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Francis Dennison Farley, b. 17 June 1809, was the son of Ebenezer Farley, 1775 - 1826, and Lydia Coolidge, dau of John Coolidge and Lydia Dawes, b. 18 March 1776.
My daughter and I have been searching for the ancestry of this Rhoda Rood, see above, for a year on the internet, and have had no better luck than those family members who searched for her for years without the world-wide web. I am praying that someone has her somewhere in a database.
Our Rhoda turns up on the Mass. census of 1850, a newly-wed, with her husband Francis (Dennison) Farley, a clerk, in Lenox, Mass. Her birthplace is stated as Conn. Her age is stated as 29, which would make her birth about 1720 or 1721.
She and Francis m. 22 May, 1749, according to a fan chart of the descendants of John Coolidge of Watertown, which I have. (Francis Farley's mother was Lydia Coolidge.) Rhoda's death date is given as 1861. I have tried to trace her through her husband's Farley line, through other Coolidge documents, and through the line of Rhoda Loomis, b. July 11, 1746, who married Ebenezer Rood, Sept. 6, 1770, according to "The descendants of Joseph Loomis in America." Rhoda (Loomis) Rood did have a child named Rhoda, b. 1774, but this isn't "our" Rhoda; she would have been much too old. Also, it appears from census data that Rhoda, daughter of Ebenezer Rood, never married.
I feel fairly certain that "our" Rhoda may be the child of one of the sons of Ebenezer and Rhoda (Loomis) Rood, but I am having trouble finding out anything about these children, Isaac, Ebenezer, John and Calvin.
It has gotten to the point where my daughter and I open a long-distance phone conversation with, "Have you found Rhoda yet?"
Any help that some kind soul might be able to give us on this matter would be appreciated more than you can imagine, unless you have hit one of these long-standing "brick walls" yourself!
TIA,
Sarah
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