Individual Details
* William Lyle "Father Roddey" Roddey Captain
(10 Aug 1834 - 10 Jun 1909)
Events
| Birth | 10 Aug 1834 | Roddey's Station, York, South Carolina, United States |  | ||
| Census | 1840 | York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Census | 1850 | York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Move | 1850 | to learn the mercantile business with his Uncle Joseph Wylie - Lewisville Chester, South Carolina, United States | |||
| Occupation | 1860 | Merchant - Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 20 Dec 1860 | Lewisville?, Chester, South Carolina, United States - * Anna Cousart "Mother Roddey" Baskin | | ||
| Military | 15 Mar 1862 - 16 Jun 1865 | 24th Regiment, Company H, Infantry - Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Military | Sep 1863 | wounded in shoulder, slight | | ||
| Military | 16 Oct 1864 | Prisoner of War - Taylors Ridge, Georgia | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Abt 1865 | see notes for story of how Father Roddey received gold to pay off his New York debts | | ||
| Military | 4 May 1865 | Johnson's Island, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Military | 16 Jun 1865 | released on Oath, started his walk home - Johnson's Island Prison, Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio | |||
| Miscellaneous | Aug 1865 | mostly walked home from the Prison in Sandusky Bay - Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Residence (family) | Abt 1867 | owned a green house across the street from the John Roddey house - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States - * Anna Cousart "Mother Roddey" Baskin | |||
| Property | 12 May 1867 | paid $90 - Lot 11 North on E Main, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Property | 1 Oct 1867 | purchased from AT Black for $400 - Lots 5&6, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Religion | 5 May 1868 | became a member with his wife - Neely's Creek ARP, Chester, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Property | 12 Dec 1868 | sold to Ferguson H Barber, formerly of Chester - Lots 5 & 6 North, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Abt 1869 | signed a petition for incorporation of Rock Hill - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1869 | was on the roll of the 'Hook and Ladder' fire company - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1869 | was senior manager of the Costume Ball - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Residence (family) | Abt 1870 | across the street from John Roddey residence (near Roddey, SC) in a green house - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States - * Anna Cousart "Mother Roddey" Baskin | |||
| Census | 1870 | York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Property | 1872 | puchased fro his sister in law wife of David C Roddey - Lot 12 North, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Occupation | 3 Mar 1872 | made a deacon - Neely's Creek ARP Church, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Occupation | 1873 | bought out the interest of his Chester partners, Wylie and Augers, mercantiles - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Property | 14 Jan 1874 | sold lot to WA Barber for $2,300 - Lot 11 North on E Main, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | |||
| Wit | 20 Jul 1877 | York, South Carolina, United States | |||
| Miscellaneous | 1880 | invested in Rock Hill's first textile mill, The Rock Hill Cotton Factory - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Census (family) | 18 Jun 1880 | Catawba, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States - * Anna Cousart "Mother Roddey" Baskin | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Jan 1881 | supported the petition for have Rock Hill the first town in state to 'go dry'. - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 23 Apr 1881 | executor of Hannah Wylie's will [his wife's aunt] | |||
| Occupation | 15 Jan 1887 | President of First National Bank - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1888 | built the hotel named The Carolina on Main St - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1889 | the Globe Mill (now Victoria Mill) chartered - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1894 | donated 2 acres of land along with LM Davis donating 2 acres for the first African American school - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Census (family) | 1900 | Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States - * Anna Cousart "Mother Roddey" Baskin | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1902 | slipped on ice, fractured left shoulder - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Occupation | 1903 | philanthropics helping to raise funds for a new hospital with Dr. Fennell - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1906 | first to visit Montreat - Montreat, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | Abt 1907 | see notes for story of borrowing $40,000 from a New York banker | | ||
| Probate | Abt 1909 | York, South Carolina, United States | |||
| Death | 10 Jun 1909 | Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Burial | Aft 10 Jun 1909 | Laurelwood Cemetery, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Obit | 11 Jun 1909 | Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 25 Jan 1910 | Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Picture | 20 Jan 2015 | received a picture of his memorial window constructed in 1911 addition to the church - First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | ||
| Alt name | Father Roddey | ||||
| Miscellaneous | the wealthiest man in York County - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | |||
| Property | owned Victoria Cotton Mill - Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States | | |||
| Property | owned 8 farms mostly in York County, South Carolina | | |||
| Picture | have numerous portraits in my file | ||||
| Miscellaneous | see notes for story about dove hunt | | |||
| Miscellaneous | |||||
| Birth | Wyanoke Mill, Chester County, South Carolina | | |||
| Miscellaneous | 1880s | phone line between Rock Hill and Roddey's station to connect his two stores - Roddey Station, South Carolina | |
Families
| Spouse | * Anna Cousart "Mother Roddey" Baskin (1839 - 1922) |
| Child | * William Joseph "Papa Joe" Roddey (1861 - 1945) |
| Child | * John Thomas Roddey (1865 - 1931) |
| Child | Still born infant Roddey (1867 - 1867) |
| Child | * Mary Catharine 'Katie' "Kate" Roddey (1868 - 1937) |
| Child | * Annie Lyle Roddey (1870 - 1910) |
| Child | Martha Wylie "Mattie" Roddey (1873 - 1875) |
| Father | * John "Squire" Roddey Esq (1805 - 1860) |
| Mother | * Mary Grier "Polly" Wylie (1810 - 1892) |
| Sibling | David Clarkson Roddey (1830 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Thomas Elihu Roddey Sgt (1832 - 1861) |
| Sibling | Elisabeth Ann Roddey (1837 - 1843) |
| Sibling | Nancy Jane Roddey (1840 - 1886) |
| Sibling | * Sarah Lavinia Roddey (1842 - 1925) |
| Sibling | Margaret 'Josephine' Roddey (1845 - 1906) |
| Sibling | Martha Ann "Mattie" Roddey (1847 - 1920) |
| Sibling | Mary Elizabeth Roddey (1851 - 1852) |
| Sibling | Joseph Wylie Roddey (1853 - 1928) |
Endnotes
1. Cheryl treewren@att.net, Descendents of Joseph Wren.
2. William Boyce White, Jr, Notes on the Wylie Family 129 Elizabeth Lane, Rock Hill, SC 1960, p4.
3. William Lyle Roddey Family Bible, 1869-1982; The Compreshensive Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1869); "Births"; privately held by R.S. Roddey, [address for private use,] South Carolina, 2015. Handed down three generations of Roddey men. Entries written by different people for each generation. Personally viewed and took photographs in 2013. John Lobato's entry written by his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Roddey..
4. "Roddey," (n.d., Roddey Family Bible copied by Thomas Mitchell Roddey letter to Billy); binder: "Roddey," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.
5. Laurelwood Cemetery (Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina), Wm Lyle Roddey maker, section 2 lot 5, personal photo taken by Ria Lobato, 28 October 2015. The Captain William Lyle Roddey plot is marked off by a brick border. All markers appears to be original..
6. Edited by William Francis Strait III, Gilbert Motier Lafayette Strait (1834-1863): Student, Physician, Soldier, Surgeon His Letters and His Times 1851-1863 (N.p.: self published, n.d. [1979 ca]), 14.
7. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 10 June 1955), memorial page for William Lyle Roddey, Find A Grave Memorial # 22303606, citing Laurelwood Cemetery (Rock Hill, York, South Carolina), photograph by Andrew Johnston.
8. 1840 US Federal Census, York, South Carolina, , enumeration district (ED) Not Stated, 43, John Roddy; digital images, Ancestry.com ( : accessed 3/11/2013).
9. 1850 U.S. census, York Co., SC, population schedule, , image 3, 21, Thomas Wylie, John Roddey; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : downloaded 27 December 2012); NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 860.
10. 1860 US Federal Census, Chester, SC, , enumeration district (ED) not stated, Rich Hill Cross Road Post Office, image 115 of 178, 966, W L Roddy; digital images, ancestry.com ( : accessed 14 June 2014).
11. "Reformed Presbyterian Marriages and Deaths, 1843-63 [SC]," database, ancestry.com (: accessed 1 February 2013), WL Roddey.
12. William Lyle Roddey Family Bible, 1869-1982; The Compreshensive Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1869); "Births"; privately held by R.S. Roddey, [address for private use,] South Carolina, 2015. Handed down three generations of Roddey men. Entries written by different people for each generation. Personally viewed and took photographs in 2013. John Lobato's entry written by his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Roddey..
13. "Eliza Ragedale Wylie Papers," from 1866 to 1954; loose records, ; Eliza Ragedale Wylie Papers - Acc 307 7-29; Louis Pettus Archives, 300 Cherry St, Rock Hill, SC. Loose paper with Roddeys listed - Mary Catherine Roddey first.
14. "Roddey," (n.d., Roddey Family Bible copied by Thomas Mitchell Roddey letter to Billy); binder: "Roddey," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.
15. Lowry Ware, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices from The Christian Magazine of the South, The Erskine Miscellany, and The Due West Telescope: 1843-1863 (Columbia, SC: SCMAR, 1993), 136, marriage of Mr. W.L. Roddey to Miss Anna C. Baskin, 20 Dec 1860.
16. Edited by William Francis Strait III, Gilbert Motier Lafayette Strait (1834-1863): Student, Physician, Soldier, Surgeon His Letters and His Times 1851-1863 (N.p.: self published, n.d. [1979 ca]), 14.
17. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 10 June 1955), memorial page for William Lyle Roddey, Find A Grave Memorial # 22303606, citing Laurelwood Cemetery (Rock Hill, York, South Carolina), photograph by Andrew Johnston.
18. National Park Service, "The Civil War," database, www.nps.gov (http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm?submitted=1&SDkeyword=&SDOriginState_count=None+Selected&SDlName=roddey&SDRankIn_count=None+Selected&SDfName=william+lyle&SDRankOut_count=None+Selected&SDsideName=C&SDfunction_count=None+Selected : accessed 22 December 2012), W Lyle Roddey.
19. "," database, fold3.com (: accessed 20 April 2014), William Lyle Roddey, 24th regiment Company H.
20. Friends and Descendants of Johnson Island Prisoners, "Certificate Of WL Roddey's Capture And Release From Johnson's Island," prisoner record, 20 March 2012, , ; , . .
21. "Newspaper Archives," digital images, GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com: accessed 2004), WL Roddey, wounded in Battle of Chickamauga, 3 Oct 1863; citing Charleston Mercury (Charleson, SC), p 2.
22. "Civil War (Confederate)," digital images, Fold3 (www.fold3.com: accessed 5 July 2013), William L Roddy, Capt, Co H, SC Inf, 16 Oct 1864.
23. Harry T. Jones, Jr., "letter to Roddey Dowd, Sr," (12/3/1996); folder: "Roddey Book Correspondences," Louise Pettus Papers, Acc. 1237, Box 2; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.
24. "United States Records of Prisoners of War, 1861-1865> OH, Johnson's Island, Military Prison> Amnesty rolls, miscellaneous, prisoner financial reocrds, 1865, v. 277-280," digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-953Y-XTN?wc=M8VF-52S%3A203214901%2C203214902&cc=1916234: accessed 20 June 2017), image 72,132, 263, W.L. Roddey, 4 May 1865; citing NARA microfilm publication M598, roll 83.
25. "United States Records of Prisoners of War, 1861-1865> OH, Johnson's Island, Military Prison> Prisoner deaths, registers & reports, 1862-1865, v. 274-276," digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G535-SY7W?wc=M8VF-1WL%3A203214901%2C203222101&cc=1916234: accessed 20 June 2017), image 142, Wm L Rodde, 16 June 1865; citing NARA microfilm publication, M598, roll 80.
26. "Oral Interview - Jones Family Tape - Aug 11, 1995 at Harry Jones' Montreat House with Various grandchildren of William Joseph Roddey," 11 August 1995 by Louise Pettus, owned by Louise Pettus Library, Rock Hill, SC, transcript from recorded tapes; Stories about Father Roddey.
27. "," database, Roots and Recall (www.rootsandrecall.com: accessed 13 June 2014), Lot #11 North on East Main Street.
28. "," database, Roots and Recall (www.rootsandrecall.com: downloaded 20 December 2014), Capt WL Roddey buying and selling lots in Rock Hill.
29. , Minutes of the Session of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Neelys Creek (Handwritten of Session Book: n.p., 1847-1878, a copy in the York County Library in Rock Hill, SC. I have paper copy.), 9.
30. "," database, Roots and Recall (www.rootsandrecall.com: downloaded 20 December 2014), Capt WL Roddey buying and selling lots in Rock Hill.
31. Committee, A Chronological History of Rock Hill, SC : 1567-1952 (Rock Hill, South Carolina: Committee Self Published, unknown, possibly 1952), 10.
32. Louise Pettus, A Roddey Family: Our Ancestral Lineage from David Roddey, the Pioneer, through the lives of William Joseph ' Papa Joe' Roddey and Mary Perry Dunlap ' Mama Joe' Roddey (N.p.: n.p., 1998), 16.
33. Louise Pettus, A Roddey Family: Our Ancestral Lineage from David Roddey, the Pioneer, through the lives of William Joseph ' Papa Joe' Roddey and Mary Perry Dunlap ' Mama Joe' Roddey (N.p.: n.p., 1998), 16.
34. 1870 U.S. census, York Co., South Carolina, population schedule, Division 1, p. 297B, dwelling 684, family 693, William L Roddy household household; digital images, Ancestry (http://search.ancestry.com : downloaded 27 April 2023); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1512.
35. "," database, Roots and Recall (www.rootsandrecall.com: accessed 13 June 2014), Lot #11 North on East Main Street.
36. Louise Pettus, A Roddey Family: Our Ancestral Lineage from David Roddey, the Pioneer, through the lives of William Joseph ' Papa Joe' Roddey and Mary Perry Dunlap ' Mama Joe' Roddey (N.p.: n.p., 1998), 16.
37. Louise Pettus, A Roddey Family: Our Ancestral Lineage from David Roddey, the Pioneer, through the lives of William Joseph ' Papa Joe' Roddey and Mary Perry Dunlap ' Mama Joe' Roddey (N.p.: n.p., 1998), 16.
38. "," database, nationalregister.sc.gov (/SurveyReports/rockhill.pdf: accessed 11 June 2013), WL Roddey in history of Rock Hill.
39. Committee, A Chronological History of Rock Hill, SC : 1567-1952 (Rock Hill, South Carolina: Committee Self Published, unknown, possibly 1952), 8.
40. 1880 U.S. census, York Co., SC, population schedule, Catawba Rock Hill, enumeration district (ED) 165, p. 444 (stamped), dwelling 133, family 133, Lyle W. Roddey household; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : downloaded 4 June 2016); citing FHL microfilm 1255243.
41. Committee, A Chronological History of Rock Hill, SC : 1567-1952 (Rock Hill, South Carolina: Committee Self Published, unknown, possibly 1952), 13.
42. Committee, A Chronological History of Rock Hill, SC : 1567-1952 (Rock Hill, South Carolina: Committee Self Published, unknown, possibly 1952), 14.
43. Randolph Lee Jones and Harry Tudor Jones, Jr, The Heritage of Harry Tudor Jones and Catherine Wylie Roddey Jones (self published: n.p., about 2005), 24 [hand written page numbers].
44. Committee, A Chronological History of Rock Hill, SC : 1567-1952 (Rock Hill, South Carolina: Committee Self Published, unknown, possibly 1952), 14.
45. "First Hotel Located at Steele's Crossing," Herald of Rock Hill, South Carolina, 3 May 1952, WL Roddey built a hotel in 1888; ychistory.org (https://dspace.ychistory.org/handle/11030/69675?show=full : accessed 12 June 2013), Newspaper Article, Manuscript and Church History Database.
46. Committee, A Chronological History of Rock Hill, SC : 1567-1952 (Rock Hill, South Carolina: Committee Self Published, unknown, possibly 1952), 15.
47. "," database, nationalregister.sc.gov (/SurveyReports/rockhill.pdf: accessed 11 June 2013), WL Roddey in history of Rock Hill.
48. 1900 U.S. census, York Co., SC, population schedule, Catawaba Township, Rock Hill, enumeration district (ED) 90, p. 12A (stamped), dwelling 186, family 188, W.L. Roddey household; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : downloaded 4 June 2016); citing FHL microfilm 1241546, roll 1545.
49. "Newspaper Archives," digital images, GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com: downloaded 18 October 2015), Rock Hill Thaws Out, Capt Roddey's Accident, State (Columbia, SC), 3 Feb 1902, p. 5; citing State (Columbia, SC), 4 Jan 1892, "Leap Year in Lancaster", p.2.
50. "Building Rock Hill," database, buildingrockhill.com (: accessed 22 May 2013), Dr. Fennell 306 North Confederate Ave, or search 'Roddey'.
51. Randolph Lee Jones and Harry Tudor Jones, Jr, The Heritage of Harry Tudor Jones and Catherine Wylie Roddey Jones (self published: n.p., about 2005), not numbered. p 22 (I hand numbered).
52. Harry T. Jones, Jr., "letter to Roddey Dowd, Sr," (12/3/1996); folder: "Roddey Book Correspondences," Louise Pettus Papers, Acc. 1237, Box 2; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.
53. Randolph Lee Jones and Harry Tudor Jones, Jr, The Heritage of Harry Tudor Jones and Catherine Wylie Roddey Jones (self published: n.p., about 2005), 24 [hand written page numbers].
54. "Roddey," (n.d., Roddey Family Bible copied by Thomas Mitchell Roddey letter to Billy); binder: "Roddey," William Boyce White, Jr Papers; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Rock Hill, SC.
55. Laurelwood Cemetery (Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina), Wm Lyle Roddey maker, section 2 lot 5, personal photo taken by Ria Lobato, 28 October 2015. The Captain William Lyle Roddey plot is marked off by a brick border. All markers appears to be original..
56. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 10 June 1955), memorial page for William Lyle Roddey, Find A Grave Memorial # 22303606, citing Laurelwood Cemetery (Rock Hill, York, South Carolina), photograph by Andrew Johnston.
57. 1991 article from The Quarterly, York Gen & Hist Soc, Confederate Dead Buried in laurewood Cemetery.
58. Laurelwood Cemetery (Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina), Wm Lyle Roddey maker, section 2 lot 5, personal photo taken by Ria Lobato, 28 October 2015. The Captain William Lyle Roddey plot is marked off by a brick border. All markers appears to be original..
59. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 10 June 1955), memorial page for William Lyle Roddey, Find A Grave Memorial # 22303606, citing Laurelwood Cemetery (Rock Hill, York, South Carolina), photograph by Andrew Johnston.
60. "Capt. William Roddey Dead," (Columbia, SC) State, 11 June, 1909, p.2, col. 3; digital images, Genealogybank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 4 June 2015), Newspaper Archives..
61. “Roddey Property Sold, ” (North Carolina) Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan 1910, p. 1, col. 1 ; digital image, Genealogybank.com ( http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 19 Aug 2019)..
62. Memorial Stained Glass Window Photograph for William Lyle Roddey, 2015, Digital image, Privately held by Paul Gettys, [address for private use,] Catawba, South Carolina. 2015. Located in First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Rock Hill..
63. Randolph Lee Jones and Harry Tudor Jones, Jr, The Heritage of Harry Tudor Jones and Catherine Wylie Roddey Jones (self published: n.p., about 2005), 24 [hand written page numbers].
64. Randolph Lee Jones and Harry Tudor Jones, Jr, The Heritage of Harry Tudor Jones and Catherine Wylie Roddey Jones (self published: n.p., about 2005), 24 [hand written page numbers].
65. Randolph Lee Jones and Harry Tudor Jones, Jr, The Heritage of Harry Tudor Jones and Catherine Wylie Roddey Jones (self published: n.p., about 2005), 24 [hand written page numbers].
66. Harry T. Jones, Jr., "letter to Roddey Dowd, Sr," (12/3/1996); folder: "Roddey Book Correspondences," Louise Pettus Papers, Acc. 1237, Box 2; Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.
67. "Capt. W.L Roddey Passes," Obit, Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer, 11 June 1909, WL Roddey's death; online, GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com : downloaded 10 November 2017).
68. "," database, Roots and Recall (www.rootsandrecall.com: accessed 2 December 2019), Coate's Tavern and Roddey Station, P.M. Gettys - 2016.