To this family was born William Rhodes in 1698 also in Middlesex County, Virginia. To William Rhodes was born Christopher Rhodes in 1730 in Orange County. Carolina and to Christopher was born another William Rhodes in 1764 or 65 in North Carolina. This family moved to Spartanburg, So. Carolina where we received information from land grants and tomb stones in the Rhodes Cemetery that we visited in Enoree, S. Carolina.
Records also show they fought in the Revolutionary War.
To William and Rebecca Wollford Rhodes was born James, William, Jr., Elenor, Margaret, Christopher, Rebecca, John W. and Catherine Rhodes. This is the family that moved to Henderson County, near old Jacks Creek Church approximately in the year 1832 to 1834. Later in 1835, William Rhodes, Sr. moved from Enoree, S. Carolina to Tennessee with his children. Records show this family to have been very religious, with William Sr. serving as a Baptist minister at Woodruff Baptist Church near Enoree S. Carolina in 1834. When he moved to Henderson County, Tenn.