In the year of 1898 Harrison Kay "Hack" Rhodes bought a farm five or six miles near Asheville on which he erected a small log cabin.
The family members which included Hack, Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes "Dolly" and the three children born in Asheville, Blanche, Harriet, and Catherine, would use this cabin in the summers and continue to live in Asheville in the winters. They did this until the year of 1906 when they decided to move permanently to the cabin and build additional rooms and areas in which to raise a larger family. This was the year Hannah Belle was born.
Tragically her life came to an end in 1908 when she fell from the back porch onto some rock steps and fractured her skull, and had brain fever and died. Ironically, it was discovered at or around the time of Hannah's birth that Dolly had leakage of the heart or some kind of heart problem. With this heart condition in mind she ask her huband Hack to bury Hannah on their home site so she could visit her grave and be near her baby. Near the spot where Hannah was buried were places where Dolly Frequented daily. The beehives, the grapevines, the chicken house, the apple orchard, and plum orchard were near Hannah's burial site and you can imagine the daily walks and talks Dolly must have had as her daily oaths of activities always took her near her baby's grave.
Please don't get the wrong idea about Dolly. She was no whimsical woman but the very opposite in nature. She had been raised in Ox Creek in Weaverville N.C. and had been taught by her early ancestors how to work and survive on a farm. She was schooled at Weaver Collage and later worked at the Pease House in Asheville. It was during thisperiod that she met and married Hack Rhodes, an early employee of the Norfolk Southern Railway company. They prospered while he worked and had a long career with the railroad and enjoyed a good life.
Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes born 6 Sept 1872 and died 6 Jan 1923 was to become the second person to be buried in the Rhodes Cemetery. Presently there are 25 graves there. It has been maintained and preserved by family members for nearly 100 years.
The family members which included Hack, Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes "Dolly" and the three children born in Asheville, Blanche, Harriet, and Catherine, would use this cabin in the summers and continue to live in Asheville in the winters. They did this until the year of 1906 when they decided to move permanently to the cabin and build additional rooms and areas in which to raise a larger family. This was the year Hannah Belle was born.
Tragically her life came to an end in 1908 when she fell from the back porch onto some rock steps and fractured her skull, and had brain fever and died. Ironically, it was discovered at or around the time of Hannah's birth that Dolly had leakage of the heart or some kind of heart problem. With this heart condition in mind she ask her huband Hack to bury Hannah on their home site so she could visit her grave and be near her baby. Near the spot where Hannah was buried were places where Dolly Frequented daily. The beehives, the grapevines, the chicken house, the apple orchard, and plum orchard were near Hannah's burial site and you can imagine the daily walks and talks Dolly must have had as her daily oaths of activities always took her near her baby's grave.
Please don't get the wrong idea about Dolly. She was no whimsical woman but the very opposite in nature. She had been raised in Ox Creek in Weaverville N.C. and had been taught by her early ancestors how to work and survive on a farm. She was schooled at Weaver Collage and later worked at the Pease House in Asheville. It was during thisperiod that she met and married Hack Rhodes, an early employee of the Norfolk Southern Railway company. They prospered while he worked and had a long career with the railroad and enjoyed a good life.
Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes born 6 Sept 1872 and died 6 Jan 1923 was to become the second person to be buried in the Rhodes Cemetery. Presently there are 25 graves there. It has been maintained and preserved by family members for nearly 100 years.
In the year of 1898 Harrison Kay "Hack" Rhodes bought a farm five or six miles near Asheville on which he erected a small log cabin.
The family members which included Hack, Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes "Dolly" and the three children born in Asheville, Blanche, Harriet, and Catherine, would use this cabin in the summers and continue to live in Asheville in the winters. They did this until the year of 1906 when they decided to move permanently to the cabin and build additional rooms and areas in which to raise a larger family. This was the year Hannah Belle was born.
Tragically her life came to an end in 1908 when she fell from the back porch onto some rock steps and fractured her skull, and had brain fever and died. Ironically, it was discovered at or around the time of Hannah's birth that Dolly had leakage of the heart or some kind of heart problem. With this heart condition in mind she ask her huband Hack to bury Hannah on their home site so she could visit her grave and be near her baby. Near the spot where Hannah was buried were places where Dolly Frequented daily. The beehives, the grapevines, the chicken house, the apple orchard, and plum orchard were near Hannah's burial site and you can imagine the daily walks and talks Dolly must have had as her daily oaths of activities always took her near her baby's grave.
Please don't get the wrong idea about Dolly. She was no whimsical woman but the very opposite in nature. She had been raised in Ox Creek in Weaverville N.C. and had been taught by her early ancestors how to work and survive on a farm. She was schooled at Weaver Collage and later worked at the Pease House in Asheville. It was during thisperiod that she met and married Hack Rhodes, an early employee of the Norfolk Southern Railway company. They prospered while he worked and had a long career with the railroad and enjoyed a good life.
Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes born 6 Sept 1872 and died 6 Jan 1923 was to become the second person to be buried in the Rhodes Cemetery. Presently there are 25 graves there. It has been maintained and preserved by family members for nearly 100 years.
The family members which included Hack, Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes "Dolly" and the three children born in Asheville, Blanche, Harriet, and Catherine, would use this cabin in the summers and continue to live in Asheville in the winters. They did this until the year of 1906 when they decided to move permanently to the cabin and build additional rooms and areas in which to raise a larger family. This was the year Hannah Belle was born.
Tragically her life came to an end in 1908 when she fell from the back porch onto some rock steps and fractured her skull, and had brain fever and died. Ironically, it was discovered at or around the time of Hannah's birth that Dolly had leakage of the heart or some kind of heart problem. With this heart condition in mind she ask her huband Hack to bury Hannah on their home site so she could visit her grave and be near her baby. Near the spot where Hannah was buried were places where Dolly Frequented daily. The beehives, the grapevines, the chicken house, the apple orchard, and plum orchard were near Hannah's burial site and you can imagine the daily walks and talks Dolly must have had as her daily oaths of activities always took her near her baby's grave.
Please don't get the wrong idea about Dolly. She was no whimsical woman but the very opposite in nature. She had been raised in Ox Creek in Weaverville N.C. and had been taught by her early ancestors how to work and survive on a farm. She was schooled at Weaver Collage and later worked at the Pease House in Asheville. It was during thisperiod that she met and married Hack Rhodes, an early employee of the Norfolk Southern Railway company. They prospered while he worked and had a long career with the railroad and enjoyed a good life.
Arizona Irene Jump Rhodes born 6 Sept 1872 and died 6 Jan 1923 was to become the second person to be buried in the Rhodes Cemetery. Presently there are 25 graves there. It has been maintained and preserved by family members for nearly 100 years.
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