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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1882 - 1974 (92 years)
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| Name |
Edwin Earl Rhodes |
| Born |
27 Jul 1882 |
Rock Valley, Sioux Co., Iowa, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
20 Nov 1974 |
Sioux City, Woodbury Co., Iowa, USA |
| Buried |
Mt. Pleasant Cem, Queen Hill, Seattle, Washington |
| Person ID |
I29464 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
27 May 2001 |
| Father |
Edwin Rhodes, b. 21 Aug 1846, Watertown, , Iowa, USA , d. 9 Nov 1899, Sioux City, , South Dakota, USA (Age 53 years) |
| Mother |
Rosalia Adeline Totman, b. 15 Apr 1854, Glen Ellen, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA , d. 8 Jan 1920, Pierre, Hughes Co., South Dakota, USA (Age 65 years) |
| Married |
7 Jan 1873 |
Cassville, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA |
| Family ID |
F10231 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Fannie Eliza Foster, b. 18 Apr 1886, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA , d. 13 Apr 1971, Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., California, USA (Age 84 years) |
| Married |
20 Jun 1906 |
Sioux City, Woodbury Co., Iowa, USA |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2009 |
| Family ID |
F13342 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Edwin attended school in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1900, after his father's death, he moved to Storm Lake, Iowa. He graduated from Buena vista College in Storm Lake. While in college, he was employed by the First National Bank.
Edwin was a very enterprising and ambitious person, sometimes working two jobs at the same time. By the time he was married, he had saved up quite a bit of money. He worked as a bookkeeper at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and at Farmer's Loan and Trust Company in Sioux City. In 1906, he went to Seattle, Washington to marry
In 1906, he went to Seattle, Washington to marry his childhood sweetheart. (They were married for 65 years.) There he worked as a court reporter, and worked in the missing persons department of the Seattle Police.
He lived in Seattle for 25 years and in Tacoma, Washington for 11 years.
Ref. (1) p. says he was born 27 Jul 1882, but p. 380 says he was born 9 Jul 1882.
References:
(1) "History and Genealogy of the Lexington, Mass. Munroes" by R. S. Munroe,
2nd ed. - Florence, Massachusetts (1986) - 13-87-15/4-3 - p. 245, 380
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA
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