Hello, my name is Barbara. As the creator of this wiki, All RHOADES Lead Home, I would like to welcome you to our research team! I have been researching the RHOADES family lines for over forty years now, but I still have many blanks. I would like to find others researching the RHOADES family and our collateral lines.
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The main focus of our research has been these two generations and their descendants. We have data on many of their ancestors, but would enjoy researching with others.
Henry Alvin Rhoades was born 20 Aug 1882 in Mercer, Mercer Co., MO to Richard Alvin Rhoades and Chloa Melvina Leasure. Frances Mary Wright was born 24 Feb 1891 in Topsy, Mercer Co., MO to Marion Francis Wright and Gabriella Amizette Michael. Wright-Michael Henry and "Fanny" had eighteen children: Claude Shelby, Leeta Mae, Wilvia Faye, Ira Everett, Clifford, Eleanor Melvina, Wayne Alvin, James Urcel, Floyd Willard, Frances Ruth, Max Floy, Coda Ray, Cecil Clyde, Wanda Irene, Naurene June, Elizabeth Viola, Jean, and Jackie Don.
Richard Alvin was born in Mercer, Mercer Co., MO to Faunt LeRoy "Phantley" Rhoades and Sarah Elizabeth "Sadie" Stice. Richard was married three times. His first wife was Yerrina Frances "Rena" Garrett, daughter of Joel Garrett and Anna Eliza Garrett (first cousins). Garrett-Garrett Richard and Rena were married 02 July 1867 in Menard Co., IL and had six children. Mary Elizabeth (died under two years of age), Saphronia Agnes (lived to be 109 years of age, married Franseway Franklin Leasure and George Thomas Kitchen), Lila Isabell (married Stephen David Ackles and died in WA), Albert (married Eva Ellen Fisher and died in MO), and the stillborn twins, Irene and Chloe. Rena died in childbirth of the twins and is buried in Kilbourne Cemetery, Kilbourne, Mason Co., IL.
Richard married second to Chloa Melvina Leasure, daughter of John L. Leasure and Martha Jane Niccum on 21 July 1882 in Mercer Co., MO. Leasure-Niccum They had five children: Henry Alvin (above), Dora Jane (married Lewis Sylvestor Donelson), Leeta Mae (married Joseph Franklin Todd), Levi Everett (married Ellen Leona Brassfield and died in MO), Homer Clellan (married Goldie Mantlo and died in MO).

The third wife of Richard was Gabriella Amizette Michael "Gay", daughter of Andrew Michael and Matilda Feriday Kesterson. Michael-Kesterson Richard and Gay had two daughters, Stella Odessa (married Harley Sampson McKern and is living at 102 years of age) and Opalean Iva (married Raymond C. Coon and John Wendell Peters). Gay had first married Marion Francis Wright, a traveling businessman. They had two daughters, Frances Mary (above) and Maude (believed to have died in infancy). Gay married second to John Wesley Jones and had three children: Catheryn Ann "Kate" (married Marion Summers, Roscoe Charles Hill and Joseph Valdrez), Chloa Tilda "Tillie" (married Byron Russell) and Cecil Cumberland "Jack" (married Irene E. Coin). We found one census which shows we are still missing one child born to Gay, but we do not know which of the three husbands was the father. After the death of Richard, Gay married John R. Hardman and a Mr. Tague.
Richard Alvin Rhoades is buried in the Harris/Odneal Cemetery, near Harris, Sullivan Co., MO with his second wife, Chloa Leasure on one side and his third wife, Gay Tague on the other side. There was a small marker for Mary Elizabeth Rhoades nearby when I visited in the early 1980's, but it no longer exists. Harris Cemetery