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From: Robert Rhea <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Nancy Winn Bullock- >Mary Winn Bullock
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 12:36:50 -0500

Concerning Thomas Rhea's wife: Her name was "Mary Winne (Bullock)." I
took a picture of her tombstone in the Wm. Rhea cemetery in Green
County, KY. In the 1850 census, Thomas' wife is listed as "Mary," and in
the 1860 census as "Polly," a common nickname for Mary .

Robert Pery Rhea

wrote:
>
> In Dick's chart it says Nancy Winn Bullock was married to Thomas Rhea, son of
> William Rhea Jr. and Elizabeth Brownlee.
>
> In my records it says Mary Winn Bullock. Doesn anybody have evidence that
> would point either way.
>
> I do have a book titled A Historical Trip Through Barren County, Ky. by CC
> Simmons
>
> page 151 second paragraph listing the children born to Edward and Hannah
> (Clark) Bullock: Fanny Paulina, who married Thomas Hargrove, September 28th,
> 1815; Hannah Rebecca, who married Joseph A. Moss, 1835; Catherine R., was
> married to John W. Bell, 1832; John Waller, who married Minerva Glover, 1833;
> Edward Isaac, who married Maria Emerson; David, who married a widow (name
> unknown); Robert, never married; Louisa, who married a Mr. Crockett, a
> relative of David Crockett; Harriett married a Biggers; Judith married Thomas
> Moss and Mary W. who married a Mr. Rhea.
>
> ***
> More on Edward Bullock, June 19, 1941 The Glasgow Times
>
> Edward Bullock, was an early settler in Mercer County, Ky. and the founder of
> Perryville. He was living there as early as 1815. he moved to Green County
> later where he lived for a few years. In 1827 a large tract of land south of
> Skeggs Creeek was conveyed to Edward and Hannah and their children by David
> Bullock, a brother of Edward, on which they located and built their home just
> east of the Tompkinsville road, near the old Wheelock graveyard. The brother
> David was then living in Richmond, Virginia.
>
> Among the more prominent members of the Bullock family who were related to
> Edward wer Lewis, a brother, member of the legislature, from Mason county,
> Kentucky; Rice, a brother, member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention
> that ratified the U. S. Constitution. He represented "Kentucky" county"; James
> M. Bullock, a cousin, Secretary of State under Governor James Clark; Samuel R.
> Bullock, a cousin, law partner of John C. Breckinridge; Winfield Bullock, a
> cousin, elected to Congress in 1820, died October 1821; Rev. Joseph James
> Bullock, first cousin, Superintendent of Public Instructions of
> Kentucky--Chaplin of U. S. Senate; Waller, a first cousin, married Maria Todd,
> an aunt of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. "Aunt Maria" as she was referred to by
> Lincoln in a letter copied in "Lincoln's and his Wife's Home Town." Aunt Maria
> reared Mrs. Lincoln.
>
> Pat
>
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