WALKER COUNTY, GA - Bios  Madison E. Rhodes

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Madison E. Rhodes

Madison E. Rhodes was born 1813 in North
Carolina.  His parents and place of birth have
not been identified by the writer.   James
Alfred Sartain in his "History of Walker
County, Georgia" listed Madison Rhodes as an
"early settler" of Walker County. Sartain
noted early settlers as those arriving between
1833 (when Walker County was organized) and
1850. Sartain wrote that Madison Rhodes "grew
to manhood" within one and a half miles west
of LaFayette. 

Madison E. Rhodes appears on the 1840, 1850,
1860, 1870 and 1880 census reports of Walker
County.  He married Miriam Johnson.  (There
are some who believe Miriam's maiden name was
Caldwell).  Madison & Miriam had 9 children
(Drusilla, Georgiana, Richard, Jerome, Talula,
Carrie, Marvin, Carma, and Hosford). Madison
Rhodes reported his occupation as carpenter on
the 1870 census.  In the 1880 census, he is
shown as a farmer. 

He served as Tax Collector for Walker County
1860-62, and represented Walker County in the
state legislature 1865-66.  He introduced a
bill which became law and changed the southern
boundary of Walker County. He was paid $630
for 70 days of service in that session of the
General Assembly.  Rhodes was Justice of the
Inferior Court, Walker County, 1866-68,
Madison E. Rhodes was a charter member of
Masonic Western Lodge #91 and held several
offices in that organization. Madison E.
Rhodes died 1891 and is buried in Ringgold,
Catoosa County, Georgia. 

Submitted by 
Donna Warlick, 
ggg-granddaughter of Madison E. Rhodes