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Descendants of Eli Rhoden

Generation No. 2

2. GEORGE OSCAR² RHODEN, SR. (ELI¹) was born December 25, 1846 in Edgefield, County, SC. Probably, and died March 26, 1905 in Polk County, Texas. He married (1) NANCY L. MURPHY. She was born Abt. 1846 in Mississippi. He married (2) ARTISSA FRANCIS HALL WILSON May 26, 1881 in Polk County, Texas, daughter of SAMUEL WILSON and EMILY WHEELER. She was born April 09, 1848 in Copiah County, Mississippi, and died November 10, 1907 in Polk County, Texas.

Notes for GEORGE OSCAR RHODEN, SR.:

5. GEORGE OSCAR3 RHODEN, JR. (GEORGE OSCAR2, ELI1) was born February 19,
1882 in Polk County, Texas, and died February 03, 1967 in Houston, Texas. He
married MARY VIOLA VESTAL February 25, 1906 in Woodville, Tyler County,
Texas, daughter of SELMAN BALCH VESTAL and DOLLIE A. MOORE.

Notes for GEORGE OSCAR RHODEN, JR.:

Although he lived in Polk County all of his life, during his final illness he
lived with his daughter, Daisy, and his wife, Viola, in a house that Daisy
rented temporarily in Houston, which was closer to the hospital where he was
being treated. Viola, his wife, died several years later in a nursing home
in Livingston, preceded in death by her daughter, Daisy, who also died in
Livingston.

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CAMP RUBY, TEXAS. Camp Ruby, also known as Ruby, is on
Farm Road 1276 sixty-five miles northwest of Beaumont in south central
Polk County. A community was established at the site before the Civil
War;qv by 1880 residents referred to it as Old Hope. A temporary post
office, named Rhoden, was opened in the summer of 1880. Another
post office, called Charity, was in operation from 1896 to 1911. The site
was renamed Camp Ruby when the W. T. Carter and Brother Lumber
Company established a logging camp there in 1926. According to local
lore, A. B. Clayton was sent to select a good site; having chosen the
heavily wooded area of Old Hope, Clayton renamed it after an
acquaintance named Ruby Moore. The location became a major logging
camp for the Carter sawmills. A tram line linked Camp Ruby to
Camden, which lay on the Moscow, Camden and San Augustine
Railroad. As the timber around Camp Ruby was cut out, the Carter
Lumber Company shifted logging operations to other areas. Camp
Ruby's population thus dwindled to about twenty-five by the early
1940s. The completion of U.S. Highway 190 led many of the residents
to move two miles west to a community called New Camp Ruby on the
highway. The Camp Ruby oil field, discovered in the mid-1960s, has
yielded moderate amounts of oil and natural gas, and additional
discoveries were made in the early 1980s. Camp Ruby's voting box was
restored on May 26, 1969. In 1990 the population was thirty-five.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: History of Polk County (2 vols., Livingston, Texas:
Keen Printing, 1968). A Pictorial History of Polk County, Texas,
1846-1910 (Livingston, Texas: Polk County Bicentennial Commission,
1976; rev. ed. 1978).

Robert Wooster

Notes for ARTISSA FRANCIS HALL WILSON:
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Moved from Mississippi with her two orphaned sons, Dulah Hall and his younger brother, James Hall. She and her two sons and her parents had moved from Meridian, Mississippi to the Camp Ruby area.

More About GEORGE RHODEN and ARTISSA WILSON:
Marriage: May 26, 1881, Polk County, Texas

Children of GEORGE RHODEN and NANCY MURPHY are:

9.	i.	EMMA FRANCES³ RHODEN, b. December 29, 1873; d. July 21, 1952.
10.	ii.	IDA RHODEN, b. 1880; d. 1962.
	iii.	JOE RHODEN.

Notes for JOE RHODEN:
Rhoden, Alma 4-13-1931 F Ellen Higgins Joe Rhoden
DOB Mother Father

iv.

MARY JANE RHODEN, b. June 1870, Polk County, Texas; d. September 1870, Polk County, Texas.

Notes for MARY JANE RHODEN:

1 8 7 0 M O R T A L I T Y S C H E D U L E POLK COUNTY, TEXAS

born died Cause of Death
Rhoden, Mary Jane 6/12 F W . TX Sep . Cause Unknown

Children of GEORGE RHODEN and ARTISSA WILSON are:

11.	v.	GEORGE OSCAR³ RHODEN, JR., b. February 19, 1882, Polk County, Texas; d. February 03, 1967, Polk County, Texas.
12.	vi.	ANNIE RHODEN, b. May 1886.
13.	vii.	WILLIE OBEDIAH RHODEN, b. March 09, 1888, Charity, Polk County, Texas; d. December 10, 1941, Polk County, Texas.

3. MARY JANE (JENNIE)² RHODEN (ELI¹) was born June 1858 in Texas. She married JOHN W. KENT December 25, 1878 in Polk County, Texas, son of JOSEPH STEVEN KENT. He was born November 1852 in Louisiana, and died Aft. 1900.

More About JOHN KENT and MARY RHODEN:
Marriage 1: December 25, 1878, Polk County, Texas
Marriage 2: December 25, 1879

Children of MARY RHODEN and JOHN KENT are:

	i.		RACHEL³ KENT, b. November 1882.
	ii.		WILLIAM T. KENT, b. April 1886.
	iii.		GEORGE N. KENT, b. March 1891.
	iv.		LULA KENT, b. August 1893.
	v.		EARL KENT, b. November 1894.
	vi.		ARBATHA KENT, b. December 1895.

4. SAMUEL M.² RHODEN (ELI¹) was born January 1860 in Texas, and died 1930 in Polk County, Texas. He married LAURA BELL GRAY December 23, 1880 in Polk County, Texas, daughter of JOSEPH GRAY and LUCRETIA KENT. She was born April 08, 1867, and died July 27, 1938.

Notes for SAMUEL M. RHODEN:
In addition to Oscar RHODEN, Sr., Eli RHODEN had other children for after his arrival in Polk County he met and married Eunice BARTEE. [Probably were really married in South Carolina. Eunice (Unity) is with her parents in S.C. for the 1850 census. The 1860 Tyler Co., Tx. census shows Eli and Eunice married, their children ages 6 and 5 born in S.C., 3 and 10 months born in Texas; Eli�s children from previous marriage, ages 15 and 13 born in S.C. The 1870 census shows them in Polk Co.] They became the parents of ten children: Those who lived in Polk County for many years were: Dick, Tom, Sam, Charley, Charlise, Annie, Jennie and Savanna.

Dick RHODEN married Mary MOYE of Dollardsville and they had six boys. The later lived in Magnolia and Livingston before moving to Houston. They were of the Baptist faith and both are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery at Livingston.

Tom RHODEN married Catherine DAVIS of Big Sandy community and was a farmer. Sam RHODEN married Bell GRAY and they had a daughter who married Mark HATHAWAY of Hathaway Farms near Soda in 1963. Charley RHODEN married Lucindy CHAMBLESS, a sister of Clara CHAMBLESS and an account of this family is given with the CHAMBLESS family.

Notes for LAURA BELL GRAY:
Received in an E-mail from Johnnie Mae Findley 2/1/2001

"We have been busy since we got back from the valley last week end. I don' t remember a lot about Sam Rhoden. I was about five or six when he died. I remember that he took all the kids to the creek to swim. We were probably in ankle deep water, but we thought we were swimming. Sis said he had an old truck that he took us in. Grandma stayed with different ones after he died. I can remember she made great chicken and dumplins. I always asked her to make dumplins. Sis said grandma taught her to piece and quilt. Grandma and Mama , used cotton bats to do cotton for mattresses. Sis said there was cotton on one side and feathers on the other side. Slept on feather side in winter and cotton side in summer. "

More About SAMUEL RHODEN and LAURA GRAY:
Marriage: December 23, 1880, Polk County, Texas

Children of SAMUEL RHODEN and LAURA GRAY are:

	i.		WILLIE (AUNT BEN )³ RHODEN, b. September 22, 1882; d. May 22, 1926; m. GUY STONE.
	ii.		JESSE RHODEN, b. January 07, 1885; d. July 25, 1908.

Notes for JESSE RHODEN:
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Killed in a logging train accident in 1908. Never married.

14.	iii.	HACK RHODEN, b. November 09, 1886; d. November 29, 1943.
	iv.	SALLY RHODEN, b. August 12, 1888; d. October 06, 1890.
15.	v.	SIDDIE RHODEN, b. September 20, 1890, Polk County, TX; d. January 08, 1978, Vidor, TX.
	vi.	EMMA RHODEN, b. April 24, 1892; d. July 23, 1893.
16.	vii.	LENA RHODEN, b. June 06, 1894; d. July 1979.
17.	viii.	MACK RHODEN, b. August 10, 1897; d. January 20, 1989, Goodrich, Polk County, Texas.
18.	ix.	EUNICE CAROLINE RHODEN, b. October 12, 1899; d. March 02, 1973.
19.	x.	WILLIAM KIRBY RHODEN, b. August 15, 1901.
20.	xi.	ROLAND RHODEN, b. July 27, 1903; d. March 21, 1979, League City, Galveston County, Texas.
21.	xii.	TOMMY MAE RHODEN, b. May 31, 1905; d. August 1963.
22.	xiii.	PEARLY LEE RHODEN, b. November 25, 1907; d. January 30, 1978.

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