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From: Jackie King <>
Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY] Rhodes/Cissell question
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:41:25 -0500
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Melissa,

Thanks for addressing this. I am still working to sort it out but this
helps - I think. (The Rhodes line can be so confusing.) One more
question. Is your Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Mattingly and
Elizabeth Miles? Or could be we all be talking about another Elizabeth
Mattingly?

Linda - There would appear to be another problem with the Harriet Rhodes
listings. The site lists her migration to Kentucky in 1790 and her
father as Benedict Rhodes. Benedict was born in 1775 (census and
tombstone listings) which means he would have to have been under 15 when
Harriet was born. Not impossible but it caught my eye. The other problem
is that Benedict apparently didn't migrate until the early 1800s. He was
named by his father as an executor of his will in 1797 with no
indication that he was located somewhere other than Maryland. He married
in Washington D.C. in1801 and appears in Kentucky records shortly after
that. Having said that, Benedict does appear to have had a prior
marriage or relationship before his marriage to Eleanor at the age of 26.

If this Harriet indeed belongs to this Rhodes family, (and she probably
does), I think we may have to look for someone else as her father.

Anyone have any other sources for who she might be? As it stands right
now, Harriet louses up the CISSELL, RHODES and MATTINGLY lines.

Jackie

Melissa Young wrote:
> I am always glad to address this issue. There are two men that are
> commonly confused as one man. I believe it was Sr. Donnelly who got
> this confused and the error has been republished many times. My hunch
> is that the two men are related, but I do not know to what degree.
>
> I know a lot about the one who married Elizabeth Mattingly, because
> they are my 4th great grandparents. This man was named Ethelbert
> Cissell (no Augustine) and he lived his whole life in St. Mary's
> County. He and Elizabeth had one child, a daughter, who married George
> Morgan. I can provide proof through census records and public records
> that he never moved to Kentucky, he was a Justice of the Peace in SMC,
> and was not married to Harriett Rhodes. He is buried at St. Francis
> Xavier in St. Mary's County. His parents were John Cissell and
> Henrietta Knott.
>
> I am not an expert on Augustine Ethelbert Cissell, nor is he in my
> database, but I do recall that he migrated from St. Mary's County to
> Kentucky, was married to Harriett Rhodes, and had one son, Augustine
> C. Cissell. The stmarysfamilies.com website on the migration from
> Maryland page has been partially corrected. but still lists Augustine
> C. Cissell's parents as Augustine Cissell and Elizabeth Mattingly,
> instead of Augustine Cissell and Harriett Rhodes. The same website
> says that Augustine Cissell's parents are John Baptiste Cissell and
> Rebecca Unknown.
>
> To Linda Reno: if you read this would you correct the website? Thanks!
>
> Melissa Morgan Young
>
>
>
>> As long as Jerry mentioned a Cissell in his message on
>> Johnsons/Medleys/Rhodes - I'll ask this one.
>>
>> Who exactly is the Harriet Rhodes who is married to Augustine
>> Cissell?
>> His first wife was Elizabeth Mattingly.
>>
>> Jackie
>>
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