Robert Roddy (1800)

Biography

Mr. Freeman married, June 16, 1860, Pamela Palmer, born in Staffordshire. England, April 20, 1844, daughter of John and Mary (Bishop) (Roddy) Palmer, both born in England. John and Mary Palmer came to the United States in 1851, bringing their daughter Pamela. They settled on a farm near Red Bank, Pennsylvania, but after about five years there, moved to Oakdale where John Palmer died in 1871, aged eighty-two years; his wife died in July, 1881, at age of eighty-two years. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, she of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mary Bishop was a widow at the time of her marriage to John Palmer. Her first husband, Robert Roddy, was a soldier under Lord Wellington, fought at the battle of Waterloo, losing a leg in that battle, and having eight brothers killed. He was also wounded in the head, but recovered. By Robert Roddy she had seven children, all of whom died in England except Mrs. Ann Winters who died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Pages 720-721 (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915)