TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Rhodes, John W.

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Death Claims Another Veteran

Mr. John W. Rhodes, a life long citizen of Taylor
County, and who had been in feeble health for a long
while, died at the State sanitarium last Saturday
morning about 6 o'clock.  His son, Mr. Cliff Rhodes,
who had been summoned by wire, to his father's
bedside, arrived just a short while after his father
had passed away, and who accompanied the remains to
Butler, arrived Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Rhodes was about 71 years of age, having been born
in Taylor county of Christian parentage; his father,
Rev. A.M. Rhodes, a Missionary Baptist minister, while
his mother was a consecrated member of the Methodist
church.  So that he was brought up under a strong
religious influence, and while he never connected
himself with any branch of the Christian church, yet
he professed a saving knowledge of the truth as it is
in Jesus Christ, and avowed his readiness and
willingness to die.

Mr. Rhodes was a good citizen honorable and upright in
his dealings, very kind and obliging as a neighbor,
one whose heart was touched by the misfortunes of
others and who ever responded to their need.  He loved
his fellow-man, which is a crowning virtue in a
person's life. 

He enlisted in the confederate service with 2nd Va.
Batalion, June 1864, at Atlanta, and was honorable
discharged at Macon June 1865.  He married Miss Fannie
Caldwell, by whome was born unto them the following
children; who survive the death of their parents.  One
son, Mr. Cliff Rhodes, Mrs. Mae Fountain, Mrs. Lodie
Chapman, of Albany, Mrs. Eunice Smith, of Manchester,
Mrs. Myrtle Jones and Mrs. Eva Royal, of Reynolds, and
Miss Ruby Rhodes, of Atlanta.  He is also survived by
two sisters, Mrs. C.M. Bartlett and Miss Mollie
Rhodes, of Butler.

His remains were laid to rest by those of his beloved
wife, who preceded him a few years ago, in the Bethel
cemetery, the service led by his life long friend,
Rev. J. T. Adams, assisted by Rev. H. O. Fowler.
Talks were also made by Messrs A. J. McGee and A. S.
Wallace, comrades of the deceased in the Confederate
army. 

NOTE: John Worth Rhodes

John Worth Taylor Rhodes (1846-1918) m. Frances Greene
Caldwell on November 18, 1869.  He was a Civil War veteran
and farmed land on the Butler level.  He donated the land
where the Rhodes schoolhouse was built. They had ten
children:  William Edwin, Sarah Elizabeth (Adams), Mollie
May (Fountain), Mary Saludy (Chapman), Eunice Belle (Smith),
Yelverton Henry Eugene, Absalom Morgan Clifton, Alice
Valeria Myrtle (Jones),  Eva Laverne (Royal), Ruby Elizabeth
(Royeton).