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Subject: Re: Blount Co. Tenn. and Rhea's
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 16:42:20 -0400 (EDT)


Re: Blount Co. Tenn.
Robert Rhea,Jr. moved to Knox co. Tenn.abt.1791, and then toBlount county,
Tenn. he was living in Blount Co. in 1850(per article Bath Co. Bicentennial
Book) when he died. Did Robert know the Rhea's in Tenn., children of Rev.
Joseph?

footnote #16 in the Robert Perry Rhea's references and notes, states that
Robert Rhea and Mary, Revolutionary War and War of 1812, Pension and Bounty
Land Applications, selected and Nonselected records, file W10235, Inv. File
233, b.L., Wt. 22548-160-50, National Archives, Washington, D. C. The file
contains many pages of interesting material, including Robert's own account
of places and dates of residence, and his military units and their movements
in the two wars. Signatures include his own and mary's, and of Mary and James
C. Wright their granddaughter and son-in-law. (James C. Wright m. Elizabeth
Rhea.

Robert was buried in the Chilhowee Primitive Baptist Cemetery in Happy
Valley, located in Blount County, Tenn. It is five or six miles south of
Maryville on the south side of the Chilhowee range.

Question: Were the children of Rev. Joseph who lived in Blount Co. Tenn.
also buried in this church cemetery? We know that most of the Rhea's in the
earlier period were Presbyterian, so was surprised to see them buried in a
Baptist Cemetery.

What did Blount Co. Tenn. offer. Land? and what else. It would be nice to
think that all those Rhea's knew each other.

The following excerpt is from Burns, Inez E., History of Blount County,
Tenn., (Mary Blount chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, The
Tennessee historical Commission, 1957), 278.
Robert Rhea who had fought in the Revolution and the Indian Wars, in 1823,
asked the Tennessee Legislature to give him a quarter section in the Hiwasee
district 'wheron to spend his declining years in peace.' In early records,
this cove is spoken of Rhea's Valley. Robert Rhea ws the first coroner of
Blount County and lived until 1850, and is buried in the Chilhowee primitive
Baptist Cemetery('Red Top')

I would be interested in discussion the Rhea's Valley, Tenn, and the Rhea's.
Any one who has info, please let us hear from you.

Pat

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