When Jesse C. Rhodes was born on 11 April 1829, in Shelby, Indiana, United States, his father, John Rhoads, was 29 and his mother, Perline Hodges, was 21. He married Cornelia Jane Nigh on 27 September 1849. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Marion, Marion Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Marion Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 7 October 1900, in Shelbyville, Addison Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Shelbyville, Addison Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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.
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