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Lewis Henry Rhoades
Papers, 1864-1966

BIOGRAPHY

Lewis Henry Rhoades was born in Fulton County, Illinois, August 1844. He crossed the plains with his parents by ox-team in 1848, arriving in Marion County, Oregon, in September 1848. Six months later Alfonso Rhoades relocated to a new claim in Clackamas County. Alfonso and Phebe Rhoades relocated on a third claim at French Prarie, where they remained until 1862, farming, stock-raising, and milling.

Catharine Parrett was born in England in 1845. Her parents, Samuel and Marie Parrett sailed from Liverpool in 1852, around Cape Horn, to Portland, Oregon. They arrived in 1853, settling at "The Mountain" near Newberg, in the Willamette Valley.

Catharine Parrett and Lewis Rhoades were married December 27, 1860. Their first child, Henry Lincoln, was born and died in Marion County, Oregon. Lewis and Catharine Rhoades moved to Shoalwater Bay, Washington Territory, in the summer of 1862, arriving at Ilwaco in August. Lewis Rhoades worked at the Daniel Wilson Mill. His father, Alfonso Rhoades and his four year old brother Lucius joined the young couple in 1863. The Rhoades moved to the first falls on the Palix River, to build a new mill and to establish their first homesite. In August 1863, Lewis Rhoades moved to Bruceport so he could harvest oysters at night.

Catharine and Lewis Rhoades were the parents of thirteen children. Phebe Helen was the first child born in Washington Territory in October 1863. In 1864 Lewis Rhoades walked to Olympia to obtain the land patent for the Sand Point Ranch, acreage two miles south of what became the village of Bay Center. The Rhoades established a home in Bay Center in 1874.

Beginning c.1877, Lewis Rhoades was engaged in oystering. The Occidental Oyster Company was a Rhoades family enterprise. Lewis Rhoades also served as a Methodist preacher c.1878. He went to Alaska on a Methodist mission trip in 1900. In 1910, Lewis Rhoades moved to Roseburg, Oregon, establishing "L.H. Rhoades & Co.: Hardware, Harness and House Furnishings-All Kinds of Second Hand Goods." He died of cancer in Astoria, Oregon, in 1913. Catharine Rhoades remained in Bay Center until her death at Rhoadesia Beach in 1927. Grace Rhoades Lang, their youngest daughter, lived in Bay Center until her death in 1969. Lewis and Catharine Rhoades and five of their children are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Bay Center, Washington.

    LEWIS HENRY RHOADES*     and       CATHARINE PARRETT RHOADES*
    b. August 20, 1844                 October 27, 1845
       Fulton Co., Illinois            Hever, England
       to Oregon, Overland 1848        to Oregon, by ship 1853
                 Married December 27, 1860
    CHILDREN

    Born    Champoeg, Marion County, Oregon

    1.  Henry Lincoln      b.March 26, 1862.               d.June 26, 1862.

            August 1862, Moved to Pacific County, Washington Territory

    2.  Phebe Helen        b.October 5, 1863.              d.March 19. 1931.
                                  m. G.W.Brown
    3.  Rufus Dee          b.November 24, 1865.            d.July 31, 1941.
                                  m. Ella
    4.  Jean Marie "Janie" b.February 22, 1868.            d.April 2, 1945.
                                  m. Harold J. Stearns
    5.  Minnie Belle*      b.December 3, 1870.             d.November 16, 1956.
                                  m. G.F.Goodpasture
    6.  Amy Joyce          b.March 25,1873.                d.July 28, 1949.
                                  m. Carl J. Kallgren
    7.  Charles Owen       b.March 12, 1875.               d.May 21, 1948.
                                  m. Emma
    8.  Mary Augusta*      b.August 8, 1877.               d.May 21, 1948.
                                  m. Howard Wilson
    9.  Alice Maude*       b.January 5, 1880.              d.December 3, 1942.
                                  m. Roy Seaman
   10.  Emma Catharine*    b.December 29, 1882.            d.October 29, 1959.
                                  m. R.M.Moore
   11.  Grace Darling*     b.December 5, 1884.             d.March 15, 1969.
                                  m. Frank W.Lang
   12.  stillborn daughter b.April 14, 1887.
   13.  Walter William     b.May 11, 1888.                 d.November 15, 1894.


 LEWIS HENRY RHOADES                    CATHARINE PARRETT RHOADES
    Moved in 1911 to                     Rhoadesia Beach
    Roseburg, Oregon                     Bay Center, Washington
    Died July 14, 1913.                  Died October 15, 1927.

 *Buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Bay Center,Washington.

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

The Lewis Henry Rhoades papers include correspondence, diaries, family business papers, records of the Occidental Oyster Company, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, sermons and short stories, written by Lewis Rhoades 1911-1912.

The collection is arranged chronologically, beginning with the papers of Lewis and Catharine Rhoades, then those of their eleventh child and eighth daughter, Grace Rhoades Lang, and concludes with the correspondence of Grace Lang's younger son, Byron Lang.

                                                             CONTAINERS

Series 1: Lewis Rhoades Family Business, 1864-1955.             1
Series 2: Rhoades's Occidental Oyster Company, 1877-1945.       2
Series 3: Rhoades Family Correspondence, 1895-1938;             3-4
             L. H. Rhoades short stories, 1911-1912;
             C. P. Rhoades: poems, stories, photos,
                     newspaper clippings, 1900-1942.
Series 4: Catharine Rhoades: Clipping Scrapbooks, 1870-?;       5-6
             Unused Clippings for Scrapbooks.
Series 5: Grace Rhoades Lang Correspondence, and                7-8
             Byron Lang Correspondence, 1941-1962.

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