Person:Clifton Rodes (1)

Information on Clifton Rodes

From "History of Kentucky", by William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter, pg. 202:

Clifton Rodes, lived in Albermarle County, Virginia, near Ivy Depot; was a magistrate of that county and high sheriff in 1783-85. He was a private in the Militia of Louisa County, Virginia, in 1758, during the French and Indian wars (Henning). In 1788 he sold his plantation and migrated to Fayette County, Kentucky, and hought land in the neighborhood of Bryan's Station and David's Fork Church. He afterward bought land in Scott County, where he lived at the time of his death, in 1819, and there he is buried in the Rodes-Burch family burying ground. He married Sarah Waller, daughter of Colonel John and Agnes (Carr) Waller. The Waller family is a very ancient one, tracing the ancestry to Alured de Waller, who went to England with William the Conqueror and died there 1183. Many of the name have distinguished themselves by their patriotism, bravery and ability, so much so that the Waller family is considered one of the most noble, as well as most ancient in England. The Virginia Wallers are descended from Edmund Waller, who immigrated to America and settled in Spotsylvania County at an early date, and his descendants are found among the burgesses and military organizations as well as holding many civil offices. Agnes Carr Waller was the daughter of Major Thomas Carr (1678-1737) of "Bear Castle." Carolina County, Virginia, and Mary, daughter of Cornelius d'Aubigne, who left Wales between 1715-1717 and sailed for America, and whose ancestors left France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) because they were no longer allowed to worship God with freedom of conscience. Major Thomas Carr of "Bear Castle" was the son of Thomas Carr and his wife, Miss Garland of "Topping Castle," King William County, Virginia who was sheriff of that county, 1708-9.

Two of the daughters of Clifton Rodes married Joseph and James Rogers, of Bryan Station; Agnes married Major William Boone; Dorothy married in Virginia Capt. David Kerr, who settled in Scott County; and Mary Rodes married in Virginia Joseph Burch, who settled also in Scott County. This couple were the parents of Mary, wife of v|cc president John C. Breckenridge, and Maria, wife of Rev. J. J. Bullock, the noted Divine.

1.   Woods, Edgar. Albemarle County in Virginia: giving some account of what it was by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who made it. (Charlottesville, VA: The Michie company, 1901)
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   ... Clifton first lived at the foot of Buck's Elbow, on a place he bought in 1769 from Matthew Mullins, and afterward sold to Cornelius Maupin. In 1773 he purchased from William Lewis a plantation near Ivy Depot, which he made his home until 1788, when he sold it to George Nicholas, and not long after removed to Kentucky. He was a magistrate of the county, and served as Sheriff in 1783. His wife was Sarah Waller, and three of his children were married in Albemarle, John to Jean Stapleton, daughter of Thomas Burch, Dorothy to David Kerr, and Mary to Joseph Burch, brother of John's wife, and grandfather of Rev. Dr. J. J. Bullock, and the wife of Vice-President Breckinridge. ...