When Isaac Ellsworth Rhodes was born on 27 May 1862, in Fulton, Indiana, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Rhodes, was 46 and his mother, Susannah Good, was 39. He married Alice E. Fribley on 12 October 1886, in Marshall, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hoquiam Election Precinct, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States in 1940 and Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 26 March 1951, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Periods 1867: Chehalis, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Chehalis, Washington, United States 1915: Grays Harbor, Washington, United States
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English:
either a topographic name for someone who lived by ‘(the) woodland clearings’, plural form of Middle English rode (Old English rod, rodu), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named, principally Rhodes in Bury (Lancashire) or possibly from one of the many minor places in Yorkshire similarly named, or Rhodes Minnis (Kent). The Yorkshire name sometimes alternates with the singular form (see Rhode and Rode ). The Rh- spelling was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries by clerks with a classical education, who associated the name with the Greek island of Rhodes, famous in ancient history and mythology. There is also no connection with modern English road (Old English rād ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century. The surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and Lancashire but occurs with various spellings in smaller numbers widely across England.
variant of Rhode , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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