Format For Submitting Ancestral Sketches

The Huxford Genealogical Society (HGS) would be very pleased to receive your submittal of a genealogical sketch concerning a pioneer from the Wiregrass area of south Georgia or north Florida or for a descendant of a Wiregrass Georgia pioneer.

Ancestral sketches are published initially in the HGS quarterly magazine for review by the membership. After a period of time allowed for the submission of additions and corrections to the sketch published in the quarterly magazine, your sketch will be placed in a future "Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia" book publication.

Please submit sketches for an upcoming HGS quarterly magazine in the following format (as closely as possible). Sketches not submitted in this format may have to be returned to the submitter for further editing.

The following cutoff dates apply for the birth date of the ancestor who is the subject of a submitted sketch:

In the body of the sketch, please provide information about the subject such as birth date and place of birth, names of parents and dates and places of birth for them, etc (when known). Names of siblings may also be included.

Include marriage information such as name of the subject's wife, her birth date and place of birth, place and the date of the marriage of the subject and his wife. Include the names of her parents and other information about her parents, when known.

If a sketch of the subject's parents or their spouse appeared in a previous "Huxford Genealogical Society Magazine" or in a volume of "Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia," please indicate the appropriate volume number; e.g. HGSM, Vol. XXVII, #4 for a quarterly magazine reference and PWG, Vol. IX for a book reference as appropriate in the body of the sketch.

Please list the children and the children's pertinent information in the format depicted in the sketch format shown by the following table:

Sketch Format for Children
1. Name of child	b. date of birth d. date of death	m.	Name of spouse, date and place of marriage, birth date and place, death date and place of burial. Provide information about parents of spouse, if possible. You may also list other marriages of the spouse. List additional marriages in the following format: m. 1) name of spouse, marriage date, birth date, death date; son or daughter of (name of parents) 2) for additional marriages, repeat same format as for 1) above
2. Name of child	Repeat information for each additional children in the same format as above. Please list the children in their birth order.
3. Name of child
4. Name of child

If there was a second or third marriage for the subject of the sketch and there were other children by another marriage, list them after the first marriage and children in the same format as shown above. Also, please state what happened to the previous wife, such as death information and place of burial, etc.

In the next part of the sketch, after listing all of the marriages and children and their spouses, you should list other pertinent genealogical information such as military service, church membership, land transaction and/or location information, political information and anything else you feel would be of interest.

Note: Please list this information in chronological order whenever feasible.

The last part of the sketch should list the death information, such as when and where the subject, his wife, and their parents died and where they are buried. Also any other information you would like to add to your sketch.

List your documentation here. Please include copies of your sources or documentation whenever possible. Also try to be as specific as possible. For example, if one of the people in your sketch has an unfamiliar name, indicate if they were male or female. If the surname of one of the children's spouses or parents is unknown, please so state.

Please provide your name and mailing address. And email address, if desired.

If you use WordPerfect or Microsoft Word, please include sketches on a floppy disk or CD-ROM along with a hard copy via email attachment or via regular mail. You may also fax your sketches and documentation. Please notify the Library staff prior to sending an email attachment! We ask you to do this so that we can minimize viral infection of our computers. We do not open attachments without prior notification! We have virus prevention software, but that does not always work.

NOTE: Please report information in chronological order whenever possible and double check to make sure event dates are feasible. You would be surprised at how many DOBs reported in sketches are long after the father or mother have died. In situations where dates in your source information are obviously wrong, provide an appropriate comment to point out the error.


Levi W. C. Rhoden was born on June 15, 1858, probably in Lowndes County, Georgia. He was the son of William W. Rhoden and his wife Keziah Drawdy (Vol. VII), daughter of Levi and Rebecca (Carter) Drawdy (Vol. I). Levi married Annis F. Patten on June 24, 1877. She was born on April 10, 1858, a daughter of James Patten and Phoebe Mathis (Vol. VI). Levi and Annis were the parents of four children:
1. Mary Jane "Molly"	b. 6/11/1878,	m.	John J. Carter
2. Dave C. "Bill"	b. 8/26/1884, d. 10/15/1944,	m.	Lillie Mae Wilder, b. 3/26/1894, d. 10/19/1979. Both buried Sunset Hill Cemetery, Valdosta, Georgia
3. Roscoe Conklin	b. 11/14/1888,	m.	Bessie Creel
4. Fannie C.	b. 8/5/1892,	m.	Matthew Bennett

Annis F. (Patten) Rhoden died in 1894 or 1895 in Valdosta, Georgia. Her place of burial is not known. Levi Rhoden then married a woman named Minnie (maiden name unknown). They were the parents of three children:
5. Dora		m.	Leslie Dukes
6. Dollie		m.	Gus O'Neil
7. Lola		m.	Clarence James

Levi Rhoden died in 1916 in Valdosta, Georgia. The place of his burial is not known. It is also unknown when Minnie Rhoden died or where she is buried. *Contributed by: (Not identified here, but the contributor is included in PofWGA,* Vol. XI with this sketch).**