Rhoda (Barnes) Hildreth (1764 - 1847)

Born 5 Mar 1764 in Granville, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Ephraim Hildreth — married 6 Oct 1783 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 16 Jan 1847 at age 82 in New Hampshire

Biography

Rhoda was born in 1764.

Rhoda and Ephraim Hildreth were married at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, on October 6, 1783. They had seven children, including Ephraim, Simeon, and Lucinda.^[1]

Rhoda died in 1847 and is buried in Center Haverhill Cemetery in New Hampshire.^[2]

Research note

FindAGrave and many Ancestry tree owners seem convinced that the Rhoda Barnes who was the daughter of Benjamin is the same Rhoda Barnes who married Ephraim Hildreth. I have connected this profile, which began as Ephraim's wife, to the father Benjamin. I did not find any records establishing the link, but I did not find any other Rhoda Barneses of the period who were suitable candidates for the wife. There was a Rhoda Barnes, born 1772, daughter of Amos, but she would not have married in 1783. Problems with the theory include mention in The Barnes Genealogy^[3] that Rhoda, daughter of Benjamin, died young. It seems possible that the author said she died young because he had not found records of her later life. I did not find a death or burial record for a Rhoda Barnes dying young. There is also the question of how Rhoda got from Massachusetts, where her family lived, to New Hampshire (a neighboring state), where her husband lived and where she married. One possibility might be that Ephraim had Hildreth relatives in Massachusetts whom he might have been visiting when he met Rhoda. - Kelts-7 16:18, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

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Sources

1. ↑ Hildreth, Dorothy; G. J. Hildreth; Darel A. Hildreth. Hildreth family record 1605-1976 : relating to the descendants of Richard Hildreth (1605-1693), freeman, 1643, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Massachusetts through the thirteenth generation of Hildreth families in Midwestern United States. Genealogy Committee of the Hildreth Family of the Midwestern United States, 1977. ExLibrisRosetta Page 196
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #64086476 Memorial includes grave stone photo.
3. ↑ Ancestors and Descendants of Capt. Benjamin Barnes and Charles Curtiss of Granville, Mass. 1636-1910 [“Curtiss-Barnes Genealogy”], Abel Tuttle Barnes, Sharon, Mass., 1911; copy in possession of Julie Kelts as of September 2021