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Subject: [RHEA-L] Moses Rhea and family
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:55:29 EST


RHEA, Moses

Posted by Fathers Of The Ridge by George Rowland on Sun, 31 Jan 1999

Surnames: RHEA, RITTER, HUBBERT, CAMPBELL, SIMS, BRALY, MARTIN, LITTLEPAGE,
RUTHERFORD, GRAYSON, PINNELL, SWINDLE, PEARCE, TIENER, BARNHILL

Rhea
The known history of the Rhea family in Greene County begins long ago in
Warren County, Tennessee. On the 19th of March 1830, Moses Rhea, father of
Obediah Rhea (later of Greene County, Arkansas) made his will.
In this will Moses Rhea mentions his wife, Hannah Ritter Rhea; his daughter,
Polly Hubbert; a son, Joseph; a daughter, Jane Cambell; a daughter, Susannah
Sims; a son, James; a son, John; a son, William; and a son, Alfred. A grandson
of Moses Rhea, also named Moses, is also mentioned. This younger Moses Rhea
was the son of Obediah. This will was witnessed by Leroy Braly, Thomas Martin,
and Alfred Braly.

Obediah Rhea was born in 1790 in Virginia. He later married Elizabeth Emma
Littlepage and they lived near Pinson in Madison County, Tennessee until about
1836 when they began their journey to Arkansas. Obediah and Elizabeth brought
with them two sons and five daughters, leaving their oldest married son, John,
behind in Tennessee. The two sons brought with the family were Thomas and
Moses Boling Rhea. The daughters were Nancy, Elizabeth, Mary, Minerva, and
Emma Littlepage Rhea. The family settled near Old Bethel Church in Greene
County.

Thomas Rhea is buried at the Rutherford Cemetery in Craighead County,
Arkansas. Moses Boling Rhea is buried on the old Rhea farm just inside the
Lawrence County line near Highway 25. Nancy Rhea married James Edwards and
they lived near old Greensboro; at a later date they moved to Jonesboro.
Elizabeth Rhea married a man whose last name was Rutherford. Mary Rhea married
C. C. Grayson. Minerva Rhea married Clabourne Pinnell. Emma Rhea first married
a man named Swindle and later a man named Pearce. Emma's daughter, Mrs. Laura
Tiener of Walnut Ridge was the last surviving grandchild of Obediah and
Elizabeth E. L. Rhea.

Nancy Rhea Edwards died in 1913 and was buried at the Pine Log Cemetery in
Craighead County. Elizabeth Rhea Rutherford is also buried at Pine Log. Mary
Rhea Grayson is buried at the Mt. Zion Cemetery in western Greene County.
Minerva Rhea is buried in Lawrence County. Emma Rhea Pearce is also buried in
Lawrence County.

(Information for this sketch was provided by Mr. Floyd Barnhill of Jonesboro,
Arkansas who obtained it from members of the Rhea family.)

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