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Alonzo Daniel Rhodes (1853-1937)

From DUP Obituary Scrapbook:

Sat 11-20-37
LEHI.--A. D. Rhodes, 84, died at his home here Tuesday [November 23] at 1 p.m., following a several weeks illness. He fell at his home here Saturday. suffering a fractured hip and complications from the injury caused his death.

Mr. Rhodes was born April 17, 1853, at Lehi, son of Alonzo D. and Sarah Ann Bushman Rhodes, and had made his home here all his life with the exception of four years spent at Garland. Mr. Rhodes pioneered for sugar factories for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company in Colorado, Oregon, Garland and in Sanpete County. He farmed for many years and was one of the first men to grow beets for the Lehi Sugar Factory. Surviving are his widow [Harriet Elizabeth Stewart] and the following sons and daughters: Hugh and Jesse Rhodes and Mrs. Ira Racker, Lehi; Alva, John and Jasper Rhodes, Garland; Mrs. Elmer Beck, San Diego, California; and Mrs. Wilson Forest, Brigham City; 25 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a brother, Frank Rhodes of Rigby, Idaho; five sisters; Mrs. John Smith, American Fork: Mrs. George Briggs, Rigby, Idaho: Mrs. Will Neibaur, Newdale, Idaho: Mrs. Ephraim Empey, Ammon, Idaho: Mrs. Lois Amundsen, Los Angeles, California, and three halfsisters, Mrs. Addie Peterson. Lehi; Mrs. Henry Howes, Canada, and Mrs. Rose Green, Idaho. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

From Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.1127

RHODES, ALONZO D. (son of Alonzo D. Rhodes and Sarah Ann Bushman). Born April 17, 1853, Lehi, Utah.

Married Harriet E. Stewart April 19, 1875, Salt Lake City (daughter of John Stewart and Lydia Ball, former pioneer 1849, latter 1847). She was born June 11, 1856. Their children: Lydia Ann b. March 9, 1876, m. David Prior; Alva Alonzo b. Dec. 26, 1877, m. Ida Barnard; John Glenn b. Jan. 26, 1881, m. Emma Barnard; Julian b. March 25, 1883, m. Elmer Beck; William Jasper b. July 11, 1885, m. Ellen Capener; Prudence b. July 10, 1887; Maggie Marvel b. Jan. 18, 1889; Samuel Jesse b. July 31, 1893; Clifton b. July 16, 1895; Hugh Ralph b. 1897; Hulda b. 1899.
 
Elder. Farmer; overseer for Utah Sugar Company.

 

[See sketch on his wife, Sarah Ann Bushman Rhodes for more information on him.]

 

 

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