Viola Belle (Staples) Rodick (1903 - 1985)

Born 27 Jan 1903 in Tremont, Hancock, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Alfred Elmer Rodick — married 24 Jun 1924 in Bar Harbor, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 25 Apr 1985 at age 82 in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, United States

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Descendant of Myles Standish.

Descendant of John Alden.

Descendant of Richard Warren.

Descendant of Henry Samson.

Biography

Viola Belle was born in 1903. She was the daughter of Amos William Staples and Isabelle Hannah Joyce. She passed away in 1985.

Census of Bar Harbor, Maine 1940

• Alfred E Rodick Head Male 41 Maine
• Viola Rodick Wife Female 37 Maine
• Alfred Rodick Son Male 15 Maine
• Francis Rodick Daughter Female 13 Maine
• Ruth Rodick Daughter Female 12 Maine
• Viva Rodick Daughter Female 10 Maine
• Benjamin Rodick Son Male 9 Maine
• Mary Rodick Daughter Female 4 Maine
• Jeanette Rodick Daughter Female 1 Maine
• Amos Staples Father-in-law Male 72 Maine

There were 7 children

• i.Alfred E. Rodick Jr. .
• ii.Frances L. Rodick Gray lived at Northeast Harbor
• iii.Ruth M. Rodick Keyes
• iv.Viva G. Rodick Wilson 1929-2018 Lived in New York. Several children did not live in Maine
• v.Mary E. Rodick McFarland lived at Ellsworth
• vi.Jeanette Rodick Lanzillo lived in Massachusetts.
• vii.Benjamin Amos Rodick 1931-2015 left Maine following high school. Raised a family in Connecticut

By 2018, only the two surviving siblings were the ones who stayed in dear old Hancock County, Maine.

Sources

• "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCDP-JW7 : 16 December 2020), Viola Belle Staples, 27 Jan 1903; citing Tremont, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
• "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCNB-WPZ : 27 November 2014), Alfred E Roderick and Viola B Staples, 24 Jun 1924; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMMD-3B2 : 5 January 2021), Viola Rodick in household of Alfred E Rodick, Bar Harbor, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-4, sheet 10B, line 51, family 216, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1479.
• Ancestry.com. Maine, U.S., Death Index, 1960-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.

Original data: State of Maine. Maine Death Index, 1960-97. Augusta, ME, USA: State of Maine Department of Human Services. http://www.swansisland.org/swansgenealogy/JamesJoyce/b3406.htm#P3406

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99069010/viola-belle-rodick