Rhoads, Lewis

RHOADS, FRUMP

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/7/2019 at 08:12:46

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa, (Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 672-73:

LEWIS RHOADS, section 31, Bloomington Township, Decatur County, is a native of Highland County, Ohio, born August 28, 1845, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Frump) Rhoads, who were natives of Virginia and Delaware respectively. They were the parents of the following children -- Jacob, Nancy, John, Harriet, Lewis, Margaret, Minerva, Ellen, Samuel and Cary, Lewis being the fifth child. When he was seven years of age he was taken by his parents to Ross County, Ohio, where he remained till he enlisted in the late war, in August, 1862, a member of Company G, Sixtieth Ohio Infantry. He was in the engagements of Winchester and Harper's Ferry, where he was taken prisoner, but after being held a few days he was paroled, and taken in charge by the Government. He was ordered to Chicago till exchanged, and was finally discharged at Camp Denison, Ohio. He re-enlisted in August, 1863, in Company G, Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, and participated in the battles of Resaca, Kingston, Georgia, Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Atlanta, siege of Savannah, and Bentonville, North Carolina, and was at the grand review at Washington. He received an honorable discharge at Camp Denison, Ohio, when he returned to Ross County, Ohio, remaining there till 1871, when he came to Iowa. After living two years in Muscatine County, Iowa, he removed to Jewell County, Kansas, where he resided five years. He came to Decatur County, Iowa, in 1878, locating on his present farm, in March, 1884, where he has eighty-five acres under a high state of cultivation, a comfortable residence, and good out-buildings for stock, and a fine orchard. He was reared to agricultural pursuits which he has always followed, and is now successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising. Mr. Rhoads is still unmarried, and his mother makes her home with him. In politics he casts his suffrage with the Republican party."

(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)