- My Great Great Grandfather David (178 KB)
Great Great Grandfather David Schaeffer 1827-1898-CanalBoatman-Schuylkill Canal - Grandmother Dora (228 KB)
My Grandmother Dora (Compton) Odum 1886-1919 - Grandfather Harry (98 KB)
Grandfather Harry Hoffman Rhoads 1874-1945-Fluesetter on Locomotive Boilers-Reading RR - Grandmother Amanda (102 KB)
My Grandmother Amanda Irene (Schaeffer)Rhoads 1878-1960 - My Great Great Grandfather Jeff (121 KB)
Great Great Grandfather Jefferson Brooks Williams - 1823-1894 Smokey Valley ,Carter County,KY-CSA -Rode with Morgan's Raiders - My Great Grandmother Katherine (160 KB)
Katherine (Staller) Schaeffer 1856-1939 - The Odums of Granite City ,IL ca 1910 (374 KB)
My Odum ancestors in Granite City- Great Grandfather Jeremiah Odum with police badge, Grandfather William Joel Odum - middle row left,Great Grandmother Etta Ora (Griffith) Odum to left of Jeremiah and Grandmother Dora (Compton) Odum to right of Jeremiah -all middle rowJeremiah 1856-1929Etta 1865-1940William J. 1884-1953Dora 1886-1919Here is actual listingTop row-Left to right-Otis Odum and wife, Bill Pesold,Eva Odum Pesold,Alva Odum and wife Vina, Terence ?(friend)2d row- William Joel Odum,Etta Odum,Jeremiah Odum,Dora Compton OdumBottom row- Ernest Duncan, Grace Odum Duncan, Olva Raymond Odum, Pearl ? - My Great Grandfather Charles (153 KB)
Charles Samuel Schaeffer 1854-1928 - Immediate Family of Rod Rhoads- 25 years ago (234 KB)
My Rhoads/Odum immediate family members in the 70's. Rod is on extreme right of picture. In keeping with my policy of not commenting on living persons other than myself I will not name them here - The Old Home Place as I remember it (294 KB)
All of these were at the old home place when I was going there as a small child. My Great Grandfather's house in background. He had been Canal Dredge Foreman until his death. - Great Grandmother Nancy Jane (143 KB)
Great Grandmother Nancy Jane (Williams) Compton -KY 1842-1914 - My Marine shipmates USS Forrestal 52 years after (173 KB)
A reunion of Forrestal Marines 52 years after last seeing each other. Myself with white beards in back row. - My Wife's Grandmother-Bertha Mathilda Lenander (126 KB)
Bertha Mathilda (Anderson)Lenander - My Great Uncle Dave and my Grandfather Harry (159 KB)
David Christian Schaeffer 1880-1938 on left-Grandfather Harry Rhoads on right - My Great Grandfather Henry- P&R RR Shops (181 KB)
Henry Sassaman Rhoads 1846-1903 -In Bowler Hat in P&R RR Shops-Top Machinist in Locomotive Shop - Sgt.Jeremiah Odum-Granite City ,IL Police Dept (10 KB)
My Great Grandfather -died on the job while collaring a perp - My wife's Great Grandparents Anderson (144 KB)
Amanda (Olson)Anderson & Gustav Anderson in Stockholm - Original gravestone of my grgrgrgrgrandfather (50 KB)
Original stone of my ancestor Philip (Buckspike) Williams 1753-1848 - Jeremiah Odum-Mounted Police (356 KB)
My Great Grandfather on left-1904-Granite City,IL - My wife's Grandfather- Adolph Lenander (159 KB)
Adolph Lenander in Stockholm - New Memorial Stone for Philip Williams (228 KB)
Placing of new memorial for my ancestor Philip (Buckspike) Williams-Red Bush,KY - GreatGrandfather Jerry Odum-1924 (87 KB)
Crimestoppers-1924-The Roaring 20's - Mybrother Terry (Terence William Odum) in Navy (33 KB)
Served on Submarine Tender -Vietnam Conflict - Rod Rhoads in Coal Mining Days (248 KB)
Rod ,third from left,at Crystal Block Mine, on the Blackberry above Matewan, W.VA - Four generations of Odums (105 KB)
Top left:Gr Grandfather Jeremiah; Top right: Grandfather William J.;bottom left:Father William R.;bottom right:myself - Rodney Rhoads as Marine -Korean War (137 KB)
I am preparing fuses for 155mm Artillary here- June 1953
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