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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Ezekial Rhea
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:06:26 -0700


Yes, I will glad to share any information I have on this line. I descend
from Ezekiel Rhea through his son Sebird Rhea. I have not at this point,
nor has anyone else that I know of, made a connection to the Moses Wray
who died about 1802 in Franklin Co., VA. This Moses Wray did have a son
Ezekiel but think there were more than one Ezekiel of about the same age
and this needs to be carefully checked out. We do know that Ezekiel's
wife was Elizabeth Pryor but we are not absolutely sure of her parentage.
Most think it is Richard Pryor and Mourning Thompson.

I just returned from a Rhea Family Reunion in Princeton, Mercer Co., MO.,
for the Sebird Rhea line.

I am also the team leader for the Ezekiel Ray/Rhea line for this mailing
list. Would appreciate any contribution you can make to this effort.

Anxious to hear from you.

Johnita


wrote:
>
> Can someone with more expertice than mine, who is working this line, please
> respond to Tabbye. I seem to recall this line goes back one more documented
> generation (Moses) but no connection to Scotland or Ireland has been
> documented.
>
> ED FOLEY
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subj: Re: Rhea Ancestry
> Date: 98-08-19 09:07:50 EDT
> From: (tabbye)
> To:
>
> The following was supplied to me from the family bible of my grandmother.
>
> "Father's (William Porter Rhea) people were Irish descent. Our Great Great
> grandfather had seven sons. All were in the Revolutionary War except the
> youngest one. He was too young. (He was our Great Grand father, his name
> was Ezekiel). He had four sons, William, Sebird, Moses and Ezekiel. Moses
> was our grandfather; his wife was Vianna Austin. She was a niece of Steven
> Austin. They were tillers of the soil, had big plantations and negroes
> galore. Grandfather died in or about 1850. Don't know where they were
> born, but in Virginia or Tennessee. We are supposed to be the decendants
> of the Rhea family that were driven from Scotland by the Catholics into
> North Ireland whose name was Archibal Campbell who was a decendant of the
> Duke of Argile. On account of the persecution, he changed his name to
> Archibal Rhea, taking his mother's maiden name. She was Jane Rhea. That
> family of decendants came to America. Rhea County, Tennessee was named for
> our Great Grandfather, he was Governor of Tennessee for a number of year."
>
> I cannot make any connection to a governor of TN., so I think this is in
> error.
>
> Ezekiel Rhea (possibly Ray) may have been born in Montgomery or Amherst
> County, VA. He married Elizabeth Pryor and died apprx. 1811. Elizabeth
> Pryor Rhea died in apprx. 1820 in White County, TN. Elizabeth Pryor Rhea's
> second husband was Smith H. Hutchings.
>
> Children born of Ezekiel & Elizabeth Pryor Rhea were: William b. 1792;
> Sebird; Moses b. 1799 VA, died 1850 AR., m. Martha Vianna Austin (b.
> 10-28-1801 Ky. d. 11-19-1858 Marion County, AR). Moses & Martha V.
> Austin had 12 children.; William P. Rhea b. 1792; Sebird; Ezekiell (had 6
> children); Mahala (m. Levi Lollar June 1840; lived in Platte County, MO.);
> Elizabeth b. 1802 (m. William J. Ray. After death of husband, changed her
> name from Ray to Rhea & moved to be near brother Seb ird in Mercer Co.,
> MO); ? daugher Rhea, m. William Edwards; ?daughter Rhea, m. Robert R.
> Tucker
>
> I descended down the following path: Ezekiel Rhea; Moses Rhea; William
> Porter Rhea (b. 3-7-1830; d. 9-8-1892); Eda Rhea (my grandmother - b.
> 7-17-1872, d. 12-12-1971, m. William Thomas Lawson; Louise Lawson
> Schiemenz.
>
> I am stumped beyond Ezekiel Rhea (Ray?) and Elizabeth Pryor Rhea.
>
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