James Rhodes ^{1 4}

   Another name for James was James Rhoads.⁵

James married Sarah Ernspiger, daughter of Samuel Arnspiger and Mary Ann Wilson, on 25 May 1834 in , Spencer County, KY.^{1 2 3} (Sarah Ernspiger was born in February 1818 in , Jessamine County, KY ¹ and died on 6 March 1854 in , Spencer County, KY ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Name: Jas Rhodes
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 23 May 1834
Event Place: Spencer, Kentucky, United States
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Sarah Ernnspiger
Spouse's Gender: Female

Citing this Record
"Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ9-YQ8N : 17 May 2018), Jas Rhodes and Sarah Ernnspiger, 23 May 1834; citing Marriage, Spencer, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 482,500.
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Family Archive #002, Marriage Index: IL, IN, KY, OH, TN, 1720-1926, "CD- ROM," This record gives no date for the marriage in Spencer, Kentucky but shows the names as "James Rhodes and Sarah Ernspiger".
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According to all the records currently available, Sarah's newborn daughter died on 1 Feb 1854, then 2 weeks later Barnet Rhodes died on 15 Feb 1854, and then 3 more weeks later Sarah died on 6 Mar 1854. Strangely the death location for the two children was in Shelby County, Kentucky but supposedly Sarah's death location was in adjacent Spencer County, Kentucky just to the south.
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