{"id":82779,"date":"2022-02-02T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=82779"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:22:35","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Introduction<\/em><\/strong><em>: In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series profiling descendants of the Mayflower settlers, focusing on Pennsylvania families. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestoryarchives.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AnceStory Archives<\/a>, and a Facebook group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/HistoryGenNEFamilies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today I continue my series on \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d continuing the focus of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-9.html\">Part 9<\/a>: an annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Mayflower Society hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lippincott in 1908. The event was covered by the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> and General George Washington\u2019s birthday was the celebration theme.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82725\" style=\"width: 656px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A110C9BFA1F116650%40GB3NEWS-115C7319C46002A8%402417994-115C731B03592998%401-115C731D56EA8038\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/philadelphia-inquirer-newspaper-0222-1908-mayflower-descendants.jpg\" alt=\"An article about the Lippincott family, Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper article 22 February 1908\" width=\"656\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/philadelphia-inquirer-newspaper-0222-1908-mayflower-descendants.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/philadelphia-inquirer-newspaper-0222-1908-mayflower-descendants-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 22 February 1908, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter of Hartford, Connecticut, delivered an entertaining and original address on Washington, which was followed with a supper and conversazione among Pilgrim offshoot cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. James Mauran Rhodes Jr. appears in the photo on the right in the above newspaper article. She was born Ella Brock Johnson (1882-1972), daughter of Robert Wilkinson Johnson and Julia Watts Hall Brock. It is probable that Ella was accepted into the Mayflower Society based on her direct ancestor Governor Thomas Prence, whose first wife was Patience Brewster, daughter of William Brewster. However, Ella actually descends from Prence\u2019s 3rd wife, Apphia Quick. (See more on her linage below.)<\/p>\n<p>Ella married James Mauran Rhodes Jr., treasurer of the Pennsylvania Mayflower Society and descendant of two <em>Mayflower<\/em> passengers: John Tilley and John Howland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82783\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-frank-mauran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-frank-mauran.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Frank Mauran, direct descendant of two Mayflower passengers: John Tilley and John Howland.\" width=\"457\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-frank-mauran.jpg 457w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-frank-mauran-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Frank Mauran, direct descendant of two Mayflower passengers: John Tilley and John Howland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is the family line:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, daughter of John Tilley<\/li>\n<li>Lydia Howland and James Brown<\/li>\n<li>James Brown and Margaret Denison<\/li>\n<li>James Brown and Elizabeth Bowen<\/li>\n<li>Abijah Brown and Josiah Humphrey<\/li>\n<li>Lillis Humphrey and Nathaniel Smith<\/li>\n<li>Sally Smith and Carlo Mauran, son of Revolutionary War Patriot Joseph Carlo Mauran<\/li>\n<li>Frank Mauran and Mary Aborn Rhodes (he married 2nd Mary Louise Nichols)<\/li>\n<li>James Rhodes Mauran Sr.* and Emily Borie<\/li>\n<li>James Mauran Rhodes Jr. and Ella Brock Johnson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Note: I found a name change on record, authorized by the House of Representatives and published in the <em>Providence Evening Press<\/em> on 8 February 1870, for James Rhodes Mauran Sr. He changed his name from James Rhodes Mauran to James Mauran Rhodes, and therefore his son\u2019s surname was Rhodes and not Mauran.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82785\" style=\"width: 792px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A134D149D8C5FB282%40GB3NEWS-134D2A7B0EC6A760%402404102-134D242D43DC8A68%402-13B8527CEE2ACA9A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/providence-evening-press-newspaper-0208-1870-james-mauran.jpg\" alt=\"An article about James Mauran Rhodes, Providence Evening Press newspaper article 8 February 1870\" width=\"792\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/providence-evening-press-newspaper-0208-1870-james-mauran.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/providence-evening-press-newspaper-0208-1870-james-mauran-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/providence-evening-press-newspaper-0208-1870-james-mauran-768x202.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Providence Evening Press (Providence, Rhode Island), 8 February 1870, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1871 James Sr. married Emily Borie, daughter of Charles Louis Borie and Clementina Sophia McKean. She published a book, <em>Recollections of a Great Grandmother: Dedicated to Our Grandchildren<\/em>, in 1925 with the help of her husband James Sr., who served as the Historian-General for the Society of Mayflower Descendants.<\/p>\n<p>A passage in her book explains why her husband James changed his name:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJames Thomas Rhodes died March 13, 1873 \u2013 dear Grandfather Rhodes was devoted to my dear husband, had adopted him as his own son.\u201d (p. 44)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82787\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-james-emily-rhodes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-james-emily-rhodes.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: former Historian-General of Pennsylvania Mayflower Society James Mauran Rhodes (1848-1925) and wife Emily Borie (1851-1929) from \u201cRecollections of a Great Grandmother: Dedicated to Our Grandchildren\u201d by Emliy Borie Rhodes, 1925.\" width=\"374\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-james-emily-rhodes.jpg 374w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0202-2022-james-emily-rhodes-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: former Historian-General of Pennsylvania Mayflower Society James Mauran Rhodes (1848-1925) and wife Emily Borie (1851-1929) from \u201cRecollections of a Great Grandmother: Dedicated to Our Grandchildren\u201d by Emliy Borie Rhodes, 1925.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Emily\u2019s account, James courted her while he was working with Henry Tiffany &amp; Co. to learn the wholesale business. Shortly after their engagement was announced, James received startup money from his grandfather, James Thomas Rhodes, to join the firm of C &amp; H Borie, owned by his future father-in-law Charles and brother-in-law Henry Borie.<\/p>\n<p>James Jr. died of a rare disease at the age of 35 in 1911. He too worked for the firm C &amp; H Borie. I found his obituary in the <em>Buffalo News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82789\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A143978A38D7BF942%40GB3NEWS-1729A71C8122C713%402419140-1728DCDB034E9A6B%4013-1728DCDB034E9A6B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/buffalo-news-newspaper-0413-1911-james-rhodes.jpg\" alt=\"An article about James Rhodes Jr., Buffalo News newspaper article 13 April 1911\" width=\"570\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/buffalo-news-newspaper-0413-1911-james-rhodes.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/buffalo-news-newspaper-0413-1911-james-rhodes-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffalo News (Buffalo, New York), 13 April 1911, page 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>James Jr. and Ella had no children, but the Rhodes line continued with other children born to James Sr. and Emily Borie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clementina Borie Rhodes married Edward Yarnall Hartshorne Sr.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Borie Rhodes married Clare Elizabeth Morris<\/li>\n<li>Mary Aborn Rhodes married Guy Phelps Dodge<\/li>\n<li>Frank Mauran Rhodes married Eliza \u201cLila\u201d Burr<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth McKean Rhodes married Samuel Franklin Sharpless<\/li>\n<li>Emily Beauveau Borie Rhodes married Seaman Deas Sinkler, son of Wharton Sinkler and Ella Brock (sister to Julia Watts Hall Brock mentioned earlier in this article)<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Maran Rhodes married Ethel Kidder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ella Brock Johnson Rhodes is a direct descendant of many Nantucket settlers and Quakers. Among them are: Peter Folger, grandfather of Benjamin Franklin, teacher, surveyor, missionary, and interpreter, dubbed the \u201cwhite chief\u2019s old-young man\u201d by the Nantucket Indians, meaning he was wise for his age; Tristram Coffin; and Dionis Stevens. The families married into the Barker, Starbuck, Pope, Giles, Hall, Coleman, and Gardiner lines.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more on <em>Mayflower<\/em> descendants!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note:<\/em><\/strong> An online collection of newspapers, such as GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;s_referrer=social&amp;s_siteloc=blog&amp;s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;kbid=69919&amp;pq=1&amp;prebuy=no&amp;intver=&amp;CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, is not only a great way to learn about the lives of your ancestors \u2013 the old newspaper articles also help you understand American history and the times your ancestors lived in, and the news they talked about and read in their local papers. 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