Fred Albert Rhodes

Brief Life History of Fred Albert

When Fred Albert Rhodes was born on 29 February 1892, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, his father, James Walter Rhodes, was 31 and his mother, Amanda Jane Evans, was 22. He married Sarah Lettie Cain Rhodes on 6 June 1917, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States in 1950 and Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 2000. He died on 20 April 1984, in Raymond, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Maize Cemetery, Maize, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Fred Albert Rhodes
1892–1984
Sarah Lettie Cain Rhodes
1895–1963
Marriage: 6 June 1917
Cleo Lettie Rhodes
1918–1990
Betty Jane Rhoades
1922–2016
John Winfred Rhodes
1926–1996

Sources (17)

  • Fred A Rhodes, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Fred A. Rhodes, "Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935"
  • Fred Albert Rhodes, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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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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