Biography of Thomas Franklin Rodden, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Thomas Franklin Rodden, farmer of Sebastian County, Ark., and native of North
Carolina, was born in 1826,  and is a son of Spencer H. and Elizabeth (Hill)
Rodden. The father was born in the “Palmetto” State (S. C.) June  7, 1799, and
afterward moved to Tennessee, locating first in Monroe County, thence to McMinn
County. His  wife was born in Virginia December 15, 1805, and died in Sebastian
County, Ark., in 1880. Thomas was only  an infant when his parents moved to
Tennessee, and he was there reared to manhood and married, the latter  event
taking place in 1846. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary C. Morris, was born
in 1820, and became  the mother of nine children: Eliza Jane (born February 20,
1847, married Andy M. Cameron), James S. (born  October 10, 1848, died March
27, 1849), Elisha F. (born June 12, 1854, died February 6, 1855), George W.,
John B., William M., Thomas M., Joseph M., Andrew J., Winnie Berthena
(deceased), Mary Jane and Alice.  Mrs. Eliza Cameron left two sons at her death
in 1872: James F. and Archibald W. George W. is married, and is  the father of
five children: Cornelius, Mary A., Thomas, Louella and Tennessee. John B. has
also five children:  Amanda, Eliza, Emma, Thomas and Rosa. William M. has four
children: Franklin, Ora J., Charles C. and an  infant. Thomas M. has one child,
Frederick C., and Andrew J. also has one child, Bertha. Joseph M. is married
and has two children. After his marriage Mr. Rodden located in Polk County,
Tenn., and in 1850 moved to Cherokee County, N. C., where he resided twelve
years, and again returned to Tennessee. In 1867 he came to  Arkansas, and the
following year purchased 160 acres of land in Sebastian County, on which he is
now residing.  He and wife have been members of the Missionary Baptist Church
for the past forty years, and he has been deacon for eighteen years. He is a
good citizen and an accommodating and obliging neighbor. In 1862 he  enlisted
in Company H, Twenty-ninth Regiment North Carolina Infantry, and was orderly-
sergeant of his  company. He is a Democrat in politics.