Jesse Rhodes (1800 - 1880)

Born Oct 1800 in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 20 Jul 1880 at age 79 in Henderson, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Jesse Rhodes helped in the development of Columbus in Polk County, N.C., by selling lots and laying out the streets for the city. He helped in the advertising and contracting to build the courthouse and jail. He was elected coroner No. 1 on March 11, 1867. In the 1870s, a business directory lists an establishment called the toll house operated by Jesse Rhodes. This was the toll house for travel on the Howard Gap Road. He owned land on the Howard Gap Road from the Melrose and Lynn area of Polk County to Saluda. "R. Irvine Allen, brother of Dr. T.A. Allen, the latter being the oldest male inhabitant of this county (Polk), and Jesse Rhodes were among the chain-bearers when the county lines were first surveyed." (from history of WNC)

Jesse Rhodes from Polk County was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of North Carolina in 1867. His wife Fidelia Adeline Williams died in 1846 and he re-married to Jane Thorne in 1851 in Henderson County. He lived in Polk County with his second wife through most of the 1870s. They moved to Henderson County to live with their son, Jesse Sherrill Rhodes, just a couple of years before he died.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BC-TC8 : Sun Mar 10 12:14:05 UTC 2024), Entry for Jesse Rhodes and Jane Rhodes, 1850.

• "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD6W-TBD : Sun Mar 10 03:10:23 UTC 2024), Entry for Jessee Rhoads and Jane Rhoads, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW8T-V5T : Tue Mar 05 08:29:04 UTC 2024), Entry for Jesse Rhodes and Jane Rhodes, 1870.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93621705/jesse-rhodes: accessed March 20, 2024), memorial page for Jesse Rhodes (Oct 1800–20 Jul 1880), Find a Grave Memorial ID 93621705, citing Mills River United Methodist Church, Mills River, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by Lisa Craig Arrowood (contributor 47301685).

• "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z7-3XBM : 17 March 2018), Jesse Rhodes, 1880; citing Henderson, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm .