Rodes, Levi T.

Born: 1831-XX-XX Fayette County, Kentucky

Died: 1890-08-08 Lexington, Kentucky

Flourished: Fayette County, Kentucky

Levi T. Rodes was a first cousin of Mary Lincoln through his mother, Margaret B. Todd Rodes, who was the sister of Mary Lincoln’s father Robert S. Todd. Rodes studied at Transylvania University. In 1860, he was a farmer and owned real estate valued at $21,375, personal property worth $21,737, and twelve enslaved people. Rodes spent the majority of his life in Kentucky, with the exception of a period in St. Louis during his early professional life. He married Mary H. Martin in 1859; the pair had no children who survived to adulthood.

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