Rhoda (Walton) Rowlison (1843 - 1932)

Born 14 Sep 1843 in Deputy, Jefferson, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Demetris Rowlison — married 23 Nov 1865 (to 1890) in Jefferson, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Mar 1932 at age 88 in Clay Center, Clay, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

Rhoda is the daughter of Isaiah and Eliza Jane (Hall) Walton. Rhoda married James Rowlison. They had many children. She is buried in Clay County, Nebraska. ^[1]

Rhoda married James Rowlison in 1865. They had at least eleven children, born between 1866 and 1888. She died, aged 88, on 24 March 1932 in Clay Center, Nebraska, and is buried in Ong Cemetery, Clay County, Nebraska. ^[2]

Rhoda Walton corresponded with James Rowlison while he was in the Civil War. They were married on 22 Nov 1865 and left with one son in the winter or early spring of '66 to '67 traveling by riverboats (3) to Hannibal, Missouri and overland to a farm southeast of Kirksville. Four more children were born there. They moved to a farm near Moulton, Iowa in 1864 where Martha Ann was born. The lived on "Peru Bottom" near Peru, Nebraska for about three years - Myrtle Amy was born. Then onto four farms around Edgar, Nebraska where James, Roy, and Mabel were born. They sold out in November 1886 except for a team and a wagon, then to Grand Island, Nebraska to the State G.A.R. Convention and onto a homestead west of Hoxie, Kansas. Ethel was born in a sod house on the homestead in November 1888. James Demetris Rowlison died in Aug 1890 leaving Rhoda with a family of small children. She was a 19th century single mother for years. Her children later looked after her, to the extent that was necessary. She later returned to Clay County, Nebraska and lived with her eleventh child, sixth and youngest daughter Ethel Aletha until she died in 1932.

1850 U.S. Census for Indiana, Jefferson, Graham, Page 8, Line 14.

1860 U.S. Census for Indiana, Jefferson, Graham, Page 147, Line 21.

1870 U.S. Census for Missouri, Adair, Township 62 Range 15, Page 5, Line 24.

1880 U.S. Census for Nebraska, Nuckolls, Sherman, Page 5, Line 8.

1900 U.S. Census for Kansas, Sheridan, Kenneth, District 0158, Page 4, Line 58.

1910 U.S. Census for Kansas, Ellis, Hayes Ward 1, District 0019, Page 4B, Line 70.

1920 U.S. Census for Nebraska, Clay, Logan, Page 2b, Line 66.

1930 U.S. Census for Nebraska, Clay, Clay Center, Page 2B, Line 52.

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com Family Trees (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:STFC-NK6)
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #46958639

• [3] "Family Tree" database and images, FamilySearch.org, ID 2Z34-QYD. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/vitals/2Z34-QYD

• [4] "Find a Grave" database and images, FindaGrave.com, Memorial ID 46958639. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46958639/rhoda-rowlison

• [5] "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8YJ-HNC : 14 January 2022), Rhoda Rowlison in household of James Rowlison, Sherman Township, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .