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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Warren County, Tennessee Court Record
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:09:57 -0700
References: <20000722024858.45609.qmail@hotmail.com>


Hi,

I've been looking for you or someone like you who is interested in the Rheas and
Brazells. John Rhea/Rea/Rae/Ray did have a daughter who married a Brazell but
her name was Mary. I thought that Elias Brazell married Pherby and that Pherby's
surname was Hudson. Possibly Pherby was a first cousin of Elias Brazell and
could have been a daughter of Pherby Rhea and Ezekiel Hudson. Pherby Rhea who
married Ezekiel Hudson was also a daughter of John Ray/Rhea/Rea/Rae. There is
another possibility here also. Perhaps since Mary Ray Brazeal died in 1811 that
her husband (and I don't know his given name) could have married Mary's sister
Pherby (if Pherby had been widowed by that time) as her second husband and their
second marriage. I do have a marriage record for Pherby to Ezekiel Hudson from
Grainger Co., TN.

"In an e-mail from (Charla A. Marchione) about Grainger Co.,
TN., marriages, I found this: Ezekiel Hudson and Fareby Rhea, 3/3/1801, Moses
Rhea, bondsman."

Mary Brazeal who was the daughter of John Rae is buried in Warren Co., TN.,
according to Worth Ray's book, Tennessee Cousins.

"The markers read: John Rae died February 16, 1813, aged 74 years. Baptist
Preacher. Nancy Cooper (Prob. wife of James Cooper) daughter of J. M. Rae (Ray)
died Jun 1, 1843, aged 61 years. Mary Brazeal, daughter of J. M. Rae, died 1811,
aged 42 years. Isham Rae died in the 21st year of his age. No dates." (My
Note: Worth was in error about Nancy Rae Cooper. Her husband was George
Washington Cooper. Isham seems to have been a grandson or something but not a
son.)

Dicy (Ray) Perkins, wife of William G. Perkins and daughter of Aaron Ray and
granddaughter of John M. Rae, gives the names of her aunts in the Mormon Baptist
of the Dead records and lists:

Mormom Records at Endowment House, Salt Lake City
Baptisms for Dead
Film 183,383, Bk B, pg 97, 3 Aug 1870

Relative Name Place Born Date Entered Informant/Member Relationship
(of member)
Hannah Ray VA 3 Aug 1870 Dicy Ray PerkinsNiece
Mary Ray Brezzal VA 3 Aug 1870 Dicy Ray PerkinsNiece
Salley Ray Beasley same samesame
Fanny Ray York same samesame
Lucy Ray Perkins same samesame
Betsy Ray Christial same samesame
Salley Carol Harris same samesame
Lydda Howell Briant same samesame
Lottie Howell Bryant same samesame
Isom RayVA3 Aug 1870Wm Gant Perkins Cousin
John RayVA same same nephew
Wm Ray same samesame
James Ray same samesame
Sherrid Harris same samesame
John Howell same samesame
Philison Howell same samesame
Samuel Howell same samesame
Berry Howell same samesame
James Howell same samesame
(Note: not sure if Wm. G. Perkins is a nephew of the above or a nephew-in-law.)

Mormom Records at Endowment House, Salt Lake City
Baptisms for Dead
Film 183,383, Bk B, pg 76, 27 July 1870

Relative NamePlace Born Date Entered Informant/MemberRelationship
(of member)
Nancy Howell Ray VA 27 Jul 1870 Dicy Ray Perkinsdaughter
Polley Bolon Ray same samegrandaughter
Patta Berry Howell same samegrandaughter
Ritter Hudson Ray VA same sameniece
Ruth Lockhart same samefriend
Nancy Ray Cooper same sameniece
Moses Ray same Wm G. Perkinsnephew-in-law
Washington Cooper same samenephew in-law
Ezekiel Hudson same samesame
Benjamin Lockhart same samesame

Email me at and let's discuss this John Rae and his
children. I would love to work out some more details on this family.

Johnita


Anthony Brazell wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I find this very interesting. I descend from Elias Brazeal and Pherby.
> Elias' wife is Pherby Rhea. They were married in Warren County, about
> 1810-14. I think that her father was John Rhea, not confirmed on that. Elias
> and family moved to Blount County, Al before 1830.
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
> >From: "Mack Rhea" <>
> >Reply-To:
> >To:
> >Subject: [RHEA-L] Warren County, Tennessee Court Record
> >Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:34:34 -0500
> >
> >On March 30, 1992 I received this information from Kathleen Pennington, a
> >descendant of Moses Rhea (brother of Luna Rhea, Sr.). Some of you may find
> >the information interesting:
> >
> >"The article enclosed was in the 1845 Gazette Newspaper (a Warren Co.
> >paper). Our Chancery Court records only wnt back to 1847."...
> >
> >"Chancery Court at McMinnville TN. Uriah York adm of the estate of Nancy
> >Cooper deceased and adm .... of George W. Cooper deceased and filed in his
> >own rights and of Fanny York his, wife, complaint against: James Rhea Sr.,
> >James Rhea Jr., Dyer Rhea, Jane Rhea, Elizabeth Rhea, Mary Rhae, ____Rhea,
> >John Rhea, Alfred Rhea, Lewis Rhea, William Perkins and wife, Dicey, D.
> >Shipley and wife Martha, J. Pryor and wife Viney, Hiram Rhea and Mary, his
> >wife, Elias Brazel and his wife Pherly Hudson, Elizabeth Christian, and
> >John Cooper Jr., and other defendants. All named are not citizens of
> >Tennessee. Commanding the above named defendants to personally appear at
> >the next term of our Chancery Court to be holden at the court house in the
> >town of McMinnville in the state aforesaid then and there to plead answer
> >to said bill of the same will be taken for a confessed and set for hearing
> >exparte.
> > J. E. Morford C+M
> >This is an amendd and supplemented bill bringing new parties before the
> >court and praying as in the original bill that everything touching that
> >estate of Nanacy and George W. Cooper deceased may be adjudicated upon and
> >settled by the court.
> > Burton Sal
> >Aug 29, 1845"
> >
> >
> >Mack Robert Rhea
> >
> >
> >
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