Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/165 Surname: RHODES, FLESHER, PETERS, BRADLEY, THOMAS, HARPOLD, BORD, ROLLINS, PARSONS, HAMILTON, BOWLES, STRALEY, SMITH, HAMMOND, CASTO, VANDYNE, EDEN ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Heart of Mill Creek" Rhodes Family A man named Rhodes lived in the pioneer days in Rockbridge County, Virginia, near the Natural Bridge. He was a hunter and Indian fighter. At one time, his stock were all killed or carried off in an Indian raid, and his cabin burned, but the family escaped to the fort. In 1832, six of his sons came to Mill Creek Valley, to the Flesher farm opposite Ripley. Their names were Christopher, Benjamin, Michael, Samuel, Mathias and Peter. Chris, Sam and Ben were married, and lived at the different improvements on the farm, beginning at the upper end. Mathias was married, but had no children. Mike and Pete never married. The old farm is still in the hands of descendants of the Rhodes family. Chris Rhodes married Catherine Peters, of Lexington, Virginia. They came from near Natural Bridge to Wood County. Their children were: Ben Rhodes, married a Bradley. Peggy Rhodes, married a man named Rhodes. "Suckey" Rhodes, married Archie Thomas. Nancy Rhodes, married James Bradley. They had a son, Charles Bradley. Madeline Rhodes, married Absalom Harpold, son of John Harpold. Peter Rhodes, married Letha Bord, daughter of George Bord. Jacob Rhodes, married Linny Rollins, daughter of John Rollins. Mary Rhodes, married Watson Rollins, son of John Rollins. Ben Rhodes was twice married, but I did not learn the names of these wives. His children were: Peter Rhodes, went to California. Mathias Rhodes, married a Parsons. Joe Rhodes, lived on the old home farm. Ben Rhodes, married first Patty Parsons, who died, and he later married Hannah, daughter of John P. Parsons. John Rhodes, married a Hamilton. He died on Elk Fork in 1910 or 1911, aged eighty four years. Christopher Rhodes, married first Sarah Bowles, and later Mary Rollins, widow of John Rollins, whose maiden name was Straley. Mary Ann Rhodes, married a Hammond, and went west. Jane Rhodes, married a Smith and lived on Kentuck. Sam Rhodes married a Hammond, and lived on the Flesher farm at Ripley. D.D. Rhodes, married Prudence V. Casto, daughter of John R. Casto. She was born in 1836, and died in 1907. They had eight children. Sam Rhodes married Parthena Vandyne. She died about 1884, and he died several years earlier. Both are buried in the Roach graveyard, on Middle Fork of Reedy. John W. Rhodes was their oldest son. He was born Feb. 2nd, 1831, and died in June, 1902. He married Lucinda Parsons. She was born July 11th, 1832, and died June 1st, 1904. A family named Rhodes lived on Elk fork. Of these, there were: Chris Rhodes, born at the mouth of Billy's Run, in 1844. His children: John W. Rhodes, who married a daughter of Sam Rhodes. Alex Rhodes had a little water mill at the mouth of Haw Run. He married Malinda Eden. Solomon Rhodes. William Leeper Rhodes. His grandson was Jap Rhodes, of Buffalo. Archie Thomas, a noted preacher of Mill Creek Valley, also from Rockbridge County, Virginia. He married Betsey Rhodes, a daughter of Chris Rhodes. Daniel D. Rhodes was born in Warren County, New York, in 1817 and came to Cottageville in 1857. D.W. Rhodes, the miller, was his son. They were not related to the Mill Creek Rhodes.