Sacramento County
Biographies
DANIEL RODEN
DANIEL RODEN, deceased, formerly a farmer in San Joaquin Township, was born in Tennessee, March 21, 1831, his parents being Allen and Mary Roden, both natives also of Tennessee. When he was very young his parents moved with him to Laclede County, Missouri, where he remained until about twenty-three years of age; and during that time, in 1852, he married Elizabeth Bridges, who was born in Union County, Illinois, September 23, 1831, a daughter of Calvin and Prudy Bridges, both natives of old Virginia. In her father’s family were eight sons and two daughters, all now dead, excepting the two daughters. Mrs. Mary Jones, the other daughter, resides in Laclede County, Missouri. When Mrs. Roden was yet a child her father died, and afterward her mother moved with her family from Illinois to Missouri, where she, Mrs. Roden, was brought up. In the spring of 1854, Mr. Roden and his family started for California with ox teams, and arrived in Sacramento County October 4. It was a long and tedious trip. Two or three of Mr. Roden’s horses and two head of his cattle were stolen by the Indians. The first year here he cultivated a piece of rented land, and then entered a quarter section of land in the northwestern portion of San Joaquin Township, and after that bought another quarter section adjoining. Here he made his home until the autumn of 1875, when he sold and bought the present homestead in the same township and on the border of the Cosumnes River. The farm property is now owned by Mrs. Maxfield and Mrs. Bates, widows. The present farm, of 320 acres, is rich land. Mr. Roden died March 14, 1881, and since then the farm has been managed by his widow and son. In the family there have been six children, viz: Isaac, who married Elmira McLaughlin; Daniel, who married Anna Maxfield; Jessie, wife of James Mitchell; Emeline, Benjamin and John,—all residing in this county. For many years prior to his death, Mr. Roden was not a very hale man physically, but his intellect and disposition were admired by all in the community, and he was faithful and kind to his family; was Democratic in politics, taking great interest in the public welfare.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 646. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.