WILLIAM H. RODMAN was born and reared in Lexington county, Kentucky . From this place he removed successively to Shelby and Jefferson counties, Kentucky , and, in 1833, to Peoria county, Illinois , stopping on the way with Abraham Lincoln, whom he had known well in Kentucky .

Four years later, in 1837, he removed to Henderson county, and lived two years in township 9, range 4. Thence he re­ moved to the S. W. 1 of Sec. 13, T. 9 N., 5 W., his home till his death in May, 1861. He was married, prior to leaving Kentucky , to Sarah Saulter, by whom he had twelve children, eight of whom are living.

 

History of Mercer and Henderson Counties.

 

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