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Rhoades marriages

2 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.

Richard Rhoades and Sally Poteat

Marriage bond, 28 September 1786

Bond dated
28 September 1786
In the books
Orange Marriage Book N-R, page 986, at the Register of Deeds
Other readings
  • Ingmire reads the bride as Sally Peteat
  • Holcomb reads the bride as Salley Peteat

Saloman Shepherd and Lowana Rhoades

Marriage bond, 19 November 1856

Bond dated
19 November 1856
Married
20 November 1856
In the books
Orange Marriage Book S-V, page 157, at the Register of Deeds
Other readings
  • Ingmire reads the groom as Soloman Sheperd and the bride as Sowana J. Rhodes
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60009, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Roc–Ta” (the name falls near a reel’s first or last bond; check both).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60001, “Marriage Record, 1851–66, and Marriage Registers, 1867–72”.
  • The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 381 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
  • Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).
In all the records
Every Rhoades record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more
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