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From: "A Strawn" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] John Ray and Polly Bolon
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:20:17 -0400
References: <004201bfd47b$e0e911e0$539ba6d0@penny> <3945D868.73B1@ix.netcom.com>


I think I have emailed to you before
I am seeking proof that
Thomas Ray/Rea was the son of
Andrew Rea and Henrietta (Grubbs)
Anita Strawn
Box 102
324 W. Retta St.
DeLeon Springs, FL 32130
904-985-4509

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From: Johnita P. Malone <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] John Ray and Polly Bolon


> 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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