[picture provided by cousin, name withheld]24 June 1842 - 1 Jan 1919, Morganton, NC
*buried: Forest Hill Cemetery, Morganton
*nicknamed "Til"
*A charter member of the First Baptist Church of Morganton, North Carolina.
*appears in the 1850 census: Burke Co., NC, age 8
*appears in the 1870 census: Linville, Burke Co., NC
*appears in the 1900 census: Morganton, Burke Co., NC; age 57, wife
*appears in the 1910 census: Morganton, Burke Co., NC; age 67, wife
*The following is a transcription of a newspaper clipping, dated October 26, 1878 (sixty years old when found in the Bible of Leah M. Turner in October 1938) reads:
"RODERICK FAMILY REUNION
On the 26th of October last a reunion of Daniel Roderick's family was held at the old homestead in Linville Township, Burke County. There were forty-five relatives present. Daniel Roderick died in the year 1860, at the age of fifty-six years, leaving his wife, Elizabeth who is now living at the advanced age of seventy-eight years and was present at the above mentioned occasion. At the death of her husband, Mrs. Roderick was left with a large family to raise. She has three children dead, and eleven living, all of whom are married and are members of some branch of the Christian church.
She has sixty-four grandchildren, six of whom are married and fourteen great-grandchildren. Her descendants with their wives and husbands number one hundred and nine persons of whom ninety-seven are now living. All these descendants were possessed with good minds and none of them ever had a law suit or have been imprisoned for crime, thus fulfilling the passage by scripture: 'Train up a child in the way it should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.'"
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