William Rodes

Birth Date

1794-02-24

Death Date

1877-10-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Madison County, Kentucky, farmer. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Son of Robert Rodes and Eliza Delaney Rodes. Married to Pauline Clay Rodes in Madison County, Kentucky, on November 3, 1819. Father of Eliza Rodes Stone, Martha Rodes Breck, Isabella "Belle" Rodes McDowell, and Pauline C. Rodes Field. Resident in Madison County in 1830. Owned forty-one enslaved persons in Madison County in 1830. Engaged in agriculture, manufacture, and trades in Madison County in 1840. Owned thirty-two enslaved persons in Madison County in 1840. Farmer in Madison County in 1850. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Madison County in 1850. Farmer in Madison County in 1860. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Madison County in 1860.

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Western Division, p. 157.
Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Eastern Division, p. 270.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 2, p. 276B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 2, p. 546.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 1, p. 394.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 1, p. 450A.
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 86: 1926, p. 16.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183302, p. 128.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183314, p. 737 of 1033 of microfilm.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183302, p. 23.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film #000183317, p. 87.
"William Rodes (1794-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial #38385441, accessed December 28, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38385441.

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