Iowa Family Groupsheet for Harvey J. RODREICK Family *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Margaret Robe Summitt Email address: csummitt@gte.net Husband: Harvey J. RODREICK Birthdate: 30 Sept 1824 Birthplace: Petersburg, Maryland Death date: Place of death: Father: Mother: Marriage date: 1 June 1846 Marriage place: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Wife: Belinda ROBE Birthdate: 1825/1830 Birthplace: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Death date: 15 May 1865 Place of death: Lucas County, Iowa Father: William ROBE Mother: Hannah AUSTIN CHILDREN Child No. 1: Milton RODREICK Sex: M Birthdate: 1847 Birthplace: Monongalia County, Va/WVa Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Mary (UNKNOWN) Child No. 2: Lavinia RODREICK Sex: F Birthdate: 1848 Birthplace: Virginia/West Virginia Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: 18 November 1875 Marriage place: Spouse's name: John Simeon ARMSTRONG Child No. 3: Waitman RODREICK Sex: M Birthdate: 1850 Birthplace: Virginia/West Virginia Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 4: Jane RODREICK Sex: F Birthdate: 1852 Birthplace: Virginia/West Virginia Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 5: David RODREICK Sex: Birthdate: 8 January 1856 Birthplace: Lucas County, Iowa Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: 1881 Marriage place: Crawford County, Kansas Spouse's name: Sarah Abbie PACKARD Child No. 6: Hannah RODREICK Sex: F Birthdate: 1858 Birthplace: Lucas County, Iowa Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: about 1876 Marriage place: Kansas Spouse's name: James Stewart HAMILTON Documentation: !Birth: 1860 Census, Lucas Co., Iowa, Phauton Twp. p. 28 Dwelling 211 Family 184, lines 10-17. This family immediately precedes the family of Belinda's brother Robert Robe. Harvey J. Roderic age 36 M Farmer $1200 real property, $50 personal property. Born in Maryland. Balinda Roderic age 38 F b. in Va. This would make her born in 1822. Milton Roderic age 13 M b. in Va. attended school within the year. Lavina Roderic age 12 F b. in Va. attended school within the year. Haterman Roderic age 10 b. in Va. attended school within the year. Jane Roderic age 8 F b. in Va. attended school within the year. Daniel Roderic age 4 M b. in Iowa (this should be David, not Daniel) Hannah Roderic age 2 F b. Iowa !Marriage: Monongalia County Marriages gives marriage date as 4 June 1846 and husband's name as Henry J. Roderick; biography of Harvey J. Rodreick in William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas gives marriage date as 1 June 1846, and in Taylor Co., not Monongalia Co., Va. This marriage, however, is recorded in the General Index to Marriages of Monongalia Co. !Death: before 1884, when Belinda is listed as deceased in Josiah Robe vs. Ann Robe's Heirs, Monongalia Chancery Orders 7:2ff, October 1884. This is also the source of her children's names. Monongalia County Deeds 1:404, 8 Nov 1848, Robe heirs to John Barb (title bond); Belinda and Henry J. Roderick signed the deed but were not named in it. Biography of Harvey J. Rodreick in William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, part 19: Crawford County, Washington Township, gives death date as 15 May 1865 and that Belinda was buried in Lucas Co., Iowa. from William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Part 19: Crawford County, Washington Township (1883) Found at http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/crawford/crawford-co- p19.html. HARVEY J. RODREICK, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. New Pittsburg, was born near Petersburg, Md., September 30, 1824. At the age of eleven years, he removed with his people to Virginia, where he was reared and educated. He was identified with farming in Taylor County, Va., till 1854, when he went to Lucas County, Iowa. After carrying on farming there for five years, he went to California, and was for six years actively engaged in mining operations; returning to Iowa afterwards, he soon after moved into Montgomery County, Mo., where, after farming there for four years, and afterward two years in Cass County, he came to Kansas and located here, where he has been actively identified with his present industry since. On June 4, 1846, he married in Taylor County, Va., Miss Belinda Robe, who departed this life May 15, 1865, and is buried in Lucas County, Iowa. Her children living are Milton, in the lumber business in Colorado; David (whose sketch appears), Luvinah, Mrs. Simeon Armstrong; Jane, Hannah, Mrs. James Stewart Hamilton. He married January 18, 1871, Mrs. Martha D. Lakey, nee Miller. April 10, 1881, he married Mrs. Rosana Dexter, nee Beebe, who was born and raised in Athens County, Ohio. She has one son and one daughter - George William, farmer, and Lizzie Frances, now Mrs. Wiley H. Redd, farmer. The family holds to the religion of the Baptist Church. His farm contains 160 acres of valuable land, well improved, fenced and watered, good buildings and an orchard of a nicely assorted variety of fruit. 1880 Census online at Familysearch.org: Henry J. RODERICK Self W Male W 55 MD Farmer MD VA Milton RODERICK Son M Male W 33 VA Works On Farm MD VA Mary RODERICK Dau M Female W 26 VA Housekeeper MD VA James H. RODERICK GSon S Male W 2 AR MD VA Waitman RODERICK GSon S Male W 1 AR MD VA Eliza B. RODERICK GDau S Female W 2M KS MD VA Source Information: Census Place Washington, Crawford, Kansas Family History Library Film 1254378 NA Film Number T9-0378 Page Number 153A This looks as if Mary is Henry J.'s daughter-in-law, and there are errors in recording the birth places of the grandchildren's parents. If these are Milton's children, then their father would have been born in VA and mother in VA.