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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] John Ray and Polly Bolon
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:44:56 -0700
References: <004201bfd47b$e0e911e0$539ba6d0@penny>


I have a little information about her. She apparently married Elijah
Drake about 1808. Since the Drakes seem to be related to the John
Rae/Ray/Rhea/Rea I am researching I suspect that this Pheobe is somehow
related to him but more likely a granddaughter or something. Think she
is too young to be a daughter and she wasn't mentioned amongst the aunts
of Dicy (Ray) Perkins in the records that she gave to the Mormon Church
for the baptisms for the dead.

Now I do think that this John Ray/Rea/Rae/Rhea had a daughter named
Fareby who married Ezekiel Hudson. Perhaps Ezekiel Hudson was not her
only husband. I couldn't say. She was older and married Ezekiel Hudson
in 1801. Additionally, the elder John Rhea/Rae/Rea/Ray did have a son,
John, for whom I have no accounting of his birth, death or marriage.

This elder John Ray/Rae does seem to have gone first to Patrick Co., VA.,
and was there at least until 1787. Then there are records of some of his
children marrying in Grainger Co., TN., between 1797 and 1801. Some
think that he spent some time in Chatham Co., NC., and I suppose that is
possible. One of his daughters did marry a York but can't say that it
was a York from the family of Yorks that lived in Chatham (as some
think).

Warren County, Tennessee, Tennessee Cousins, pages 526-527. Rev John Ray
(Rae, Rhea, etc.) of Warren County, Tennessee. From Geo. W. Paschal's
"History of the North Carolina Baptists" p. 407: (1790) Three Churches
of the Sandy Creek Association were in Chatham Co., (N.C.), being the
church of Haw River, with 320 members, much the strongest church in the
Association, still under the care of Elder Elnathan Davis, who had as his
assistants the Licentiates Thomas Brown, Jesse Buckner, Thomas Cate,
Solomon Smith, Isaac Hailes, . . . Ray and William Witherspoon. From
notebook of Rev. Morgan Edwards, page 6: Sandy Creek Church. The House
is 80 feet by 26, built in 1762 on the lands of Seamore York. (My note:
John Ray was supposedly in Chatham Co., NC., around the 1790 time
frame.)

Now there was a definite relationship between the Yorks and Drakes also
but I don't know too much about that except for this:

(same as previous source) "I also find that Isaac Drake sold to William
Rae 130 acres of land in Warren County, entered August 19th 1807, and as
Warren County and this section was not bought from the Indians until
1805, you see they must have been some of the first settlers." "One of
the first Drake entries I find in Warren County is that of Isaac Drake,
who sold the 130 acres of land to William Rae. The I find in the old
Drake Cemetery an Abraham Drake, son of Elijah and Phoebe Drake - born
1808, died March 11, 1860." "Abraham Drake married Elizabeth York,
daughter of Uriah York and his wife Fannie Rae.

There is definitely some things to think about in the Tennessee Cousins
book by Worth S. Ray but I'm afraid that the Mormon Baptism of the Dead
records show that some of what he wrote was not correct. Worth does not
say that it is totally correct. He just puts these names together was
people who were there at the same time and who had probable
relationships. He made some guesses at what these relationships were
that are probably incorrect.

He also thinks that there is a Moses Ray in the ancestry of John Ray of
Warren Co., TN., and I think so also but so far I have not found who this
Moses might be. It would appear that the father of this John Ray is
likely the James Rae/Rea of Henry Co., VA., who died about 1789 but this,
too, is a guesstimation on my part because of the continued close
association of the Cooper and Bolling/Bolon surnames between the family
of this James Rae/Rea and John Ray/Rea/Rae/Rhea of Warren Co., TN.

Perhaps this John was a travelling minister for the most part and lived
in many places and will be really hard to pin down.

I would sure like to figure out some of this. I do think that there
could have been some Native American relationships for this family. My
grandmother told my mother that her grandfather taught her to count in
Indian. Too bad she didn't know which tribe. Her grandfather was the
son of Levi Perkins and Lucy Rhea, daughter of John and Mary (Bolon)
Ray/Rea/Rae/Rhea.

Johnita


Ferguson wrote:
>
> Jonita, a bunch of us are working on a John and Febra Rhea in the Hancock
> Co. area, and the story goes that Febra was an Indian found in the woods,
> the Rheas raised her and John Rhea (a son) married her. WE ARE SO STUCK.
> In your email you said:
>
> It has been suggested in the past that perhaps the following people were
> also children of this John Rae/Ray, but I now find that doubtful.
>
> Joseph M. Rhea
> Robert P. Rhea
> Looney Ray
> Lewis Ray (I think Lewis is related somehow, don't think he is a son)
> Pheobe Diane Rhea, b. 13 Apr 1790 (think she is too young to be a
> daughter)
>
> Do you know anything about this Pheobe Diane Rhea b 1790? Febra could be a
> nickname for Pheobe altho the dates don't really match, on the other hand,
> nothing I have on this family back this far tends to make sense to me.
> Thank you so much.
> Penny Ferguson
> London, KY
>
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