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The Bury Bulletin, 1952.

County Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada 1858-1869 Volume 36 Kent County, Elizabeth Hancocks, 2000, Generation Press, Agincourt, ON:
Rhodes James R., 22, res Raleigh, born Canada married 1 Jan 1860 Dorothy Stover, 20, res Raleigh, born Canada.

Headstone Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Kent Co., ON, transcribed by the Kent Branch of the OGS:
side 1: In memory of James Rhodes died June 2, 1886 aged 86 years,
also Jane E. Rhodes died Aug. 31, 1883 aged 65 years.
side 2: In memory of James R. Rhodes died June 28, 1908 aged 75 years.
Dorothy Stover wife of James R. Rhodes aged 80 years.

Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 150-151:
James R. Rhodes, a prominent retired farmer of Raleigh township, belongs to an old English family which has been established in Yorkshire for many generations.... ...
     In 1860 Mr. Rhodes married Dorothy Stover, daughter of Peter Stover, one of the early settlers of Raleigh township, who was born in Pennsylvania, of German descent, and in young manhood moved to Nova Scotia. In the early thirties he came to the County of Kent with Col. Talbot, locating at Morpeth, Howard township, where he took up a Col. Talbot grant of 200 acres, James Stover now living on a part of it. Peter Stover married Martha Bury, who died aged seventy-six; he died in 1846, aged sixty-nine. Their children were: Elisha, who was drowned in Lake Erie; John, who served in the Civil war in the States; Jane, now deceased, who married Richard Lark; Elizabeth, a widow, living in California; Richard, now deceased; William, deceased, who was a farmer of Chatham township; Dorothy, wife of Mr. Rhodes; Joseph, of Sombra, Ont.; James, of Raleigh township, and Edward, a farmer of Raleigh township.
     The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes are as follows: Laura is the wife of Charles Keil, a farmer on Concession 8, and has three sons, Charles, John and James. William;? James, who is a farmer opposite the homestead, married Lena Keil, and they have two sons and two daughters, Nettie, Mena, William and Robert. Annie is the wife of George Laur?? a thrift farmer on Concession 8, and they have one son, Wilfred. Orlando, who is one the homestead, married Bertha Ritchie, and they have one son, Cecil. John, a farmer on Concession 7, married Bertha Buthroyd, and they have one daughter, Dorothy. Eva married J. J. Morrison, of Detroit, and they have two sons, Bryce and James.
     Both Mr. Rhodes and his wife are very prominent, active members of the Methodist Church, of which he is one of the trustees, and he gave very material assistance toward the building of the beautiful church which was completed in 1901. In politics he is a Conservative. The Rhodes family is one of the leading ones in the township. Mr. Rhodes is well and widely known and enjoys the esteem and respect of his fellow citizens in a marked degree.

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Peter Stover 1758-   Mathilla ?? ca 1760-   John Colbrook Bury 1764-1850   Elizabeth Traver 1772-1858
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Peter Stover 1795-1849   Martha Bury 1799-1871
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Dorothy Stover 1832-ca 1912