Isaac Elsworth Rhodes

Brief Life History of Isaac Elsworth

When Isaac Elsworth Rhodes was born in 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 Wishkah, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States in 1930 and Hoquiam Election Precinct, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States in 1940. 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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Family Time Line

Isaac Elsworth Rhodes
1862–1951
Alice E. Fribley
1869–1943
Marriage: 12 October 1886
Leroy Ellsworth Rhodes
1887–1957
Ethel May Rhodes
1889–1972
Omar Everett Rhodes
1891–1965
Estella Mabel Rhodes
1893–1963
Isaac Earl Rhodes
1896–1981
Era Leonard Rhodes
1900–1954
Eva C Rhodes
1900–
Ruth E. Rhodes
1902–1964

Sources (20)

  • Isaac E Rhodes in household of Jefferson Rhodes, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Isaac E Rhodes, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Isaac E. Rhodes, "Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1882

Historical Boundaries 1882: Chehalis, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Chehalis, Washington, United States 1915: Grays Harbor, Washington, United States

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

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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