I've read the discussion about the Academy and I love the way everyone joins in to help. I have a question that concerns my wife's family: Some of her relatives say they were originally from Pittsburg Landing, and others say it was South Pittsburg. Are they both right? The family name was Rhodes. Absalom Vernon Rhodes was born in Pikeville, TN Feb. 5, 1839 and died in Garber, OK Sept. 8, 1919. We have a picture of the Rhodes family on the front porch of an old house from before 1900. One of my wife's great uncles (nobody seems to know his name) died in a Chattanooga, TN hospital in 1930, was buried in South Pittsburg, and had a son named Lemuel W. Rhodes. Does anyone know this family? Frank S Falls Church, VA **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

Frank, The great uncle you mentioned appears to be William W. Rhodes - oldest child of Absalom and Sarah Rhodes. He had a son but his name was Lawrence Wesley Rhodes not Lemuel. William W. apparently remained in Marion county until he died as his widow lived there in 1930. The son Lawrence and his family were living in Hamilton county in 1930. William W. and his wife Melvina J. Harris are both buried in the Patton (Annex) Cemetery in South Pittsburg near the high school. This is all from the census records and other Marion records I have access to. I am not related and have no further info on this family. Bill Mc ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sellersgen@aol.com> To: <tnmarion@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 8:34 PM Subject: [TNMARION] A where is? question > I've read the discussion about the Academy and I love the way everyone joins > in to help. I have a question that concerns my wife's family: Some of her > relatives say they were originally from Pittsburg Landing, and others say it > was South Pittsburg. Are they both right? > > The family name was Rhodes. Absalom Vernon Rhodes was born in Pikeville, TN > Feb. 5, 1839 and died in Garber, OK Sept. 8, 1919. We have a picture of the > Rhodes family on the front porch of an old house from before 1900. One of my > wife's great uncles (nobody seems to know his name) died in a Chattanooga, > TN hospital in 1930, was buried in South Pittsburg, and had a son named Lemuel > W. Rhodes. > > Does anyone know this family? > > Frank S > Falls Church, VA > > > > **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with > Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. > (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, > requests for help, and other genealogical related information > that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a > possible connection to Marion County, Tennessee. There is no > soliciting or advertising of any item or service for sale allowed. > Betty McBee - list administrator-- macbetty2@peoplepc.com > Marion County Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmario2/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.8/1412 - Release Date: 5/2/2008 4:34 PM > >