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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: Rhea 1799 Garrard Co. KY
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:35:37 -0800


Yes, I think this John may be the father of my Lucy Rhea/Ray. But who
is Moses Rea (1688-1742)? See the following:

16 Feb 1813. Warren County, Tennessee, Tennessee Cousins, pages 526-527.
Rev John Ray (Rae, Rhea, etc.) of Warren County, Tennessee. From Geo.
W. Paschal's "History of the North Carolina Baptists" p. 407: (1790)
Three Churches of the Sandy Creek Association were in Chatham Co.,
(N.C.), being the church of Haw River, with 320 members, much the
strongest church in the Association, still under the care of Elder
Elnathan Davis, who had as his assistants the Licentiates Thomas Brown,
Jesse Buckner, Thomas Cate, Solomon Smith, Isaac Hailes, . . . Ray and
William Witherspoon. From notebook of Rev. Morgan Edwards, page 6:
Sandy Creek Church. The House is 80 feet by 26, built in 1762 on the
lands of Seamore York. Thomas J. Barnes of McMinnville, a few years ago,
discovered an old Rae (Ray) graveyard, not far from town, on which there
were a few markers and about ten or more graves. The markers read: John
Rae died February 16, 1813, aged 74 years. Baptist Preacher. Nancy
Cooper (Prob. wife of James Cooper) daughter of J. M. Rae (Ray) died Jun
1, 1843, aged 61 years. Mary Brazeal, daughter of J. M. Rae, died 1811,
aged 42 years. Isham Rae died in the 21st year of his age. No dates.
After John Rae died in 1813, Moses Ray was executor of the estate, on
April 8, 1816. The witnesses to his appointment(?) were Daniel Payne and
Uriah York. (Uriah York was a son-in-law of John Rae by marriage to his
daughter Fannie Rae.) Moses Rae sold the land to Martin Johnston and
then Johnston sold it to Elijah Drake on October 3, 1818. This land was
granted to John Rae on April 1, 1815, Grant No. 6795. Mr. Thos. J.
Barnes wrote the writer: " I find Grants of land to Joseph M. and Robert
P. Rae in Overton County, Tennessee, from the State of North Carolina,
No. 844, made by John Armstrong, Entry Taker. 1812." "I also find that
Isaac Drake sold to William Rae 130 acres of land in Warren County,
entered August 19th 1807, and as Warren County and this section was not
bought from the Indians until 1805, you see they must have been some of
the first settlers." "One of the first Drake entries I find in Warren
County is that of Isaac Drake, who sold the 130 acres of land to William
Rae. The I find in the old Drake Cemetery an Abraham Drake, son of
Elijah and Phoebe Drake - born 1808, died March 11, 1860." "Abraham
Drake married Elizabeth York, daughter of Uriah York and his wife Fannie
Rae. Abraham Drake and his wife Elizabeth York had children: 1. Uriah
Drake m. Lucy Bright; 2. Washington Drake m. Mary Bright; 3. Murphy Drake
m. Sarah Drake York; 4. Silas Drake m. Nancy Grissom; 5. Phoebe Drake
never married; 6. Parazada Drake (1842-18887) married George Graves."
"Abraham Drake (Son of Elijah and Phoebe Drake) had a sister Elizabeth
Drake (1816-1890); also sister Mary (1813-1861). "Uriah York was born
May 17, 1784 & died Oct. 27, 1865." "In about 200 yards of the Drake
Cemetery is the Rae Cemetery". "Isaac Drake is listed in the first tax
book of 1812 as well as John Drake, Elijah Drake and Jacob Drake, Uriah
York and George Ray, and Lima Ray. Note the different spelling but all
these Drakes, Rays and Yorks resided in the same section." "Joseph Rhea
entered land in 1815; Robert Rhea entered land 1818. This is still
another spelling, but I am sure they were all the same family of Rhea,
Rae's or Rays." The name of Moses Ray (so spelled) is shown in the
United States Census of Warren County of 1820. Uriah York, who married
Fannie Ray, the daughter of Rev. John Ray, who "for forty years was a
Baptist Minister", had the following children: 1. Hulda York m George
Ballard; 2. Polly York m. Daniel Wood; 3. Elizabeth York m. Abraham
Drake; 4. Fannie York m. Wiley B. Huddleston; 5. George Washington York
married (1) Patsy Lusk (2) Thomas; 6. Uriah York m. Peggy Lusk. The
theory of the writer is that our Uriah York is perhaps a grandson of that
Seamore York, who furnished the land on which the Sandy Creek Baptist
Church is Chatham County, N. C., was built in 1762, and that the identity
of Rev. John Ray places him as the licentiate . . . Ray, who was as
assistant to Rev Elnathan Davis back in 1790. That locality, according
to the census of 1790 had about four John Rays, and Moses Ray, who was
the ancestor of the Chatham family of the name, appears to be remembered
in naming the sons of the old preacher, who had a son Moses, his Executor
in Warren County. Family of Rev. John Ray, of N. C. and Warren County.
Not having been able to secure an authentic list of the children of Rev.
John Ray, who died in Warren County, Tennessee, in 1815, report is had to
contemporaneous records of those named in different items. His children
were probably: 1. Moses Ray, Executor (b. 1767); 2. Isham Ray, died at
21; 3. William Ray (b. about 1772); 4. Mary Ray m. Brazeal (b. 1769); 5.
Joseph M. Ray (b. 1775); 6. Robert P. Ray (b. 1777); 7. Nancy Ray m.
Cooper (b. 1782); 8. Looney Ray; 9. Lewis Ray. Moses Ray settled in
Blount County, Alabama, had many sons and daughters who married into the
family of a certain David Moore. Rev. William H. Ray, born in Warren
County, Tennessee, Oct. 9, 1801, also a Baptist Preacher, settled in
Smith County, Texas and died 1875.

From Pam Stone, 13 Mar 1997. Also found this little tidbit buried in
Tennessee Cousins by Worth S. Ray. Thomas Ray and Matthew Ray were
headrights of Captain John Savage, (along with Richard Callaway), when
Savage patented 9000 acres in Northampton Co., VA., 21 Nov 1657 (page
375).
Worth Ray, on pages 526-527, then begins the lineages of Rev John Ray of
Warren Co., TN., speaking about the same church (Sandy Creek) in Chatham
Co., NC., that you wrote me about, and shows the relationship of the
York, Drake and Ray/Rea families of Warren Co. Later in the same book,
page 759, he lists the emigrant ancestor of the Ray family of Dyer Co. as
Andrew Ray of Virginia.

15 Sep 1786. Abstracts of the Eighteenth Century Deed Books, Franklin
County, Virginia, Volume 1, Deed Book I (1786-1789), Deed Book II
(1789-1793), prepared by Sara Motisher Beck, introduction by Anne Carter
Lee, cover by Elizabeth Eaton Moore, 1978, pg 14. Deed Book #1, pp.
101-103. September 15, 1786 - Deed. John Ray (Franklin County, North
Carolina) to George Turnbull (Franklin County). £200, 300a Both sides of
Maggoty Creek. Conveyed from Joseph Ray dec’d by Will to Andrew Ray &
John Ray, Heirs, CB. Signed John Rhea. Wit: John Short, John (X)
Chitwood, William Cavanaugh, Thos. Watts. Recorded October 2, 1786.

1 Jul 1806. White County, TN., Deeds, Book A, pgs 310-313. From John
Rhea, of Knox County, TN., to Thos. McCory, of the same place. For 200
dollars 500 acres of land situated in the middle district of the said in
the said State and on a fork of the Caney Fork called by King & Co.
McClures River on both sides of a path that leads to Chickamoga and
including the ford of river where said path crosses the same. Signed
John Rhea. Wits., R. Hart and Josiah Nichol, John Williams, and H. L.
White. 7 May 1809. Proven by oath of Robert Hart and also at Nov Term
1808 by Josiah Nichol.

This following submitted to the Mormon Church by Dicy Ray Perkins and her
husband, William G. Perkins:

Mormom Records at Endowment House, Salt Lake City
Baptisms for Dead
Film 183,383, Bk B, pg 97, 3 Aug 1870

Relative Name Place Born Date Entered Informant/Member Relationship
(of member)
Hannah Ray VA 3 Aug 1870 Dicy Ray Perkins Niece
Mary Ray Brezzal VA 3 Aug 1870 Dicy Ray Perkins Niece
Salley Ray Beasley same same same
Fanny Ray York same same same
Lucy Ray Perkins same same same
Betsy Ray Christial same same same
Salley Carol Harris same same same
Lydda Howell Briant same same same
Lottie Howell Bryant same same same
Isom Ray VA 3 Aug 1870 Wm Gant Perkins Cousin
John Ray VA same same nephew
Wm Ray same same same
James Ray same same same
Sherrid Harris same same same
John Howell same same same
Philison Howell same same same
Samuel Howell same same same
Berry Howell same same same
James Howell same same same
(Note: not sure if Wm. G. Perkins is a nephew of the above or a
nephew-in-law.)

Mormom Records at Endowment House, Salt Lake City
Baptisms for Dead
Film 183,383, Bk B, pg 76, 27 July 1870

Relative Name Place Born Date Entered Informant/Member Relationship
(of member)
Nancy Howell Ray VA 27 Jul 1870 Dicy Ray Perkins daughter
Polley Bolon Ray same same grandaughter
Patta Berry Howell same same grandaughter
Ritter Hudson Ray VA same same niece
Ruth Lockhart same same friend
Nancy Ray Cooper same same niece
Moses Ray same Wm G. Perkins nephew-in-law
Washington Cooper same same nephew in-law
Ezekiel Hudson same same same
Benjamin Lockhart same same same

WIMSAMS wrote:
>
> Dear Johnita,
>
> Three of us are working on John Rea/Ray/Rhea (1739-1813), a Virginia
> Baptist minister, whom we believe to be the son of Moses Rea (c.1688-c.1742).
> John Rea seems to have been active in the area of Henry, Bedford and Patrick
> counties (VA), before moving to Tennessee, where he died. Have you come across
> our John?
>
> Sincerely, Bill Simpson.
>
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