Name: The Porters of Greene County

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. William Porter Rhodes: Birth: 25 MAR 1831 in Virginia. Death: 10 JUL 1894 in home, Morrisville, Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania

  2. Lydia Ann Rhodes: Birth: 5 FEB 1833 in Virginia. Death: 10 MAR 1857


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Levi B. Rhodes: Birth: ABT 1853. Death: 2 JUL 1862

  2. Margaret Rhodes: Birth: ABT 1854 in Pennsylvania. Death: BEF 25 JUN 1880


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Sources
1. Title:   The Rhodes Family of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania & Illinois
Text:   Given name/Middle name/Surname
Author:   Compiled by Dorothy V. Masters, with help from Ann Millspaugh Huff
Publication:   Cornerstone Genealogical Society
2. Title:   ÒWaynesburg MessengerÓ newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1861
Text:   Given name/Middle initial/Surname
Publication:   Cornerstone Genealogical Society, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania
3. Title:   The Rhodes Family of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania & Illinois
Text:   Location [County/State]
Author:   Compiled by Dorothy V. Masters, with help from Ann Millspaugh Huff
Publication:   Cornerstone Genealogical Society
4. Text:   Date/Location [County/State]
Author:   George W. Ingram, 204 W. Green St., Connellsville, Pennsylvania
5. Text:   Date
Author:   Howard L. Leckey
Publication:   Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
6. Title:   The Rhodes Family of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania & Illinois
Text:   Date
Author:   Compiled by Dorothy V. Masters, with help from Ann Millspaugh Huff
Publication:   Cornerstone Genealogical Society
7. Text:   Date
Author:   George W. Ingram, 204 W. Green St., Connellsville, Pennsylvania
8. Title:   Obituary of James R. Rhodes - ÒThe Waynesburg RepublicanÓ newspaper
Text:   Date/Location
9. Title:   Franklin and Morris Townships
Text:   Location
Author:   Compiled by Dorothy T. Hennen
Publication:   Reprinted by Cornerstone Genealogical Society
10. Text:   Date [Month/Year]/Location [State]
Author:   Howard L. Leckey
Publication:   Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
11. Title:   ÒWaynesburg MessengerÓ newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1861
Text:   Date
Publication:   Cornerstone Genealogical Society, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania
12. Title:   "Pieces of Greene County History - Early Greene County Marriages"
Text:   Date
Url:   www.cornerstonegenealogy.com

Notes
a. Note:   N249 Given name (James), middle name (Rodman), date (June 24, 1806) of birth, location (Greene County, Pennsylvania) of birth and date (February 9, 1880) of death from The Rhodes Family of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania & Illinois, Compiled by Dorothy V. Masters, with help from Ann Millspaugh Huff, Cornerstone Clues, Cornerstone Genealogical Society, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Volume 9 Number 1, February 1984
  Middle name (Rodman) from the Inghram family files of Nola Elliott.
  Date (June 24, 1806) of birth, location (Greene County, Pennsylvania) of birth and date (February 9, 1880) of death from family group records of George W. Ingram, 204 W. Green St., Connellsville, PA. copied from files of the Cornerstone Genealogical Society.
  Given name (Jas), middle initial (R), surname (Rhodes) and residence (Waynesburg) in October, 1861, from the ÒWaynesburg MessengerÓ newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1861, Cornerstone Clues, Volume XXXVI Number 4, November 2011, page 266
  Given name (Jas), middle initial (R), surname (Rhodes), residence (Morrisville) and status (not deceased) in August, 1878, from the obituary of Elizabeth Rhodes - "Waynesburg Republican" newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, August 7, 1878
  Given name (James), middle initial (R), surname (Rhodes), residence (east of Morrisville) and status (not deceased) in March, 1879, from the obituary of Sarah Rhodes - "Waynesburg Republican" newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, March 12, 1879
  Given name (James) and surname (Rhodes) from the obituary of James Rhodes Dulaney - "Waynesburg Republican" newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Thursday, August 15, 1901
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 The following information is from "Caldwell's Centennial Atlas of Greene County, Pennsylvania" by J. A. Caldwell, 1876:
  Jas. R. Rhodes, Penna, Waynesburg
 Date of settlement 1806, Farmer and stock raiser, also the owner of the Diamond Coal works. Best quality of coal always on hand.
 120 sheep
 220 acres
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 1850 (August 9) census data from the census images for Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania (Page 258B - image 26 - line 5) on HeritageQuest. The census indicates that he was a 44 year old farmer and living with 1 son, 1 daughter and Elizabeth Inghram, whose relationship is not known. The value of real estate owned is $5,500. He is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania. His given name and middle initial are listed as "James R" in this census.
  Elizabeth Inghram (line 8) was 58 years old and is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania.
  1860 (August 18) census data from the census images for Franklin Township (Post Office - Waynesburg), Greene County, Pennsylvania (Page 197 - Image 22 - line 25) on HeritageQuest. The census indicates that he was a 53 year old farmer and living with 1 daughter, Margaret, 1 sister, Sarah, and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Rhodes. The value of his real estate was $9,000 and the value of his personal estate was $1,000. He is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania. His given name and middle initial are listed as "James R" in this census.
  1870 (June 11) census data from the census images for Franklin Township (Post Office - Waynesburg), Greene County, Pennsylvania (Page 11 - Image 11 - line 8) on HeritageQuest The census indicates that he was a 63 year old farmer. He was living with his wife, 1 daughter, 1 sister, Sarah, a farm hand, a domestic and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Rhodes. The value of his real estate was $22,000 and the value of his personal estate was $4,900. He is listed as having been born in Pennsylvania. His given name is listed as "James" in this census.
  The farm hand was John Moore (line 13). He was 25 years old and listed as having been born in Pennsylvania. The value of his personal estate was $100. The domestic servant was Martha Huffman (line 14). She was 19 years old and listed as having been born in Pennsylvania.
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 James R. Rhodes
  The subject of this notice died at his late residence in Morrisville, one mile east of Waynesburg, last Monday morning, aged 73 years. He had been in bad health for more than a year past, and failed rapidly under the seeming weight of years.
  Mr. Rhodes was one of the old time citizens of Greene county - was born on the farm that he owned at the time of his death, two miles east of this place, where his father also lived and died. He left a very nice estate which will go to his son Joseph and a grand child, he having outlived his fourth wife.
  He will be interred in the family burying ground on the home farm, this (Tuesday) afternoon at 2 oÕclock.
  Source - ÒWaynesburg RepublicanÓ newspaper, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, February 11, 1880

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