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"John Rodes of Hanover County, Virginia, born 1697, was the earliest of the name of Rodes in Virginia. He married a Miss Crawford, born 1703. They had four sons and two daughters. David, whose son, Matthew, was the father of Gen. David Rodes and grandfather of Maj. Gen. Robert Rodes, who fell in a battle near Winchester, Virginia, and was highly esteemed by Gen. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. John, born 1729, married Sallie Harris. Their children were Sarah Harris, married Micajah Woods; Tyree; Mary, Annie, married John Garth; Henrietta, married Bernice Brown; Judge Robert Rodes, married Eliza Dulaney of Madison County, Kentucky, children: Elizabeth, married Wallace Estill; Mary, married James Estill; John, Col. William Rodes of Madison County, Kentucky, married Miss Clay; Col. Clifton Rodes of Danville, Kentucky, who left three children (Judge Robert Rodes of Bowling Green, Kentucky); Charles H. Rodes, Internal Revenue Collector, Danville, Kentucky; and Sallie, who married Mr. Tutt); Nancy, married Samuel Stone, father of the late Robert Rodes Stone of Lexington, Kentucky; and Sallie Harris Rodes, married Dr. A. W. Rollins, whose son, Maj. Gen. James Rollins of Columbia, Missouri, had a family of eleven children. Charles settled in Nelson County, Virginia, and some of his descendants own his old homestead. Clifton emigrated to Kentucky and settled in Fayette County on what is known as David's Fork. He married Miss Sarah Waller, fourth daughter of John and Agnes Carr Waller. This John Waller of Pamunky R., Berkley Parish, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, married, 1730, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Carr of Bear Castle; whose wife was a Dabney. Clifton and Sarah Waller Rodes had Agnes, married a Boone; Henrietta, married Joseph Rogers; a third daughter married James Rogers; Dorothy, married David Kerr; John, married Jane Burch; Mary, married Joseph Burch; Waller, married his cousin, Elizabeth Thompson (who after his death married Gabriel Slaughter, at one time a governor of Kentucky.) Waller Rodes and his wife Elizabeth Thompson, had only one child, Col. William Rodes of Fayette County, who married first, Sarah Waller Burch (a cousin), by whom he had one son, Joseph Waller Rodes, who married Miss Sarah E. Marshall. He left two sons, both residents of Lexington, Kentucky; J. Waller Rodes, cashier of the Phoenix National Bank; and Dr. William Rodes; married second, Margaret Todd, by whom he had one son, Levi Todd Rodes, who married Miss Mary Martin. Mary Rodes married William Smith, and she bore him nine children: Dan, married a Parker; Garland; William; Rodes; a daughter, married a Dudley; another daughter who married a Ferguson; Clifton; and Nelson, married Sallie Kerr, daughter of Dorothy Rodes Kerr, whose son, Mr. Sydney Smith, lives now in Lexington, Kentucky, and is a well-preserved gentleman of more than fourscore years and ten. One daughter of John Rodes and his wife married a Mr. Thompson, and she bore him a large family; Elizabeth, married first, Waller Rodes, and second, Gabriel Slaughter; David, who was the father of Col. Mentor Thompson of Sedalia, Missouri, and Manlius V. Thompson, at one time lieut. Governor of Kentucky; a daughter, married a Ferguson; Asa; Clifton; John; a daughter, married a Wigglesworth; and a daughter, married Rodes Smith." (Kentucky Explorer, Volume 16, Number 6, November 2001, Genealogy From The Long Ago.)

Birth	November 6, 1729	Albemarle County, Virginia
Marriage	May 24, 1756	Albemarle County, Virginia - Sarah Harris
Death	July 15, 1810	Albemarle County, Virginia

Spouse	Sarah Harris (1736 - 1803)
Child	Mary Rhodes (1757 - 1773)
Child	Robert Rhodes (1759 - 1818)
Child	Henrietta Rhodes (1761 - )
Child	Annie Rhodes (1763 - )
Child	John Rhodes (1766 - )
Child	Clifton Rhodes (1768 - )
Child	Tyree Rhodes (1771 - )
Child	Charles Rhodes (1774 - )
Child	Sarah Rhodes (1777 - )