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Subject: 2nd part of William and Elizabeth Clark Rhea
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:48:03 -0400 (EDT)

The children of (E)Alexander and Sarah (Conger) Rhea who lived beyond
infancy were John Conger Rhea, September 19, 1836-January 8, 1913,(121) m.
Elizabeth J.Pollock on November 27, 1856, (112) he was a soldier in the civil
War, and moved to Kansas, then Washington; (122) William Leander Rhea,
November 11, 1840-July 7, 1854;(123) Sarah Catherine Rhea, March 26,
1843-March 13, 1866,(123) married Michael Pentecost on December 25,
1862;(124) Robert Milton Rhea, April 25, 1848-October 30, 1919,(125) married
Sarah Elizabeth Harvey, July 26, 1868,(124) and died in Galveston,
Texas;(125) Mary Evaline Rhea, July 4, 1851-August 12, 1875, (123) married
James Pottenger, August 26, 1867; (124) and Samantha Caroline Rhea, January
14, 1854-June 27, 1877,(123) married Julius Lane, September 30, 1874.(124)
After Sarah's death, Alexander Rhea married Mrs. Mildred/Meldora (Vest)Hittle
on February 24, 1880. (112,122)

Shortly after his son, Robert Jr., died, Robert married for the second
time to Elizabeth Hornbaker, the sister of his son's widow, Catherine, the
wedding taking place on June 28, 1835.(126) She died within six years,
leaving a daughter, Almyra Ann Rhea, born in 1837,(127) and married to Joseph
Siders on May 20, 1852.(128) by 1841, Robert had left Ohio where he had been
a justice of the peace for a number of years, and moved to a farm in Jay
County, Indiana. There he married his third wife, Hannah Peterson,?-May 10,
1888,(122) on March 25, 1841.(129) From this marriage, were two daughters,
Jane Sample Rhea, born 1842, who married Patrick Bolen on December 25, 1859,
(130) and Sarah Rhea, born 1844, (127) and married to Samuel Broughman on
december 2, 1860.(131) Robert died testate (109) on May 5, 1850.(132)
(2) Agnes/Nancy Rhea, married William Wells, the bond dated April 7,
1799.(133) (3) Archibald Rhea, the child of William and Mary? (Gay) Rhea
died in 1837.(134) He and Elizabeth (?) Rhea were the parents of two sons,
William Rhea and James Rhea, and four daughters, Elizabeth, Nancy Rhea, Sarah
A. Rhea and Mary
Rhea. The family has been "reconstructed" through the wills of Archibald and
his sons.Archibald named his wife Elizabeth, his son James, and his daughter,
Elizabeth, and "my children."(134) William named his wife, Mary, his brother,
James, his sister, Elizabeth, and his sisters Nancy Gatewood, Sarah A.
Reddin, and Mary Blakeman.(135) Nancy had married Pemberton Gatewod, November
10, 1830.(136) Sarah A. had married (?) Reddin,(135) and Mary married Aaron
C. Blakeman, May 3, 1832.(137) James died testate in 1847-1848, but mentioned
only his wife, Nancy Catherine.(138) .
Robert Gay, the father of William's first wife, Mary ?, bequeathed one-third
of his personal estate to his wife, Sarah, two-thirds to his granddaughter,
Agnes/Nancy Reagha and his land on Moffett's Creek in Rockbridge County he
devised to his grandsons, Robert Reagha and Archibald Reagha.(101) They sold
the property to christopher Surface in 1804, but Robert's wife, Elizabeth,
failed to sign the deed.(139) She relinquished her interest on January 21,
1813, seven days after the birth of her son, Alexander.(103)
William Rhea's second wife was Elizabeth Brownlee, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Mitchell) Brownlee,(100, 140) and widow of Thomas Nelson Jr.(141)
her mother was the sister of David Mitchell, one of the earliest settlers on
Catawba Creek, now in Botetourt County.(142) William and Elizabeth had eight
children: John, Alexander, Ann/Anny, William, Thomas, Elizabeth, Clarissa,
and Narcissa. Their names are documented in a Green County, Kentucky Circuit
Court lawsuit in 1819, Wm. Rhea vs. Brownlee Heirs.(140) They are also named
with half siblings Robert, Agnes/Nancy, and Archibald in an 1827 lawsuit,
William Wells et al. vs. Leonard Mudd et al.(143)
(1). John Rhea, who never married, died about 1812.(143) (2). Alexander
Rhea married Polly/Mary Allen, March 25, 1813,(144) and died testate in
March, 1815.(145) (3). Anny Rhea married David Hutcheson/Hutchason, the bond
dated August 6, 1805,(144) She died testate between May and July of 1812,
(147) leaving one child, Elizabeth Hutcheson, who died shortly after her
marriage to Leonard Mudd, June 28, 1826.(148) (4) William Rhea Jr., born
1790, (149) first married Isabella Abney, March 30, 1824, (150) and then,
Mrs. Tamer McKinney on September 8, 1845.(151) The 1850 U.S. census for
Barren county listed him as sixty years of age, Tamer, 41, Narcissa M. Rhea,
18, Isabella V. Rhea, 16, and William Z.T. Rhea, 1, plus three of Tamer's
children by her first husband. (5) Thomas Rhea, October 6, 1798-January 7,
1872, and his wife, Mary Winne (Bullock) Rhea, August 5, 1803-August 17,
1878, are buried in Marked graves in the Rhea cemetery near Greenville.(152)
The 1850 U.S. Census for Green County lists persons living with them as
Elizabeth H. Rhea, 30, Catherine M. Rhea, 19, Julia C. Rhea, 18, Thomas
Rhea, 16, John Rhea, 14, David Rhea, 12, Martha R. Rhea, 9, and James C.
Rhea, 4. (6) Elizabeth Rhea, August 17, 1783, married Charles Gum, the bond
dated July 22, 1800.(153) A genealogy entitled"Leaves from a Gum Tree"
purportedly includes descendants of this union.(122) (7) Clarissa Rhea
married Daniel Minton, February 28, 1822.(154) (8) Narcissa Rhea, probably
her twin, was married a month earlier to William Dills, January 8, 1822.(155)
She married Moses Blakeman on September 29, 1829.(156)

4. Ann/Anna Rhea married John Lockridge.(60,62) John's will, recorded June
24, 1799,(157) names seven children: Andrew Lockridge, William Lockridge,
John Lockridge, James Lockridge, Betsy Lockridge, Sarah Lockridge, and Ann
Lockridge.

5. Alexander Rhea married Mary Crockett on December 4, 1782.(156) In Bourbon
County, he signed a petition to the Virginia Assembly on October 25, 1788,
(159) and appeared on the tax list of March, 1791.(160 In 1799 and again in
1800 he claimed 200 acre parcels on Sugar Creek, a branch of the Tradewater,
in Henderson county, Kentucky, the parent of Hopins County.(161) The first
power of attorney for Hopkins County wa given by Alexander to his brother,
William, to collect his legacy from the estates of their parents.(162) He was
a wheelwright.(163) William Rhea, his son, owned a mill on the
Tradewater.(164) He was appointed with Polly/Mary, Alexander's widow, as
administrator of his estate in 1818.(165) William's wife was Mary.(166)
Alexander and Mary Rhea were involved in the John Rhea vs. Heirs of Wm. Rhea
lawsuit.(62) A Hopkin's county deed dated December 5, 1823, names his only
heirs as William Rhea, John Wilson and wife, Ellen, formerly Ellen Rhea.(199)
The name Robert Rhea appeared in Hopkins County as early as 1812, and
again in 1815 when he acquired through "Grants South of Green River" tracts
of land on Richland Creek.(167) By order of the town trustees, he surveyed
and replotted the town of Madisonville, the county seat, in June of
1822.(168) According to stones in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Madisonville,
he was born July 13, 1785, and died August 15, 1847. His wife Elizabeth M.,
daughter of Thomas Prince and Mary (Stallard) Earle,(168) whom he married on
June 5, 1823,(169) was born January 15, 1800, and died October 15, 1865.
Their four sons were Thomas Prince Earle Rhea, (Dr.) Robert Henry clark Rhea,
Washington Miller Rhea, and W.E. Wilber Rhea.(168) Robert Henry clark Rhea
practiced medicine in Union County, Kentucky.(170) Washington Miller and
Sarah(Hibbs)Rhea were the parents of fourteen children.(168) Questions
concerning Robert's parentage remain unanswered. However, one source attests
that he was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia.(170)Robert Rhea, the son of
William Sr. (see below under "Robert"), appeared on the Greenbrier County tax
lists for 1783-1786, coinciding with the birth date of the Hopkins county
Robert.(172) Robert had a son named Robert whose name never appeared in the
marriage records of Greenbrier and surrounding counties. He did witness a
deed for his father in 1802,(173) and was living when his father died in
1834.(90) Robert Jr. may have moved to Hopkins county to live near his uncle,
Alexander. Besides having land adjacent to William Rhea and near Alexander
Rhea, Robert knew children of Ann (Rhea) Lockridge. he purhcased a parcel in
Augusta County from Andrew and Sally Lockridge in 1821, then he and Elizabeth
sold it to John Lockridge in 1830.(171)

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