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Subject: Re: Robert Kirkum Rhea
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:34:33 -0500 (EST)


Re: Who did Jehu Stephens Rhea belong to:

Here is how it reads. Court records indicate that all but one of Mary
Stephens Rhea wife of Robert Rhea, Jr. had left, a retarded son who was
living with James C. Wright, the administrator of her estate. Another son,
Louis L. Rhea, 1797-1861, married Martha Halloway 1807-1880, in 1824. The
author(Robert Perry Rhea) believes that another son was named Jehu Stephens
Rhea. From about 1816 to 1841, he lived in Preble County, Ohio where Robert
Rhea, a grandson of William was living. A Col. Jehu Stephens was a neighbor
to the Rheas on Cripple Creek in Montgomery County, now Wythe. It is logical
to assume that Robert married the daughter of his neighbor, there being no
other Stephens in the area, and named a son in honor of her father. That
Jehu Stephens Rhea and Robert Rhea lived in adjacent townships in Preble
County suggesta a kinship. Also, Robert's son James, named a son Jehu. Jehu
Stephens Rhea was born in Knox County, Tenn. whre Robert and Mary had lived
from about 1791 to 1795. He died intestate in Ohio in 1841. His wife was
Elizabeth Smith.

(1) Robert Rhea, Jr. was a brother to (2) Elizabeth Rhea. She married Martin
Luther Coyner They were married on April 20, 1792. She was at least 14 when
she chose William Gleaves as her guardian. He was married to Elizabeth Turk,
daugh of Thomas and Margaret Turk, of Augusta Co., sister to Thomas Turk Jr.
who was married to Ann Rhea, Elizabeth's sister, and siter to Margaret Turk
the first wife of John Rhea, son of William.(3) Ann (Rhea) Turk and her
husband, Thomas Turk Jr., moved to Tennessee and were living in Blount County
when he died in 1833. (4) Archibald Rhea's property adjoined his father's on
Cripple Creek. He and his brother, John fought in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774
under Lt. Jehu Stephens. He died in Knox County, Tenn in 1793. In 1809 his
widow Margaret, and sons, Archibald and Robert, signed a deed for property in
Wythe County that he had signed without clear title to William Love in 1785.
The deed was witnessed by John Sevier, Gen. James White, and Joseph Love. I
have the children of all these children if you want them. (5) John Rhea was
appointed administrator of his father's estate, and negotiated the sale of
his property on Cripple Creek. In Jan., 1836, his sister, Ann Rhea Turk,
devised her interest in John's estate to her grandson, George W. Turk. No
info on John's marriage or family.(6) Isabella Rhea, perhaps the eldest
child, married James McCleskey

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