thomas-charles-rhoads

Rhoads, Thomas

Birth Name Rhoads, Thomas
Gramps ID I0053
Gender male
Age at Death 83 years

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1823 Pennsylvania, USA  
 
Occupation     Miller
1a 2a 3a 4a
Census 1850 Colerain Twp, Lancaster Cty, Pennsylvania, USA  
1a
Census 1860 Madriver Twp, Champaign Cty, Ohio, USA  
2a
Census 1870 Pleasant Twp, Logan Cty, Ohio, USA  
3a
Census 1880 Pleasant Twp, Logan Cty, Ohio, USA  
4a
Census 1900 Madriver Twp, Champaign Cty, Ohio, USA  
5a
Death 1906 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 Wife Valentine, Lydia Ann [I0052] ( * 1825-03-25 + 1902-12-12 )
   
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

Media

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Narrative

A public Ancestry.com tree (owner "Irene Greer Ihrig") gives his parents' names as Joseph and Margaret Rhodes. No other information is given. This does seem quite possible, as he named two of his children Joseph and Margaret.

So far as his name, in the census records it is nearly always given as simply "Thomas," with the exception of the 1870 US Census, where he is listed as "Henry." (I am confident this is still the correct household, as all the other family members line up correctly.) The only source I have for his middle name being "Charles" is the obituary for his daughter (Iola Catherine Stonebraker), which names the parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rhoads of Logan Cty, Ohio; his listing on FindaGrave.com calls him only "Thomas," and does not include a photo of the gravestone for reference. For now, I have removed any middle name until I can find further confirmation.

ADDENDUM: Returning to this branch of research after a few years, I have found a public tree on the FamilySearch.org website that names his parents as Jacob Rhodes (b. 1796, d. 1884) and Mary Goodner (b. 1800, d. 1824). This was a second marriage for Jacob, as his first wife, Mary Fox (whom he married in 1819 in Warren Cty, Ohio) seems to have died in childbirth with their son John Rhoads (b. 1820). His second wife seems to have died sometime in the 1820s, as Jacob remarried in 1832 (again in Warren Cty, Ohio) to the younger Amanda Robinson. The two of them were counted in the 1860 and 1880 US Censuses in Wabash Twp, Fountain Cty, Indiana, and Jacob died in nearby Covington, Fountain Cty, Indiana in 1884. (I will note that "Jacob Rhoades" was counted in the 1840 US Census in Washington Twp, Fountain Cty, suggesting that he was not long in Ohio after his third wedding.)

That same public tree lists Jacob's parents as Samuel Rhoads (b. 1775, d. 1814) and Elizabeth Magdalena Ziegler (b. 1776, d. 1813). Samuel is listed as a son of John Rhoads (b. 1747, d. 1816) and a grandson of Henry Rhoads Sr. (b. 1711, d. 1774), born in southwestern Germany. The tree goes back further generations through Germany (with the surname Rhodt), and before that into France (with the surname de Rodez) as far back as the early 16th century. To verify this line of ancestry will likely require a great deal of research to verify and confirm.

 

 

 

Narrative

Note: The children and grandchildren of Thomas Rhoads and Lydia Ann Valentine

While I cannot confirm that my research is complete at this point, it would appear that Thomas and Lydia had nine children. At least two of their children (Sarah and Joseph) appear to have never married, while I cannot account for Emma past the age of about fifteen (after her appearance in the 1880 US Census listing for her parents' household). Margaret appears not to have married until she was in her fifties, and Laura Mary married a widower more than twenty years her senior, with no evidence found yet in my searches to indicate that she had children prior to his death (in 1911, when she herself had reached her mid-fifties).

Of those four that did have families, most of the progeny was born to Ida, their youngest child - she alone accounts for ten of their seventeen known grandchildren, and eighteen of their thirty-eight known great-grandchildren. Of the rest:

- Oldest son Emmet had three children, and has at least two known grandchildren.

- Kate (Iola Catherine), my second-great-grandmother, had three sons (out of five born) that lived to adulthood, and fourteen grandchildren (including my grandmother).

- Hattie (Harriet) had only one known daughter, and four grandchildren.

There may well be more grandchildren and great-grandchildren for Thomas and Lydia, as the research I have done is not entirely complete, but I believe I have accounted for most of them, if not all of them.

Pedigree

    1. Rhoads, Thomas
      1. Valentine, Lydia Ann [I0052]
        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 1870 [S0020]
      • Date: 1870-06-29
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M62B-R2Y : accessed 13 December 2014), Henry Roads, Ohio, United States; citing p. 1, family 1, NARA microfilm publication M593, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 552,733.

        Event Year: 1870
        Event Place: Pleasant, Logan, Ohio, United States
        Henry Roads M 49 Pennsylvania
        Lydia Roads F 46 Pennsylvania
        Joseph Roads M 19 Pennsylvania
        Laura Roads F 16 Ohio
        Kate Roads F 13 Ohio
        Hattie Roads F 10 Ohio
        Annie Roads F 8 Ohio
        Emma Roads F 5 Ohio
        Ida B Roads F 2 Ohio
        Asa Kite M 26 Ohio

  4. 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

  5. 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