William Henry Valentine, son of Barnabas and Jane Valentine, husband of Hannah Keith, and father of ten (including most of the same names listed with Jesse's supplemental), b. 1797 in Pennsylvania, d. 1848 in Champaign Cty, Ohio.

I had initially hoped that Lydia and Jesse were siblings, which would make establishing a lineage for her easier. While that is still possible (girls were obviously much more easily "lost" to history upon marriage and giving up their maiden names), they may have been cousins, not siblings. Locating a copy of her obituary, if any exists, might well give her parents' names to help confirm or contradict this line of research.

ADDENDUM: A pedigree for descendants of Barnabas Valentine, posted to the worldfamilies.net website, lists ten children born to him and wife Hannah Jane, five of them sons (including William Henry). Of those sons, John (b. 1793) and Robert (b. 1800) would both easily be old enough to be the father of Lydia, and among the two youngest sons, even James (b. 1806) might have been her father, though that's not nearly as likely.

The confluence of Lydia and Jesse in the same household would strongly suggest to me that Lydia was also a grandchild of Barnabas Valentine, though I have not managed to find much documentation of the families of Barnabas' other sons to be able to confirm this.

SECOND ADDENDUM: Returning to this branch of research after a few years, I decided to start looking for potential parents and grandparents of Lydia in Chester Cty records. I will note that her second son had a relatively uncommon middle name of Absalom, and there was a an Absalom Valentine (or Balentine, or similar) counted in the 1820, 1840, and 1850 US Censuses in Londonderry Twp, Chester Cty, Pennsylvania. This man was born about 1795, and in the 1840 listing for his household there was indeed one young woman between the ages of fifteen and twenty - which could well have been Lydia. This Absalom Valentine had an older sister Lydia, and was himself one of the younger sons of another Absalom Valentine (b. 1757). I find it this to be a more likely candidate ancestry for our Lydia than Barnabas. Online records have not lead to much that can confirm this, so actual local records may be required to confirm this.

 

 

Pedigree

    1. Valentine, Lydia Ann
      1. Rhoads, Thomas [I0053]
        1. Rhoads, Emmett Valentine [I3876]
        2. Rhoads, Sarah [I3877]
        3. Rhoads, Joseph Absolem [I3878]
        4. Rhoads, Laura Mary [I3875]
        5. Rhoads, Iola Catherine [I0049]
        6. Rhoads, Harriet [I3879]
        7. Rhoads, Margaret Ann [I3820]
        8. Rhoads, Emma [I3880]
        9. Rhoads, Ida Belle [I3881]

Source References

  1. US Census of 1850 [S0046]
      • Date: 1850-08-30
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4H2-FBB : accessed 12 December 2014), Thomas Roads, Colerain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 155, NARA microfilm publication M432, NARA microfilm publication M432, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

        Event Year: 1850
        Event Place: Colerain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
        Thomas Roads M 25 Pennsylvania
        Lyda Ann Roads F 23 Pennsylvania
        Emmet Roads M 3 Pennsylvania
        Sarah Roads F 1 Pennsylvania
        Jesse K Valentine M 21 Pennsylvania

  2. US Census of 1860 [S0044]
      • Date: 1860-07-16
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCG6-9QS : accessed 12 December 2014), Lydia A Rhodes in household of Thomas Rhoads, Madriver Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; p. 4, household ID 914, NARA microfilm publication M653; NARA microfilm publication M653. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 803,942.

        Event Year: 1860
        Event Place: Madriver Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States
        Thomas Rhoads M 38 Pennsylvania
        Lydia A Rhodes F 36 Pennsylvania
        Emmiet Rhodes M 12 Pennsylvania
        Sarah Rhodes F 10 Pennsylvania
        Joseph Rhodes M 8 Pennsylvania
        Laura Rhodes F 5 Pennsylvania
        Harriet Rhodes F 0 Pennsylvania

  3. US Census of 1880 [S0045]
      • Date: 1880-06-11
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M89V-NBL : accessed 12 December 2014), Lydia L Rhodes in household of Thomas Rhodes, Pleasant, Logan, Ohio, United States, 123; citing sheet 199B, film number 1041, NARA microfilm publication T9, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,255,041.

        Event Year: 1880
        Event Place: Pleasant, Logan, Ohio, United States
        Thomas Rhodes Self M 57 Pennsylvania
        Lydia L Rhodes Wife F 56 Pennsylvania
        Hattie Rhodes Daughter F 20 Ohio
        Ida Rhodes Daughter F 12 Ohio
        Anne Rhodes Daughter F 18 Ohio
        Emma Rhodes Daughter F 15 Ohio

  4. US Census of 1900 [S0039]
      • Date: 1900-06-15
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMCX-2R1 : accessed 12 December 2014), Lyddia A Rhoads in household of Thomas Rhoads, Madriver Township, Westville Voting Precinct, Champaign, Ohio, United States; citing sheet 6A, family 127, NARA microfilm publication T623, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,241,245.

        Event Year: 1900
        Event Place: Madriver Township, Westville Voting Precinct, Champaign, Ohio, United States
        Thomas Rhoads Head M 78 Pennsylvania
        Lyddia A Rhoads Wife F 75 Pennsylvania
        Margrette A Rhoads Daughter F 38 Ohio