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Descendants of Eli Rhoden

Generation No. 1

1. ELI¹ RHODEN was born Abt. 1824 in South Carolina, and died Aft. 1885 in Polk County, Texas. He married (1) HARRIETT ?. She was born Abt. 1826 in South Carolina, and died Abt. 1850 in South Carolina. He married (2) EUNICE CAROLINE BARTEE Abt. 1853 in South Carolina?, daughter of JESSE BARTEE and MELANAH ?. She was born December 22, 1834 in SC, and died July 24, 1901 in Polk County, Texas.

Notes for ELI RHODEN:
Re: Rhoden Brothers Legend
Posted by: Gerald F. Greene
Date: June 08, 2000
In Reply to: Rhoden Brothers Legend by Brenda Bond

The Rhoden(Roden)family in South Carolina, Florida, Tenn, Ala, Miss and Ga are all descended from an Ezekiah Raughton who came over on
the ship Bona Nova From England in 1619. He settled in the Jamestown colony and married a Margaret Rootes. Their descendants located to
the state of South Carolina where the surname spelling had many variations. It could be seen on legal documents and census records as
Wroten, Rotten, Roden, Rhoden, Wratten and many other ways. The immediate ancestor of the Ga Fl Rhodens was a William Rhoden(Roden) b
ca 1750 Barnwell District, SC. He married a Margaret Reynolds. Their two sons, John and Jacab who setted in Lowndes County Ga in the
1830-40s were pretty much responsible for the all the descendants who settled in Charlton County, Ga and Baker County, Fl. This family is
extensive and I have a very large data base. Get in touch if you are interested. Gerald Fletcher Greene. My wife is Peggy Marie Rhoden, ninth
genegeration great granddaughter of Ezekiah Raughton.

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Woodville Texas Aug 1, 1860 Census lists E Roden as 35 years of age, farmer, real estate valued at $1000, and estate of $250, born in SC, cannot read or write. Enumerated with his were Eun Bartee, Savanna Rhoden, Mary J. Rhoden, Samuel M Rhoden, J Rhoden C Rhoden.
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Notes for EUNICE CAROLINE BARTEE:

Menard Chapel Historic Marker
Texas Historic Commission
Menard Chapel Church, School, & Cemetery

"Michel B. Menard, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and his brother,
Pierre J., settled here in 1833. According to local tradition, sometime prior to 1854 the
Mt. Gileard Baptist Church built a small sanctuary here in Menard Chapel, a farm and
ranch community which developed along Menard Creek.
Shortly after the Civil War ended, Mrs. E. O. Rhoden donated two acres here for
church and school purposes. The Baptist Congregation constructed a new church building,
which for many decades served as a House of Worship as well as a schoolhouse for the
Menard Chapel School. Early teacher, A. A. Duff, also served as pastor. Another early
teacher, U. A. Collins, went on to serve Polk County as Texas State Senator. The school
was discontinued in 1935 when it was consolidated into the Livingston Independent School
District.
The cemetery was established with the burial of Rutha Nicholas in 1876. Church and
Cemetery acreage was set aside in a deed executed by Eli & Unity Rhoden in 1902. A new
Sanctuary, built here in the 1920's served as a place of worship until 1983. The cemetery is
maintained with Perpetual Care Funds by the Menard Chapel Cemetery Committee.
Veterans of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II are buried here.
(1993)
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Individual: Bartee, Eunice Caroline
Birth date: Dec 22, 1834
Birth place: SC
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MENARD'S CHAPEL, TEXAS. Menard's Chapel was near
Menard Creek and the Trinity River in southwestern Polk County. It
was established in 1833 by Pierre J. and Michel B. Menard,qqv who
were of French-Canadian origin and had worked in Kaskaskia, Illinois,
before moving to Texas. They established a gristmill on Menard Creek
in 1844. John Van Williams's land grant became the nucleus of the
settlement, and Henry W. Augustineqv was among the earliest settlers. A
post office known as Menard's Mill was established in 1838, but in
1862 the town name was changed to Menard's Chapel, when the
commissioners court designated it a voting place. A post office known
as Menard's Chapel operated from 1876 to 1877. The chapel from
which the town took its name was the Mount Gilead Baptist Church,
which had been organized in 1854; it was located near an old cowboy
campground at Menard Creek and the Indian Trace or Mexican Road,
which ran from Liberty to Nacogdoches. In 1887 the first teacher in the
town was certified. A combined school and church later served the area,
and in 1906 Menard's Chapel had four schools, with four teachers and
ninety-one pupils. The population of the community subsequently
declined, and it is likely that the Great Depressionqv caused many people
to move away. The town was not shown on the 1936 county highway
map.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Emma Haynes, The History of Polk County (MS,
Sam Houston Regional Library, Liberty, Texas, 1937; rev. ed. 1968). A
Pictorial History of Polk County, Texas, 1846-1910 (Livingston,
Texas: Polk County Bicentennial Commission, 1976; rev. ed. 1978).

Diana J. Kleiner
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KNIGHT, TEXAS. Knight is north of Farm Road 943 fifty-eight miles
northwest of Beaumont in south central Polk County. The farming
community grew up near the older settlement of Menard's Chapel and
was named after a local storekeeper, Charlie Knight, who served as the
first postmaster in 1889. Surrounded by dense forests, the area was
penetrated by a tram railroad from Camden, presumably built to allow
lumbermen access to the woodlands resources of south central Polk
County. Another post office, called Mack, was opened near Knight in
1905. The Mack post office, however, closed two years later. Knight's
population was estimated to be fifty in 1925, and most residents had left
the area by the early 1950s. The site of the community is just south of
the Big Sandy Creek and Menard Creek corridors of the Big Thicket
National Preserve.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: A Pictorial History of Polk County, Texas,
1846-1910 (Livingston, Texas: Polk County Bicentennial Commission,
1976; rev. ed. 1978). Fred I. Massengill, Texas Towns: Origin of
Name and Location of Each of the 2,148 Post Offices in Texas
(Terrell, Texas, 1936).

Robert Wooster

More About ELI RHODEN and EUNICE BARTEE:
Marriage: Abt. 1853, South Carolina?

Children of ELI RHODEN and HARRIETT ? are:

2.	i.		GEORGE OSCAR² RHODEN, SR., b. December 25, 1846, Edgefield, County, SC. Probably; d. March 26, 1905, Polk County, Texas.
	ii.		JOSEPH RHODEN, b. Abt. 1848, South Carolina; m. RHODA WATERS, January 16, 1867, Polk County, Texas; b. 1842, Mississippi.

Notes for JOSEPH RHODEN:
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Woodville Texas Aug 1, 1860 Census lists E Roden as 35 years of age, farmer, real estate valued at $1000, and estate of $250, born in SC, cannot read or write. Enumerated with his were Eun Bartee, Savanna Rhoden, Mary J. Rhoden, Samuel M Rhoden, J Rhoden C Rhoden.
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More About JOSEPH RHODEN and RHODA WATERS:
Marriage: January 16, 1867, Polk County, Texas

Children of ELI RHODEN and EUNICE BARTEE are:

iii.

JESSE² RHODEN, b. Abt. 1854, South Carolina; m. FANNIE WATERS, June 28, 1872, Polk County, Texas; b. Abt. 1856, Mississippi.

More About JESSE RHODEN and FANNIE WATERS:
Marriage: June 28, 1872, Polk County, Texas

	iv.	SAVANNA RHODEN, b. Abt. 1855, Alabama; d. Aft. 1880; m. WILLIAM WHITE.
3.	v.	MARY JANE (JENNIE) RHODEN, b. June 1858, Texas.
4.	vi.	SAMUEL M. RHODEN, b. January 1860, Texas; d. 1930, Polk County, Texas.
5.	vii.	ANNIE JOHANNA RHODEN, b. October 18, 1862, Texas; d. February 10, 1898, Big Sandy, Texas.
	viii.	THOMAS W. RHODEN, b. July 17, 1863; d. February 10, 1941, Polk County, Texas; m. (1) ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM, July 22, 1891; m. (2) ANN CATHERINE DAVIS, February 16, 1893; b. September 26, 1870; d. October 06, 1931.

More About THOMAS RHODEN and ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM:
Marriage: July 22, 1891

More About THOMAS RHODEN and ANN DAVIS:
Marriage: February 16, 1893

6.	ix.	DECATER ELI RHODEN, b. April 02, 1865; d. March 07, 1933, Polk County, Texas.
7.	x.	CHARLES H. RHODEN, b. October 07, 1867, Texas; d. April 18, 1922, Polk County, Texas.
	xi.	JOHN RHODEN, b. Abt. 1869; d. 1937; m. DELIA A. CHAMBLESS, January 03, 1889; b. May 09, 1870; d. July 09, 1926.

More About JOHN RHODEN and DELIA CHAMBLESS:
Marriage: January 03, 1889

xii.

CHARLCEY RHODEN, b. Abt. 1871; d. October 02, 1936, Polk County, Texas.

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