Person:Sidney Keller (1)

Family Henry Rodeman Married 20 Nov 1834 Pendleton, West Virginia

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Children

1. Mary J Rodeman,   b. 10 May 1843, West Virginia  d. 7 Nov 1926, Barbour County West Virginia (Age 83 years) 

 2. Louisa Catherine Rodeman,   b. 26 Jul 1836,   d. 14 Feb 1906, Randolph County West Virginia, USA (Age 69 years) 

 3. Ambrose H Rodeman,   b. 24 Feb 1838, Pendleton County West Virginia USA    d. 12 Mar 1920, Jasper County Missouri, USA  (Age 82 years) 

 4. Elizabeth A Rodeman,   b. 10 May 1843, Pendleton County West Virginia USA 

5. Julia Ann Rodeman,   b. About 1846, Pendleton County West Virginia USA   d. Oct 22 1890, Randolph County West Virginia, USA 

 6. Sidney Ellen Rodeman,   b. 17 Jul 1850,   d. 18 Sep 1883, Hamilton County Indiana, USA (Age 33 years) 

 7. Jacob K. Rodeman,   b. 1852,   d. 1938, Hamilton County Indiana, USA  (Age 86 years) 

 8. Solomon V Rodeman

Sidney Keller Rodeman / Henry Rodeman Sydney Keller, daughter of Adam Keller 1818-1888

According to EC Wyatt in an article entitled Rodemans, Kellers Remebered published in the Hillbilly date unknown "The history of the breaking of the grounds for the B&O Railroad appeals to me as my maternal grandfather Henry Rodeman was a lad ten years old and witnessed the laying of the cornerstone and often told the story to his children and the exact words you mentioned that Charles Carrol said, he also said. Mr. Carrol was 90 years old and the only living man that signed the Declaration of Independence.

This story was often told to me by my Aunt Mary Wyatt as my mother passed away when I was four years old. Mrs Wyatt was my mother's sister. Grandfather Henry Rodeman was born in Germany and when he was a lad of six years old his parents started to emigrate to Baltimore but both of them died on their long journey and he said he well remembered the sad day when he saw their bodies placed in the cold blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean, his Aunt Amelia Kauecht took him into her home. I never learned if she was aboard the ship or if she was already in Baltimore; some of the relatives said he got a job as water boy for the graders of the B&O Railroad but later his aunt apprenticed him to a farmer in Pennsylvania where he remained until he was 16 years when a stockman came to Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia) and young Henry for some reason didn't like the farmer's home so he ran away and went with the stockman and was employed on a farm for awhile but later got employment in Aaron Bogg's flour mill at Macksville, West Virginia, where he worked many years (the old Bogg's mill is still in operation, so I have been informed).

He later married Sydney Keller, daughter of Adam Keller and bought lands along Seneca Creek where the old Seneca Indian Trail passed through. He spent most of his life in those rugged hills with the exception of one year with his son Jacob in Indiana. Grandfather Rodeman passed away about 1872. They had three sons, Ambrose, Jacob and Solomon, five daughters, Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth (were twins), Julia Ann (your writer's mother) and Ellen......"

Henry was still living with his son Solomon in June of 1880 according to census records so EC account of his death in this article is incorrect

Possibly this is Henry Rhodeman/Rhodman. Henry was born abt. 1810, in MD. He married Sidney Keller, who was born abt. 1812-1816. They lived in Pendleton County, VA.

Written on the back of the photo: Grandad Rhodeman, 97 years old when he died, born 1810, died 1907 at Evanw (the rest is torn off) West Virginia. The photo was originally attached to a backboard. The writing on the back would have continued, but whatever was there originally came off with the backboard. Evanw (which is one of the words cut off) could have been Evanwood

Daughter of Adam Keller, lived in Pendleton County WV along the Seneca Creek