Hendreck Rhodt (Later Henry Rhoads) 1st Married Elizabeth Ulrich Rheinhardt she died in Germany , together they had three Children, later he married sister of whom he married 2nd Catherine Rheinhardt , together they had 10 Children
1740 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
later known as Trappe, Montgomery Co PA
1760 Bedford, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
later known as Brothersvalley, Somerset Co, Pennsylvania
(Buried) Ursina,Somerset,Pennsylvania,Rhoads Cemetery on his tract of 1771,
near a farm that he owned at that time, near Brooks Tunnel on the B & O Railroad, near Ursina, in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania

Cemetery information on Cemetery is here
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/cemeteries/index-m-r.htm

Brothersvalley Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania
Somerset County Created on April 17, 1795, from part of Bedford County and named for Somersetshire,
England. Somerset, the county seat was laid out in 1795 and incorporated as a borough on March 5,

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Cemetery was farmed over and destroyed

Will Book No. 1, Page 5; Bedford Co.-
Henry RHOADS
d: April 07, 1774 in Ursina, Bedford Co., now Somerset Co., Buried at Rhoads Cemetery, Fact 1: Also known as Henry Senior Fact 2: Henry probably lived in Maryland and then settled in an area of Cumberland Co., PA which then became Turkeyfoot Twp., Bedford Co. and is now in modern time known as Somerset County. Fact 3: Perhaps he is buried in the Rhoads Cemetery, near Brooks Tunnel of B & O Railroad, Turkeyfoot Twnshp, Bedford Co. PA, now Somerset County. Fact 4: Will recorded in Will Book 1, page 5, at the Bedford County Court House, is dated January 28, 1774. Fact 5: Henry was a faithful member of the German Baptist Brethern Church, meetings were held at his Grist Mill until 1771 when his son Henry Jr. built the meetinghouse.

In the name of God Amen. I Handry Rhoads of the County of Bedford and Province of Pennsylvania Being weack in health but sound in mind & mamry do this Twenty eight Day of January in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred & seventy four mack and ordain these my last Will and Testament in following manner first I do ordin all my just Debts to be paid and next that ny tow sons John Rhoads and Joseph Rhoads are to deliver unto my wife Caterina in yearly and every year as shee is a withe the sum of fourteen bushels of gut and clean wheat and to sow or cause to be sowet for her use one quarter of an acker of flocks and also to plant for her use one quarter of an acker of Potatoes and I do further will in this my last will and testament that the said John and Joseph Rhoads shall keep and feet two couse for her use also as long as she liveth and provide fler wod or case the same to be done and let her life where I life now during her life time but in case she marris again then all the above articles are to be void and I do further order in my last will and testament that all my children shall have an eckwill part of my estate of the sum of Sixty Pounds before my wife Caterina shall come in for her thords and I do further order in this my last will and testament that if all my children are of one eckwill sheer of the Sixty Pounds to each of them then John Rhoads and Joseph Rhoads is to take no more in sheer with the rest of my children Because the plantation is not offreset for them and I do further will and mack over to iny son Joseph Rhoads one plow and all the geirs and one Bolt Horse or gelten and the harrow and all the tacklinse there unto Belonging which the said Joseph Roads is to have and has cot to the plantation in his bargain of Beying the same and I do mack and order in this my last will and testament that the ececutators of this my will shall Bay a piece of land for my son Daniel Roads out of the first payment of my plantation as for his eckwill sheer with the rest of my children will allow for the same and I do hereby ordin and appoint Michael Syll and Abraham both of the County of Bedford to be the ececutators of this my last will and testament and lastly I do hereby revoke and mack void all former and other wills by me heretofore made Declaring this to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I the said Handry Roads have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Signed sealed & published & delivered by the said Handry Roads the testator as for his Last Will & Testament in the presence of us who in his presence have subscribed our names & written hereunto.

Abraham Cable
Johanny Fraze (Gross)
Jacob Cable

April 12, 1774 John Gross & Jacob Cable attested to the fact that the above was the last Will of Henry Roads. The same day Michael Syll & Abraham Cable were appointed Executors.---end of will---

"Situated on the East Branch of Stony Creek in Brothers Valley Township, Bedford County---and surveyed the 6th day of May 1774 by Warrent dated the 3rd day of October 1773." This was the Henry Rhoads, Sr., homestead. His Will, January 28, 1774, states that Joseph has bought the "plantation." On June 19, 1773 Handry Rhoads deeded to Joseph Rhoads the following described property: "Lying in Brothers Valley Twp. Bounded by lands of Geo. Rimelon (Kimmel) on South and Michael Sell on the West and lands of John Rhoads on North, Bounded by a Creek with several courses to the mouth of said Creek and a west course from said creek to a hickory centaimny by estimation 300 acres. Consideration 150 f--- pluss subject nevertheless to the purchase money & proprietary suit rent due or hereinafter due" (Deed Book A, page 180, Bedford Co.).∼Although little is known for certain of Henry's early life, early records from the American colonies show him settled among a largely Palatine German immigrant community, with his original German name being Heinrich Rhodt or Roth. He likely immigrated with his father and wife Catharine from Germany to Pennsylvania around 1737.

Henry first settled with his father and wife near Trappe, Pennsylvania, where he attended the local Lutheran congregation (what became Old Trappe). However, in the 1740s, he left the church to pursue religious life at the Ephrata Cloister with Conrad Beissel and George Adam Martin, both of whom were leading members of the German Baptist Brethren (Dunkards). His father died there.

He and his wife had a large family. In 1748, they moved to Frederick County, Maryland. There, they joined the local Brethren church under the leadership of Daniel Leatherman, but became disaffected, as Leatherman rejected the Sabbatarian beliefs Henry had picked up from Beissel and Martin and continued to hold.

In the early 1760s, Henry and his family moved with some of George Adam Martin's congregation to modern-day Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after gaining significant amounts of land there. Here, he built a mill. He was elected to be a minister by his local congregation in 1768, and began hosting Seventh-Day German Baptist Brethren services at his mill until, largely due to the efforts of his son, Henry Rhoads, Jr., a meetinghouse was built around 1770 to accommodate the congregation. Known as Stony Creek German Baptist Church, it was ministered by George Adam Martin himself during Henry's final years. Henry was also involved in local affairs, serving as a Supervisor for Brothersvalley Township.

Henry's will is dated January 28, 1774, and his death was announced by Ephrata in 1774. He died in modern-day Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He was probably buried in a long lost family plot. Claims he was buried in a then non-existent cemetery are without evidence.