List - Over the years, a lot has been made of William Rhodes' claim to have been born in Washington D.C. and its led many of us to create a first unknown wife for Bennett (Benedict) Rhodes to account for the child William. I've decided to delete the unknown wife and move William to what I believe for a number of reasons are his proper parents and that would be William Rhodes of Washington D.C and Ann Simms, making Bennett his uncle. That leaves me with one problem - who ARE Benedict Rhodes children? I can only prove one that survived childhood and that would be Ann Victoria who married Wilford Medley. I have read of another alleged daughter - Nelly (probably Eleanor) who allegedly died young. While that is very probable given her mother's name of Eleanor - I can't prove it. And according to the censuses there should be yet another girl in the family. There at one time should have also been at least another couple of male children in the household. Did all of Bennet's children other than Ann die young or was he in the habit of taking in the neighborhood and family waif's? I would appreciate any help with sorting Benedict's family or extended "family". Jackie