Jacob Rhodes

1749 - 1837  (87 years)

• Name	Jacob Rhodes
  Born	2 Nov 1749	Lancaster County, PA
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Mar 1837	Cumberland County, PA
  Buried	Old Roads Graveyard
  Person ID	I24098	Jacob and Barbara (Schenk) Hoover
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	John Rhodes,   b. ca 1722, Mannheim, Baden, DE
  Married	ca 1770
  Family ID	F9276	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barbara,   b. 1749,   d. 1824, Cumberland County, PA  (Age 75 years)
  Children	1. Jacob Jr. Rhodes,   b. 1795, Cumberland County, PA ,   d. 1824, Cumberland County, PA  (Age 29 years)   2. Joseph Rhodes,   b. 1819, Cumberland County, PA   3. Philip Rhodes,   d. 1824, Cumberland County, PA   4. Hannah Rhodes,   b. 1805, Cumberland County, PA ,   d. 1868, Cumberland County, PA  (Age 63 years)
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2016
  Family ID	F9275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Oakville United Brethren in Christ, Shippensburg, PA Oakville United Methodist Church (originally United Brethren in Christ) was founded 4 May 1806 when Christian Newcomer first preached on the farm of Jacob Rhodes. Jacob Rhodes gave some land from his farm for the first church building to be erected in 1816. The church has been located in Oakville since 1859 and a new structure was built in 1901. A sanctuary was added in 1961. The church built a separate Christian Education and Youth Development Center in the spring of 1999. -- From The History of North Newton Township.
  		The Rhodes Farm at Oakville, Cumberland County, PA The farm of Jacob and Barbara Rhodes, marked with a red dot on the left, in Hopewell Township, eventually also became the home of Joseph and Ellen Rhodes. A meetinghouse stood at this site, and a family cemetery. But a larger meetinghouse was erected in 1859 in the village of Oakville, the site of today's Oakville United Methodist church-house. Hopewell Township appears on the upper left of this map. Newton Townshp on the right, and Southampton on the lower left, of Cumberland County, PA. -- From H. G. Bridgens' 1858 Map of Cumberland County, PA.

  
  

• Notes

  Composite Record of Jacob Rhodes, Cumberland County, PA 1749, 2 Nov, born in Lancaster County, PA 1775-1783, served in the Revolutionary army during the American Revolutionary War. Purchased property in what became North Newton Township, Cumberland County, PA. Married Barbara (family name unknown). Experienced a genuine Spiritual Awakening under the influence of the United Brethren in Christ. 1808 and afterwords, became collaborator with Christian Newcomer, circuit-riding from the Beaver Creek settlement of what is now Washington County, Maryland. 1816 -- Founded a fellowship of converts at his homestead in North Newton Township, eventually building a meetinghouse for the believers that became the Oakville United Brethren congregation. 1837, died in the Lord on 4 March, buried alongside his wife at the Old Roads Graveyard on his farm. . The United Brethren Church, Cumberland County, PA, by John W. Kirafore Another nearby preaching place was the house of Jacob Rhoads and later the church-schoolhouse outside Oakville. This church was built of logs in 1816 or earlier and was also used for school purposes. There are eleven burials in the graveyard, which belongs to its successor, the United Brethren Church of Oakville. The News-Chronicle from Shippensburg April 29, 1938 The Oakville church is 132 years old this year. The first service of the church was conducted April 29, 1806, in the home of Jacob Rhoads, near Oakville. . Christian Newcomer's Diary 1808, January, Sunday 10th: This forenoon I preached in [Jacob] Rhodes? meetinghouse, and at night at Spangler?s, from Luke 2, v. 27,28. 1810, June, Sunday 3d: We had a two-days? meeting at Jacob Rhodes?, in Cumberland county. I preached from 2d. Corinth. 5, v. 19, 20; we had a blessed time. Rode this afternoon to Joseph Knegi?s. 1813, November 6th: To-day we had a meeting at Rhodes. 1814, April 12th: I had a meeting at Rhodes. .