Rhoda Hammons St. Denis

1938-1982 · Hillsboro OR

Born 1938, Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Died 1982

Father: Henry Silas Hammons

Mother: Sarah Ann Lewis

Rhoda Belle Hammons was born on 26 March 1938 at Hillsboro in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, the youngest of the twelve children of Henry Silas Hammons, called Sy, and Sarah Ann Lewis. Her father gave his address as Hillsboro when he registered for the draft in 1942, and the family moved between Pocahontas and Nicholas Counties through her childhood. In April 1940 she was two years old, listed as Roddie, in a household with her brothers and sisters Syntha, Eva, Bertie, Clifford, Alfred, George and Lucy.

Her mother died on 30 July 1948, when Rhoda was ten, and was buried in Richwood Cemetery in Nicholas County. The older children were already leaving for Ohio: her sisters Eva and Bertie both settled in Stark County, and her brother Clifford stayed at Richwood.

Rhoda married Charles A. St. Denis, a Quebec-born veteran of the Second World War fourteen years her senior. Their daughter Mildred Lee was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, on 28 January 1958, when Rhoda was nineteen. The family went to California, where Catherine was born at Downey in 1965 and Rhoda, called Robbie, at Los Angeles in 1966, and came back to Rome in Ashtabula County, Ohio. There were four daughters in all: Sheila, Mildred, Catherine and Robbie.

Rhoda Belle St. Denis died on 5 May 1982 at Ashtabula, aged 44. She was cremated and her ashes were buried on private ground at Rome. A small flat stone there reads "RHODA B. ST-DENIS, MAR 26 1938, MAY 5 1982". Her husband outlived her by five years and lies in a national cemetery in Texas.

Parents

Sarah Ann Lewis 1900-1948 Henry Silas Hammons b. 1899

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial for Rhoda Belle Hammons St Denis (1938-1982), cremated, buried on private property, Rome, Ohio.

Find a Grave memorial 213373112, Rhoda Belle Hammons St Denis; photograph added by Leona, 2020.

Ohio Death Index, 1958-2007, and United States Social Security Numerical Identification Files, entries for Rhoda St Denis, as indexed on FamilySearch.

United States censuses of 1930 (Edray, Pocahontas County, West Virginia) and 1940, households of Silas and Henry S. Hammons, as indexed on FamilySearch.

Obituary of Mildred Lee Morrison, Burr Funeral Home, Chardon, Ohio, August 2019, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 213323593.

Ohio Death Index 1958-2007 and the Social Security Numerical Identification Files, as indexed on FamilySearch; 1940 United States census, household of Henry S. Hammons, as indexed on FamilySearch; Find a Grave memorial 213373112 (her marker, family notes); obituary of Mildred Lee Morrison, 2019, on Find a Grave memorial 213323593; obituary of Clifford Hammons, Simons-Coleman Funeral Home, Richwood, 2022, on Find a Grave memorial 239517531.

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Researched October 2026. Cite: Heirology, "Rhoda Hammons St. Denis (1938-1982)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/rhoda-hammons-st-denis-1938-1982-772578.