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Subject: [RHEA-L] Rheas in Middle TN
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:14:11 EST


The following are gravestones in Forest Hill Cemetery in Ashland City,
Cheatham County, Tennessee(just northwest of Nashville:
L[ee]. A. Rhea [wife]Mollie H. Rhea
Aug. 14, 1853 1862-1935
Nov. 26, 1920
Byrd L[ee]. Rhea [wife]Olivia N[icholson]. Rhea
Jessie H. Rhea 1890-1985
Nannie P. Rhea 1877-1959
Charles B. Rhea 1901-1941
Herman C. Rhea 1892-1939
Through obituaries it is known that Jessie and Nannie were sisters and
daughters of Lee Rhea and Mollie H. (H. given both as Hale and Hooper)
Another sister Mrs. Percy Carter was surviving in 1959 in Nashville.

There are references to a Bird S. Rhea(Ray, Worth, Tennessee Cousins) p. 549:
Putnam County: Bird S. Rhea, DeKalb Co. Commissioner on the Reorganization
Act to reorganize and hold election for location of county seat. He was the
grandson of Mrs. John Sevier (wife of Gov. Sevier).
(Acklen, Jeannette, Tennessee Records. Bible Records and Marriage Bonds, 1933)
gives the following: Bird S. Rhea married Anna E. Taylor (daughter of Isaac
and Margaret Taylor) Tue Jan 14, 1845

(Douglas, Byrd, Steamboatin' on the Cumberland, 1961) Record that B. S. Rhea
and his son, I. T. Rhea were in Nashville in the late 1800's as owners of the
Rhea river-rail terminal in East Nashville and owners of the St. Louis and
Tennessee River Packet Company. (The steam boats, B. S. Rhea, I. T. Rhea and
Robert Rhea, were owned by Tom Ryman[of the Ryman Auditorium fame] and named
for the Rhea's whose terminal he used.)

(Waller, William, ed.,Nashville in the 1890's,1970 mentions Isaac T. Rhea and
his son Robert Rhea(1887-1939), who later was an economist and proponent of
the Dow Theory [which partially answers a previous query of mine]

**I offer these varied pieces of information of people with similar names
living in close proximity. It is unclear to me at this time if there are any
close connections to each other or how they all fit into the greater Rhea
Family.

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