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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Rheas in Middle TN
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 02:29:39 -0800


Whenever I see these postings for Bird S. Rhea and now this one for Bird
L. Rhea, I have to wonder if and/or how they are related to my Sebird
Smith Rhea. It would certainly appear that they should be. Sebird Smith
was born 12 Feb 1795 in Virginia somewhere. His wife Nancy Cooke,
daughter of Robert Cooke of White Co., TN., related to the Cooke for whom
Cookesville, TN., was named. In later years, Bird S. Rhea and his wife
by surname Taylor owned the land which had been Sebird's when he lived in
White Co., TN. I can't seem to put them together with my Rheas right now
but think they should belong somehow.

Johnita

wrote:
>
> 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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