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Subject: [RHEA-L] Re: Phereba Ray/Rhea of Warren Co. TN and Blount Co. AL
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:06:34 EDT
In a message dated Sun, 12 Sep 1999 , Penny Ferguson writes:
>Hello, this is Penny Ferguson in London KY and a bunch of us are stuck
>on Febra Rhea. She is suppose to be an Indian that the Rhea family raised
>and then John Rhea, one of the sons married. This all happened in what is
>now Hancock Co. TN and we are very stuck on this family and can not tie them
>in with any other Rheas/Rays. Your name Phereba seems so close to our Febra.
>Time period is around 1800. What do you think?
I have a Pheraby Rhea in my file who married in Lincoln Co., TN. Various
spellings of her first name were:
Feraby A., Phebe An,Phobeau
I have no parents for her and it is possible that she may have been a sister
or other relative of my brick wall ancestor Pleasant Vincent Uriah (or Eli)
Jackson Harris(on?) Glenn Rhea of Lincoln Co., TN and Hood Co., TX. P. V. was
probably not the son of John and Sally Rhea of Lincoln Co., TN. by the way.
Both Pheraby and P. V. were born in the 1820's in probably in Lincoln or
Bedford counties, TN. No one researching them that I have corresponded with
has been able to identify parents for either one of them.
Pheraby married John Bedwell in Lincoln Co., TN. P. V. Rhea married Mary
Elizabeth Fannin(g) in Bedford Co. TN.
1 John B. Bedwell
Birth: abt 1830, TN
1850 Census Lincoln County, TN family # 584
Research: Marriages Lincoln County, TN
Spouse: Pheraby Rhea
Birth: abt 1828, TN
Death: 27 Aug 1857
Marr: 19 Mar 1845, Lincoln County, TN
Children: Greenberry (1847-1893)
Jacob Marion (~1848-)
Jesse (1851-1885)
Mary (1855-)
John Petaway (1857-)
1.1 Greenberry Bedwell
Birth: 15 Feb 1847, TN
Death: 25 Jan 1893
1850 Census Lincoln County, TN family # 584
Greenburg
Spouse: Frances M. Duncan
Marr: 1 Jan 1868, Lincoln Co., TN
Children: John Wilson (1870-1908)
Judge M. (1868-)
Jesse James (1873-1960)
Ada (1876-1901)
1.2 Jacob Marion Bedwell
Birth: abt 1848, TN
1850 Census Lincoln County, TN family # 584
Spouse: Sarah P. Duncan
Birth: 1846, Tennessee
Children: Susan A. (1874-)
Fannie Fuller (1876-)
Willie Green (1878-)
Sally Maud (1880-)
Prudance (ca1882-)
Robert Lee (1884-)
1.3 Jesse Bedwell
Birth: 15 Mar 1851, Lincoln Co., TN
Death: 19 Sep 1885
Spouse: Ellyn
1.4 Mary Bedwell
Birth: 1855, Lincoln Co., TN
1.5 John Petaway Bedwell
Birth: 1857, Lincoln Co., TN
Spouse: Elizabeth Evans
Marr: 2 Dec 1880, Probably Stewart Co., TN
If anyone has any information on either of these mystery Rheas I would
appreciate it and would glady exchange what information I do have on them and
their descendants.
Denise
Santa Clara
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