Another old and honorable citizen of Bryan passed away yesterday in the death of Mr. William R. Rhodes. While his feeble health for months past presaged that the end of his days was about to come, yet his death occurred when least expected after all. Out for a short drive with his son, Albert, he suddenly expired within two blocks of his home.
Mr. Rhodes was born April 28, 1823 in Green county, Ala., hence was in his seventy-sixth year at his death. He came to Texas settling at Huntsville in 1850; came to Bryan in 1869, and has lived here ever since. He was the founder of the Chatham Machinery Company, though first starting the gin business in his own name, and afterward took the late Col. R. K. Chatham into the business with him. Mr. Rhodes was in this business for nearly a half century, having begun it before the civil war, and taken it up again immediately after the war. He was a Mexican war veteran, and a Mason.
Surviving him are his wife and children as follows: Mrs. Fred M. Connor, Mrs. Jas. L. Connor, of Madison county; Mrs. John Q. Tabor of San Antonio; Mrs. Lucy King, Messrs. A.M. Rhoddes, H.G. Rhodes, Sidney E. and Miss Edith Rhodes, all of Bryan, and the two last named unmarried and still living at the old home. The interment will be at the city cemetery this afternoon at 4 o'clock conducted according to Masonic rites, by Bryan Union Lodge No. 129. Members are requested to gather at their lodge room at 3:30.
Sincere, unassuming, faithful to his duties as a man and a citizen, public spirited, and possessing a warm and generous nature, the patriarch who has just laid down the burden of life had warm friends while he lived, and leaves many such to mourn his departure, though death came while he was full of years and honors.
-The Eagle (Bryan, Texas) 30 May 1899, Tue. Page 2
Mr. Rhodes was born April 28, 1823 in Green county, Ala., hence was in his seventy-sixth year at his death. He came to Texas settling at Huntsville in 1850; came to Bryan in 1869, and has lived here ever since. He was the founder of the Chatham Machinery Company, though first starting the gin business in his own name, and afterward took the late Col. R. K. Chatham into the business with him. Mr. Rhodes was in this business for nearly a half century, having begun it before the civil war, and taken it up again immediately after the war. He was a Mexican war veteran, and a Mason.
Surviving him are his wife and children as follows: Mrs. Fred M. Connor, Mrs. Jas. L. Connor, of Madison county; Mrs. John Q. Tabor of San Antonio; Mrs. Lucy King, Messrs. A.M. Rhoddes, H.G. Rhodes, Sidney E. and Miss Edith Rhodes, all of Bryan, and the two last named unmarried and still living at the old home. The interment will be at the city cemetery this afternoon at 4 o'clock conducted according to Masonic rites, by Bryan Union Lodge No. 129. Members are requested to gather at their lodge room at 3:30.
Sincere, unassuming, faithful to his duties as a man and a citizen, public spirited, and possessing a warm and generous nature, the patriarch who has just laid down the burden of life had warm friends while he lived, and leaves many such to mourn his departure, though death came while he was full of years and honors.
-The Eagle (Bryan, Texas) 30 May 1899, Tue. Page 2
Another old and honorable citizen of Bryan passed away yesterday in the death of Mr. William R. Rhodes. While his feeble health for months past presaged that the end of his days was about to come, yet his death occurred when least expected after all. Out for a short drive with his son, Albert, he suddenly expired within two blocks of his home.
Mr. Rhodes was born April 28, 1823 in Green county, Ala., hence was in his seventy-sixth year at his death. He came to Texas settling at Huntsville in 1850; came to Bryan in 1869, and has lived here ever since. He was the founder of the Chatham Machinery Company, though first starting the gin business in his own name, and afterward took the late Col. R. K. Chatham into the business with him. Mr. Rhodes was in this business for nearly a half century, having begun it before the civil war, and taken it up again immediately after the war. He was a Mexican war veteran, and a Mason.
Surviving him are his wife and children as follows: Mrs. Fred M. Connor, Mrs. Jas. L. Connor, of Madison county; Mrs. John Q. Tabor of San Antonio; Mrs. Lucy King, Messrs. A.M. Rhoddes, H.G. Rhodes, Sidney E. and Miss Edith Rhodes, all of Bryan, and the two last named unmarried and still living at the old home. The interment will be at the city cemetery this afternoon at 4 o'clock conducted according to Masonic rites, by Bryan Union Lodge No. 129. Members are requested to gather at their lodge room at 3:30.
Sincere, unassuming, faithful to his duties as a man and a citizen, public spirited, and possessing a warm and generous nature, the patriarch who has just laid down the burden of life had warm friends while he lived, and leaves many such to mourn his departure, though death came while he was full of years and honors.
-The Eagle (Bryan, Texas) 30 May 1899, Tue. Page 2
Mr. Rhodes was born April 28, 1823 in Green county, Ala., hence was in his seventy-sixth year at his death. He came to Texas settling at Huntsville in 1850; came to Bryan in 1869, and has lived here ever since. He was the founder of the Chatham Machinery Company, though first starting the gin business in his own name, and afterward took the late Col. R. K. Chatham into the business with him. Mr. Rhodes was in this business for nearly a half century, having begun it before the civil war, and taken it up again immediately after the war. He was a Mexican war veteran, and a Mason.
Surviving him are his wife and children as follows: Mrs. Fred M. Connor, Mrs. Jas. L. Connor, of Madison county; Mrs. John Q. Tabor of San Antonio; Mrs. Lucy King, Messrs. A.M. Rhoddes, H.G. Rhodes, Sidney E. and Miss Edith Rhodes, all of Bryan, and the two last named unmarried and still living at the old home. The interment will be at the city cemetery this afternoon at 4 o'clock conducted according to Masonic rites, by Bryan Union Lodge No. 129. Members are requested to gather at their lodge room at 3:30.
Sincere, unassuming, faithful to his duties as a man and a citizen, public spirited, and possessing a warm and generous nature, the patriarch who has just laid down the burden of life had warm friends while he lived, and leaves many such to mourn his departure, though death came while he was full of years and honors.
-The Eagle (Bryan, Texas) 30 May 1899, Tue. Page 2
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