Robert Rodes

Birth Date

1824-09-28

Death Date

1913-09-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bowling Green, Kentucky, attorney. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Graduate of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1843. Married to Mary Frances Grider Rodes in 1849. Father of Henry Clifton Rodes, William Owsley Rodes, Rachel Rodes, and Sally Rodes. Owned three enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1853 to 1855. Attorney in Bowling Green in 1860. Attorney in Bowling Green in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 468.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, District 2, p. 570.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 88.
Manuscripts and Folklife Archives, “Rodes Collection (MSS 427),” MSS Finding Aids, Paper 2464, December 14, 2012, p. 1,
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlscmssfinaid/2464.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 738.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Warren County, KY, February 1864, p. 126 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

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