Ray County, Missouri Biographies - David B. Rhodes (b. 1828)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p. 740-741


DAVID B. RHODES

David B. Rhodes. The subject of this sketch was born in Rockingham county, Virginia in 1828.
He received his education in the common schools, and grew up in his native county. At the age
of eighteen years he learned the carpentering trade, and pursued that calling, constantly for
ten years afterwards. Mr. Rhodes was married in the year 1856, to Miss Sarah Zigler, a native
of Rockingham county, Virginia. In the year, 1858, he partly quit carpentering and engaged in
farming, which business he followed, in his native state until 1868. He then left Virginia,
and came to his present farm, (section 35, township 53, range 26), in Ray county, Missouri,
where he has ever since resided. He owns a neat place of ninety-six acres, of good land, well
watered by a running stream and spring. He has a comfortable residence, a conveniently arranged
barn, and a fine young orchard. He is engaged, also, in raising and feeding stock, chiefly
cattle. During the war, Mr. Rhodes was living in the ‘burnt district’ of the Shenandoah valley,
and in consequence, suffered considerable loss of property. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes became the
parents of eight children: Minnie, wife of Samuel A. Sandy; Emily F., wife of John Vantrump;
Laura A., wife of Samuel K. Rhodes; Lizzie A., wife of Samuel Hogan; John M; Sydney A.;
Jacob S. and Iva May. Both Mr. Rhodes and wife, with three of their daughters, are members of
the German Baptist Church.

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