Samuel Rhoades/Rhodes of Ohio

I've run into a brick wall with my husband's great-grandfather Samuel Rhoades or Rhodes of Ohio. He married Ida Mae Dewey sometime around or before 1880. He seems to have dropped off the radar after that. Ida Dewey Rhoades/Rhodes had to put her two sons, Andrew Lewis (my husband's grandfather) and Harley in an orphanage in the late 1880s or early 1890s for an unknown reason, but it was probably that Samuel was no longer around and she had to provide for them herself and could not. She later married a man named Andrew J. Shuster. Family lore says that the orphanage in which Andrew Rhodes and his brother Harley were placed was in Ross County, Ohio, somewhere near Chillicothe, as best my husband remembers it.

The spelling of the surname is found both ways in my husband's grandfather's Railroad Retirement file. His birthplace is given in the RRB file as either Morgan Fork or Morgantown, in Pike County, Ohio. Later the family moved to Ross County, possibly Roxabell.