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Descendants of Jacob Rhodes

23. FOREST GENE⁴ RHODES (WILLIAM BRYANT³, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 11 February 1904 in Lane's Precinct, Lawrence County, Alabama²³, and died 15 July 1991 in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama²⁴. He married RUBY RUSSELL 23 September 1934 in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama.

Notes for FOREST GENE RHODES:
Morgan County, Alabama, Marriage Book X-460:

Gene Forest (Forest Gene) Rhodes, 27 years old, 5'10", 145 lbs., native Alabamian, farming, first marriage, Methodist, Decatur 3 married Ruby Russell, b 7/25/1935, 5'4", 140 lbs., native Alabamian, farming, first marriage, Christian, Decatur 3. They married September 23, 1934 at Southside Baptist Church, Decatur, Alabama.

Children of FOREST RHODES and RUBY RUSSELL are:

	i.		ETHEL GENE⁵ RHODES, b. 27 June 1939, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama; m. THOMAS A. MEADOWS, 18 July 1957, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama.
	ii.		BILLY JOE RHODES, b. 4 July 1944, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama; m. RUBY BURKS, 7 January 1966, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama.

24. ARTHUR W.⁴ ROBERTS (MARY BEATRICE (DOLLIE)³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 5 October 1897 in Neel, Morgan County, Alabama, and died 1 June 1919. He married ETHEL MOORE 2 May 1915 in Neel, Morgan County, Alabama.

Notes for ARTHUR W. ROBERTS:
Buried in Johnson's Chapel Cemetery, Morgan County, Alabama. Woodman of the World Memorial at gravesite.

Child of ARTHUR ROBERTS and ETHEL MOORE is:

ARTIE WILSON⁵ ROBERTS, b. 6 May 1916, Neel, Morgan County, Alabama; d. 6 May 1916, Neel, Morgan County, Alabama.

25. JASPERJEWELL⁴ ROBERTS (MARY BEATRICE (DOLLIE)³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 3 May 1902 in Neel, Morgan County, Alabama²⁵, and died 2 May 1988 in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama²⁶. He married (1) VERA ALMERTIS. He married (2) MAE DELASHAW, daughter of JOHN DELASHAW and ELLA WHISNANT.

Notes for JASPERJEWELL ROBERTS:
Buried 4 May 1988, Roselawn Cemetery, Decatur, Alabama

Notes for MAE DELASHAW:
Burial 21 February 1980, Roselawn Cemetery, Decatur, Alabama

Child of JASPERJEWELL ROBERTS and VERA ALMERTIS is:

FAY NELL⁵ ROBERTS, b. 16 November 1921, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. (1) RUBE JR. LONG, Abt. 1937; m. (2) JAMES ALFORD MCCULLOCH, 12 October 1985.

Notes for RUBE JR. LONG:
Death caused by cancer.

Buried at Johnson's Chapel Cemetery

Children of JASPERJEWELL ROBERTS and MAE DELASHAW are:

	ii.		EMMA CAROLYN⁵ ROBERTS, b. 19 September 1933, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. JOSEPH W. PARKER.
	iii.		SHIRLEY MAE ROBERTS, b. 4 June 1936, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. LEVI SMITH.
	iv.		JASPER CARL ROBERTS, b. 11 April 1938, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. BETTY ANN BOWLIN.

Notes for JASPER CARL ROBERTS:
Retired from Bell South Telephone Company and living in Decatur, AL 6 April 1998.

26. ZOLA FLORENCE⁴ ROBERTS (MARY BEATRICE (DOLLIE)³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 1 June 1906 in Neel, Morgan County, Alabama²⁷, and died 25 June 1983 in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama²⁸. She married LUTHER ROPER 25 July 1920 in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Notes for ZOLA FLORENCE ROBERTS:
Burial: Roselawn Cemetery, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama-

Notes for LUTHER ROPER:
Burial: Roselawn Cemetery, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama

Children of ZOLA ROBERTS and LUTHER ROPER are:

	i.		ANDY CASEY⁵ ROPER, b. 4 February 1922, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. WILLIE MAE DAVIDSON, 8 September 1943, Paris, Texas.
	ii.		LUTHER BABE ROPER, b. 21 May 1924, Morgan County, Alabama; m. (1) LILLIE MAE ENGLE, July 1943, Morgan County, Alabama; m. (2) WILMA WOODS, 2 February 1953; m. (3) MARTHA BROWN, 24 February 1979.
	iii.		ANNIE LOU ROPER, b. 15 September 1925, Morgan County, Alabama; m. DANIEL ROY SR. LEE, 6 June 1955, Morgan County, Alabama.

Notes for DANIEL ROY SR. LEE:
Burial in Roselawn Cemetery, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama

iv.

ANNIE LAURA ROPER, b. 15 September 1925, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 2 June 1954; m. DANIEL ROY SR. LEE, 31 December 1951, Iuka, Mississippi.

Notes for DANIEL ROY SR. LEE:
Burial in Roselawn Cemetery, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama

	v.		JOHN HOOVER ROPER, b. 6 November 1929, Morgan County, Alabama; m. NANNIE FAYE LEWIS, 11 October 1947, Morgan County, Alabama.
	vi.		WILLIAM EUIN SR. ROPER, b. 18 March 1934, Morgan County, Alabama; m. (1) ETHEL MAE AVANT; m. (2) RUTH INEZ TRAHAN.

Notes for RUTH INEZ TRAHAN:
Burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Bremen, Haralson County, Georgia

vii.

MABLE ANN ROPER, b. 5 August 1939, Austinville, Morgan County, Alabama; m. JAMES KENNETH ROAN, 23 December 1959, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama.

Notes for JAMES KENNETH ROAN:
Burial: Burningtree Cemetery, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama

27. CHARLES P.⁴ OWENS (ALICE E.³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born August 1886 in Lawrence County, Alabama. He married MAUDE D. UNKNOWN.

Child of CHARLES OWENS and MAUDE UNKNOWN is:

PAULINE I.⁵ OWENS, b. 1900, Lawrence County, Alabama.

28. JAMES WILLIAM⁴ OWENS (ALICE E.³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 18 February 1890 in Lawrence County, Alabama. He married SARAH FRANCES HOLMES 6 April 1911 in Morgan County, Alabama.

Child of JAMES OWENS and SARAH HOLMES is:

ACIE HOWARD⁵ OWENS, b. 17 May 1917, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. BEULAH FRANCES HOLMES, 14 November 1936, Morgan County, Alabama.

29. HALLIE B.⁴ OWENS (ALICE E.³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born April 1892 in Lawrence County, Alabama²⁹, and died April 1987 in Crane Hill, Alabama 35053³⁰. She married JOSEPH T. SPEAKMAN.

Children of HALLIE OWENS and JOSEPH SPEAKMAN are:

	i.		RUBY⁵ SPEAKMAN, b. 1911.
	ii.		ETHEL SPEAKMAN, b. 1914.
	iii.		JAMES K. SPEAKMAN, b. 19 August 1915³¹; d. November 1966³².
	iv.		WILLIE SPEAKMAN, b. 4 August 1918³³; d. December 1985, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama 35215³⁴.

30. MONROE WILLIAM⁴ RHODES (DANIEL WEBSTER³, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 24 August 1892 in Lawrence County, Alabama³⁵, and died 30 January 1966 in Longview, Gregg County, Texas³⁶. He married MARY HANNAH ONSTEAD 5 December 1917 in Ennis, Ellis County, Texas.

Notes for MONROE WILLIAM RHODES:
Dallas Morning News - February 1, 1966

LONGVIEW, Texas (Sp.) - Funeral services for Monroe W. Rhodes, 73, were held Monday in Welch Funeral Home. Burial was in Memory Park Cemetery. He died Sunday morning at a Longview hospital. Mr. Rhodes, a retired pipeline company employee, was a native of Alabama.

Notes for MARY HANNAH ONSTEAD:
Mary was buried 2 April 1973 alongside Monroe in Memory Park Cemetery in Longview, Gregg County, Texas.

Children of MONROE RHODES and MARY ONSTEAD are:

FRANCES LARUE⁵ RHODES, b. 19 May 1919, Garrett, Ellis County, Texas; m. WALTER EDWIN CARTER, 11 December 1957, Mineola, Wood County, Texas.

Notes for FRANCES LARUE RHODES:
Larue was a Dental Assistant.

Notes for WALTER EDWIN CARTER:
Walter served in the U. S. Navy during World War II, and was a career farmer.
He is now retired and he and Larue reside at Country Trails Care Center in Grand Saline, Texas. Their church affiliation is Church of Christ.

ii.

MONROE WILLIAM JR. RHODES, b. 22 December 1920, Garrett, Ellis County, Texas; d. 15 July 1998, Houston, Harris County, Texas; m. DORIS GLASS, 19 November 1954, Tyler, Smith County, Texas.

Notes for MONROE WILLIAM JR. RHODES:
Monroe W. Jr. (known as "Dusty" throughout his career) was a Corporal stationed at Camp Hood, Texas in 1942 and 1943 assigned to the Tank Destroyer Battalion.

He went to work for Humble Oil Company, later to become Exxon, and was a Senior accountant when he retired 1 May 1985 in Houston, Texas.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE 27 JULY 1998

M. W. "Dusty" Rhodes, 77, of Houston, formerly of Tyler, Texas. Born December 22, 1920 in Garrett, Texas, passed away after a courageous battle, on July 15, 1998 in Houston. Dusty dedicated 42 years of service to Exxon. After his retirement in 1985, he became a volunteer for CCHF Thrift Shop. He was a member of Westbury Church of Christ for over 30 years. Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Doris Rhodes, (2) daughters; Carol Carpenter & husband, Ed, of Tucson, Arizona and Nancy Schriefer & husband, David, of Houston, Texas; (2) grandsons; Alex Carpenter, of Flagstaff, Arizona and Kyle Carpenter of Tucson, Arizona; brother, Jack Rhodes, of Longview, Texas; sisters; LaRue Carter, of Mineola, Texas and Norma Gabler, of Longview, Texas. Funeral services will be Tuesday, July 28, 1998 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Forest Park Westheimer Funeral Home, 12800 Westheimer @ Dairy Ashford. Mr. Bill Love will officiate. Interment will follow in Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery. The family would like to extend a special thanks to Drs. William Fleming and Kas Saranathan and the nursing staff of ICU-Unit C of Memorial Southwest Hospital. Also a special thanks to Wanda Mattucci and Buppha Bunchein in the hospital's Plasma Pheresis Unit. In liew of floral remembrances, donations may be made in Mr. Rhodes' name to The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation or to a charity of choice.

Notes for DORIS GLASS:
Doris was previously married to Joe David Marsh in Stuttgart, Arkansas in 1944. He was a B-17 pilot in the U. S. Army Air Corps stationed in England and was killed in action during World War II. She and Joe David had one daughter, Carol Marsh.

iii.

NORMA ELIZABETH RHODES, b. 16 June 1923, Garrett, Ellis County, Texas; m. MELVIN NOLAN FREEMAN GABLER, 6 September 1942, Houston, Harris County, Texas.

Notes for MELVIN NOLAN FREEMAN GABLER:
Melvin and Norma met during a Texas oil "boom". In 1934, Mel joined Humble Oil Company (later to become Exxon) in Houston, Texas. In 1936, he was transferred to Talco, where he worked with Norma's dad, Monroe W. Rhodes Sr. Although he met Norma at that time, it was not until several moves later that their friendship blossomed.

In 1942 Mel took a leave of absence from Humble to join the Army Air Corps. He was stationed at Ellington Field near Houston for a time, then at Bangor, Maine between 1942 and 1945. Mel and Norma were married in Houston on September 6, 1942, in a church founded by the Gabler family.

After World War II, Mel returned to Exxon and the family lived in various Texas towns: Benavides, San Diego, Aqua Dulce, Alice, Mexia and Longview. In 1957 they moved to a 68 acre ranch near Hawkins, Texas. (Mel says 68 acres is only a small farm in Texas).

Melvin and Norma developed an interest in textbook discrepancies upon discovering erroneous information in their children's school books and started a textbook verification enterprise that become known world-wide.

Their travels encompassed a lot of the world and their awards range from their selection by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as two of ninety-five individuals, world-wide, who had the most influence during 1982, to the Texas Senate Award of Appreciation for benefitting education. Norma was selected as one of 107 outstanding mothers in Texas History. Mel was a National Delegate to the White House Conference on Families. Their many honors include State and National awards from the Sons of the American Revolution and the Congress of Freedom Award (ten times).

They have appeared on these national television network programs:

"60 Minutes", "Good Morning, America", "Nightline", "Today", McNeil-Lehrer Report", "Crossfire", "Donahue" (three times), and "The 700 Club", plus hundreds of other television and radio programs. Jointly or individually they have spoken to dozens of colleges and universities, PTA meetings, conferences, civic clubs, parent groups and educational conventions. They have spoken in 45 of the 50 states - many time in some states. In 1977 the Gablers took a seven-week trip to Australia and New Zealand, where Norma spoke in eight cities in New Zealand and nine in Australia.

Although getting up in years and in semi-retirement, they are still active in these programs.

iv.

VIRGIL WEBSTER (JACK) RHODES, b. 29 December 1924, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas; m. RUTH EVELYN HIGHTOWER, 16 February 1947, Gladewater, Upshur County, Texas.

Notes for VIRGIL WEBSTER (JACK) RHODES:
Virgil Webster (Jack) served in the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and after the war was a haberdasher dealing in men's clothing and shoes at his business in Longview, Texas. He was also engaged in investments and real estate. On their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary, their childred treated their parents to a Caribbean cruise.

Jack is now "semi-retired" but still visits his office daily, is very active, and is an avid supporter of the Baylor Bears, the football team of the Baylor ( Baptist) University at Waco, Texas.

Jack and Ruth are also active in their church activities.

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