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  Orange County, Indiana
  Index to Marriage Record 1826-1920 Inclusive Volume 2 Letters L - Z Inclusive
  Original Record Location County Clerk's Office, Paoli W. P. A. Compiled by Indiana Work Progress Administration 1939
  County: Orange
  Name: Elvet B Rhodes
  Spouse: Fannie J Porter
  Marriage Date: 15 Apr 1880; Book: C- 7; Original Source Page: 146
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  Indiana Marriages, 1845-1920
  County: Orange
  Name: Cora A Roberts
  Spouse: Eloet B Rhodes (should be Elvet B. Rhodes)
  Marriage Date: 28 May 1885; Book: C- 7; Original Source Page: 479
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  Orange County, Indiana
  Index to Supplemental Record Marriage Transcript 1882-1920 Letters A - Z
  Originial Record Location County Welfare Office Paoli W. P. A. Compiled by Indiana Work Progress Administration 1939
  
  County: Orange
  Name: Elvet B Rhodes
  Father: John
  Mother: Nancy A Pinnick
  Gender: M
  Age: 37
  Marriage Date: 28 May 1885; Book: H-1; Original Source Page: 64
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  Ancestry.com Images Online, image 1
  1880 U.S. Census, District 18, Orange County, Indiana, village of Lick Creek (?)
  1/1 Campbell, George W., 36, dry goods merchant
  wife Ann, 32; daughter Fannie, 8; son Noble C., 5 and brother-in-law I.F./J.F. Rhodes
  2/2 RHODES, E. B., 30 and wife Fannie J(?), 28 (dry goods merchant)
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  Ancestry.com Images Online, image 45 (see image for particulars)
  1900 U.S. Census, French Lick Twp., West Baden town, Orange County, Indiana
  Elvet/Eleot B. Rhodes (hotel proprietor) and wife CORA A.
  3 children (John A., Minnie L., Roscoe F.) and brother-in-law WILBUR L. FAUCETT
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  1910 U.S. Census, French Lick Twp., West Baden town, Orange County, Indiana
  Elvet B. Rhodes and wife CORA A., b. 1855 (2nd marriage for both)
  3 children (John A., Minnie L., Roscoe F.) and brother-in-law WILBUR L. FAUCETT, b. 1850
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  Ancestry.com 1920 U.S. Federal Census
  1920, Indiana, Orange Co, Other Townships, ED# 137  Image 47 of 57
  Rhodes, Cora A
  Age:  64 (b. abt. 1856)    Birthplace:  Indiana
  West Baden Springs Twp, Orange Co, IN
  Enumeration District 137, p. 24A; Roll T625_459, Image 686
  Enumeration Date:  16 Jan 1920
  line 12 h/h 57/70  Rhodes, Cora A., head, own, free, female, white, widowed, can read and write, b. Indiana; father b. N. Carolina, mother b. Kentucky; speaks English, yes, none
  Rhodes, Roscoe, son, male, white, 26 (b. 1894), single, can read and write, b. Indiana; parents b. Indiana;  speaks English, yes, farming, ?, A?
  Rhodes, Minnie, daughter, female, white, 28 (b. 1892), single, can read and write, b. Indiana; parents b. Indiana;  speaks English, yes, none?
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  RHODES, Elvet B., Springs Valley Herald (January 16, 1919) Death Notice
  Elvet B. Rhodes, one of West Baden's oldest and most prominent citizens passed away at his home in that city last Sunday morning from pneumonia. Mr. Rhodes was at one time part owner of the West Baden Springs Hotel with Mr. Sinclair. He was a member of the Masonic Order and the local lodge had charge of the funeral which was at Ames Chapel Tuesday.
  
  Springs Valley Herald (January 30, 1919) Memorial
  Death having severed the cord of life and set at liberty the soul of our beloved brother Elvet B. Rhodes. from the cares and sorrows of this life, thise severing another link from the fraternity chain that cinds us together. May we, who survive him be more strongly cemented in the ties of union and friendship and while we drop a sympathetic tear over the grave of our deceased brother let us cast around him the brood mantle of Masonic charity nor withhold from his memory the commendation that his virtues claim at our hands.
  Elvet B. Rhodes was raised to the sublime Degree of Master Mason on the night of Dec. 5, 1911 by French Lick Lodge No. 586, and ever after lived an honorable and consistent member and was greatly loved by the fraternity and all who knew him
  He died at his home in West Baden, Ind. Jan. 12, 1919, aged 69 years past
  His funeral was preached at the Ames Chapel Church Jan. 14, by Rev. Frank Denny after which his remains were laid in their final resting place at the Ames Chapel Cemetery by French Lick Lodge No. 586 A. F. & A. M.
  To those of his immediate relative and friends who are most heartstricken at the loss we have all sustained, we do most deeply sympathize with them in their bereavement, and the God of all graces help and comfort them, and may they look forward to the time of the general meeting where there will be no parting. C. W. Kellams, Wm. J. McCoy, F. A. Roach, committee.
  
  Springs Valley Herald (January 30, 1919) Obituary
  Elvet Beverly Rhodes was born north of West Baden, Indiana on what s known as the James McCracken farm, December 17, 1849, and died at his home in West Baden, Indiana, January 12, 1919, aged 69 years, 26 days. He was son of John A. and Nancy Ann Pinnick Rhodes, to whom were born eight children, namely: Anna J. (Mrs. G. W. Campbell), Elvet, the subject of this sketch, Joseph, James, Martha, Elizabeth (who was the wife of Geo. T. Osborn), John and Andrew, who died in childhood. The others lived to adult life. In 1863, the father died, leaving the family of growing boys and girls in their tender years to the care of the widowed mother. She proved herself to be a wonderful capacity and fine judgement, and the qualities of hardihood and endurance, which we knew in this, her eldest son, were no doubt born of those early years when he was the chief dependence of that mother, at thirteen years old.
  The strain and hardship broke her health and she died in 1869. The home was broken up, and Elvet, then 20 years old, went to live with his sister and became associated in business with his brother-in-law, the late George W. Campbell and the firm named Campbell and Rhodes became a part of the life of Orange County, finally culminating in E. B. Rhodes purchasing one-third interest in the West Baden Springs Hotel, where for seventeen years, he was the junior partner with the late L. W. Sinclair, which relation ended with the fire of 1901, after which, he confined himself to farming and stock raising having always had an inherent love for fine horses.
  In 1880 he was married to Fannie J. Porter, who tuberculosis claimed after only fourteen months. Within a few years he was married to Mrs. Alice Faucett Roberts. To this union were born three children, namely: John A., Minnie Louise and Roscoe Faucett, all of whom, with the mother, survive him. John, the eldest son, is still in the Army Service at Camp Knox and Roscoe has long been his father's dependence of the White River Stock farm, at Haysville. There also remains the one sister, Mrs. Campbell, of Bloomington, Ind., upon whom the blow falls heavily, she being the eldest and last of them all and her own home having also been practically their family home in days gone by. She has mothered them all, and has one by one laid them all away. E. B. Rhodes was a man of energy. Plain, unassuming, a man who really saw the dignity of labor as few men do, and his happiness was in honest effort to achieve, and a clean upright life
  He united with the M. E. Church at Nelson Chapel when quite a young man, under the pastorate of Rev. Harned, but had never transferred his membership to West Baden although his interest, as well as this family were always identified with West Baden M. E. Church.
  He was a member of French Lick Lodge of Masons, a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Murat Shrine of Indianapolis for 18 years. He was Postmaster at West Baden for years before it was made a Presidential Office, and was Presidential Postmaster during the administrations of Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt.
  The end has come.
  A long life, clean, honest and pure gone out, like the falling of a giant oak in the forest, which having weathered the storms of years, stands as their monument, so the strength of this life stands out in the memory of us all patient, enduring, of undaunted courage, clean and wholesome, despising wrong, and by his example bids us keep to the things that best made for real character. The end has come.
  And again we are reminded that in the economy of an Infinite God, death has its natural place, even as birth, and that what He has panned - even death, being so universal, must be a blessing.
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  Ames Chapel Cemetery
  Transcribed by Vonda Lee Heverly
  French Lick Township Sec. 30-T. 2N.- R.2 W. Still in use.
  Located 2 1/2 miles east of West Baden Springs on State Road 150. A Methodist Church was organized here in 1870 by the union of two pioneer Methodist groups, Smith and Nelson Chapels. Moses Ham donated 3 acres of land for church and cemetery. Burials prior to 1880 have been moved from old burying grounds. This cemetery serves a wide area. The cemetery was copied stone by stone by Denzil Wallace in 1990.
  
  RHODES, John A.; b. 22 Jun 1886, d. 15 Aug 1949; s/o Elvet B. & Alice FAWCETT RHODES.
  RHODES, Fannie J.; b. 1857, d. Jun 1881; w/o Elvet B. RHODES; nee PORTER.
  RHODES, Elvet B.; b. 1849, d. 1919; h/o (1) Fannie J. PORTER, (2) Cora Alice FAWCETT.
  RHODES, CORA ALICE; b. 1855, d. 1931; w/o Elvet B. RHODES; nee FAWCETT.
  RHODES, Roscoe F.; b. 9 Feb 1892, d. 30 Mar 1984; h/o Ardella; s/o Elvet B. & Cora Alice FAWCETT RHODES.
  RHODES, Ardella; w/o Roscoe F. RHODES.
  RHODES, F. Rhodes Jr.; b. _, d. 17 Oct 1922; s/o Roscoe F. & Ardella RHODES.
  RHODES, Joseph F.; b. 1852, d. 1893; s/o John A. & Nancy Ann RHODES
  RHODES, Minnie Louise; b. 1888, d. 17 May 1959; unmarried; d/o Elvet B. & Cora Alice FAWCETT RHODES

Details of Elvet Beverly's family with Cora Alice Faucett