Eliphalet Rhodes, Jr. (1789-1841)
Sarah (Sally) Gay Rhodes (1789-1870)
Caroline E. Rhodes (1831-1880)
Albert Henry Rhodes (1818-1818)
Martha Adelaide Rhodes (1849-1852)
Eliphalet Rhodes, Jr. was born on June 14, 1789. He was one of nine children born to Eliphalet Rhodes (1756-1833) and his wife Mercy Holland Rhodes (1758-1836).
On May 11, 1811, Eliphalet Jr. married Sarah Gay. Sarah, known as Sally, was the daughter of Thaddeus Gay and Charlotte Coburn Gay. She was born on July 17, 1789.
Eliphalet Jr. and Sally had eight children: Albert Henry, Francis, Irene, Albert H., Sarah Jane, Lyman, Caroline E., and John Wesley.
Albert Henry Rhodes was born in July of 1818. Two months later, he died on September 26, 1818. He has a small stone in the cemetery.
In 1822, Eliphalet and Sally had another son they named Albert Henry. This second Albert Henry Rhodes married Rosina Niebuher on June 6, 1850 in Boston. He became a merchant in the city. He died in Boston on September 22, 1898 of prostate cancer. He is not interred in this family lot.
When Eliphalet Rhodes Jr. died on February 10, 1841, his son John Wesley Rhodes erected a gravestone in memory of his father.
Rear inscription on Eliphalet & Sally Rhodes obelisk.
Martha Adelaide Rhodes was born in 1849 to John Wesley Rhodes and his wife. Little Martha Adelaide died on December 21, 1852 of scarlatina at only 3. She was interred in the family plot.
Eliphalet’s widow, Sally Gay Rhodes died on January 15, 1870 of heart disease.
Caroline E. Rhodes was born on March 18, 1831 in Walpole. When she died of a cancerous tumor on December 13, 1880, at the age of 49, she was single and had been living with her brother, John, and his family in Medfield. Caroline has her own stone with acanthus leaves carved on its front.
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