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Author: tombear58
Surnames: Rhodes, Moser, Brown, Blackburn, Akers
Classification: queries
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Hi Gary,
If you are still around, I have found more proof and found out where Elizabeth Mosier
Rhodes died.
First here is the Cass Co, MO census data:
1860 Cass Co MO, Dolan Twp. - M653 Roll 612 p.789(84) (July 21, 1860) - Everet P.O.
592-592 RHOADS Joseph 68 NC Farmer 5,200 100
BLACKBURN James M. 30 NC Farmer 12,000 3000
Martha 24 IN
Olivia B. 8/12 MO
Joseph's daughter had married James Madison Blackburn Dec. 21, 1858 Cass Co, MO
(B/317). Joseph J. Rhodes, son of Joseph Rhodes and Elizabeth Mosier, died Oct. 26, 1858
Cass Co, MO and was buried in Moudy Cemetery, just NW of the Everett community near the S
Cass county line.
Joseph Rhodes (father and son) of Cass County (Apr & May 1857), James M. Blackburn of
Cass County (Apr, May & Oct 1857, Jan 1858) and Solomon G. Brown of Bourbon County
(Oct 1856, May 1857) bought property just north of the southern Cass County line. James M.
Blackburn also bought two lots in the town of Longport, 1/2 mi south of the current
Everett community, and other property in northern Bates County.
James Madison Blackburn was made Captain (confederate) in the MO State Guard at Butler,
Bates Co, MO after mustering and training May 6, 1861. He supplied blankets and such guns
as he could find to his men. A mob that followed him south assassinated him June 27, 1861
in Camp at Papinsville while he was awaiting orders to march south. I do not know where he
was buried. His survivors fell under Order No. 11 and moved to Harrisonville and out of
state for the duration of the war after which they returned. An account was dictated by
his daughter Miss Elizabeth Blackburn who lived in 1923 in Kansas City when she joined the
United Daughters of the Confederacy. It stated that her mother Martha Rhodes was born July
3, 1837 near Hall, IN and died Feb 2, 1918 in Kansas City, MO. Her mother's father was
Joseph Rhodes, born 20 Oct 1791 near Salisbury, N.C. and died in Cass Co., Mo. 12 Sep
1867. Her mother's mother Elizabeth Moser was born Feb 1796 on a plantation in SC and
died on a fa!
rm near Hall, Indiana June 1853.
Martha Rhodes Blackburn, widow, remarried to Andrew J. Akers in 1869 Cass Co, MO. She had
a daughter Fanny Akers.
I have more details if you would like them. However, I thought it was strange that Solomon
G. Brown bought land about the same time Joseph Rhodes did and that he was listed as of
Bourbon Co, KS where Ft. Scott is instead of the Emporia, KS area where he organized the
Christian Church in 1856 and his wife Mary Elizabeth Rhodes Brown died Feb. 27, 1857 after
birth of a daughter. Supposedly the Solomon Glory Brown family had left Morgan Co, IN in
fall of 1855, wintered over at Ft. Scott and continued on to the Emporia area,
Breckinridge Co, KS in April 1856.
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