Samuel Rhoades and Margaret M. Cannon

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Husband Samuel Rhoades ¹

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           Born:  - Genesee valley, Livingston Co, NY
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Jul 1860 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA

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         Father: Samuel Rhoades (Abt 1777-1841) 1
         Mother: Margaret H. Holeman (Abt 1784-1818) 1 2

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Margaret M. Cannon ¹

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           Born: Abt 1814 - Columbiana Co, OH
     Christened: 
           Died: 1884 1
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: John Cannon (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Samuel A. Rhoades ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1919 - White River, Mellette Co, SD
         Buried: 

         Spouse: [Unk] Bowman (      -      ) 1

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2 M John C. Rhoades ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1919 - Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO
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3 M Lyman D. Rhoades ¹

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           Born: Jun 1846 - Conneaut Lake, Crawford Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1933
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Eliza B. Pennell (1855-1944) 3

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4 F Hortensia J. Rhoades ¹

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         Spouse: A. F. McCray (      -      ) 1

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5 F Anna Murrell Rhoades ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1919
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         Spouse: James Webber (      -Bef 1919) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Rhoades

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In his active and varied life he did some important contract work in several parts of the country, being so engaged during the better part of his business career. One of his first undertakings in that line was the construction of a mile of the Bellefonte and Erie pike. Conneaut Lake was developed from a swamp as a feeder to the Erie extension canal by him; in 1852 he built a part of the Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad (originally the Ohio & Pennsylvania road); he built part of the old Allegheny Valley railroad (later included in the Pennsylvania System); a bridge across the Allegheny at Kittanning; and from there went South to lay part of the Iron Mountain railroad in Missouri and Arkansas. His next work was in Mississippi, where he constructed the levee at Carmacks steamboat landing in Issaquena County, and where he was attacked by the illness which caused his death. He employed many men and managed his extensive business interests most successfully. Like the family generally, he was associated with the Presbyterian Church, and he was a Republican in political sentiment.
He died in the “Girard House,” Third and Smithfield streets, Pittsburgh, PA.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 829.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 368.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 830.