Henry Rhoads Bible Record

Contributed by Dorann O'Neal Lam

Source: Laurel Messenger of the Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County, PA, Box 533, Somerset, PA, November 1972, page 6. Article “Rhoads” from the Florence Dibert Records. Copied from an old record held by Rhoads family in California with spelling as written.

“Rhoads”

Henry Rhoads wifes birthday and family

“Was Born”

“April 19, 1795. This day wen this retin. We was mared 34 years, 6 month by me Henry Rhoads and my Elizabetha beloved companion on the bans of Green River in Logan County Kantocki.

3 sons mared and 3 - three darthers and 2, 20 gran childrin

My wife deceased, October 2, 1807.

Married again 9 of February 1808.”

(signed) Henry Rhoads

End of record; Article continues:

The father of the above Henry Rhoads, who was Henry Rhoads Senior, settled in Somerset County. He was granted land by John Penn in 1773. Henry Jr., married Elizabeth Stoner in Maryland about 1760. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. DAR Patriot Index says he died May 6, 1814 and that his second wife was Barbara Lauriman.