Rhoda Bailey / Bayley 1785-1869 Corinth, VT

Rhoda Bailey, the daughter of Jesse Bailey and Sarah Thurston, was born in Newport, New Hampshire September 26, 1785. Rhoda moved with the family seventy miles west to Corinth, Orange County, Vermont. Her marriage to John Ford is found in the Corinth town records dated January 26, 1803. She is listed as Rhoda Bayley the family still using the old world spelling of the family name.---------- Rhoda’s husband John Ford is always referred to in Corinth as Capt. John Ford. His death record even refers to him as Capt. John Ford. Maybe because of his local prominence when recording the family of her parents the Thurston Genealogies include a short biography for Rhoda. It notes that she was the mother of sixteen children. We have only been able to discover twelve. I suspect the number is actually closer to the twelve than the sixteen.---------- There is a list of seven of the children recorded in the Corinth town records. The remainder are quite easily identified in town, cemetery and probate records.---------- Robert 1805, Jemima 1807, Sally (McCrillis) 1808, Polly (Southwick) 1810, John 1812, Francis 1814, Rhoda (Woodworth) 1817 Mercy 1818, James 1822, Wesley 1826, Mary 1837.---------- Rhoda and John are buried along with a number of their children in the West Corinth Cemetery. She died September 5, 1869, John November 3, 1867.---------- Rhoda is the niece of Mercy Bailey wife of Samuel Griffin