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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] More information from my files
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 17:39:14 -0700
References: <s9869e6c.047@mail.state.tn.us>


This is very interesting as Hannah Ritter Rhea is referred to as Ritter
Hudson Ray in the Mormon record that I found. I presume that she was a
Hudson before her marriage to Moses Ray/Rhea/Rea/Rae.

Littlepage is the surname of the lady which Obediah Rhea/Ray married.
Obediah was the son of Moses Rhea and Hannah Ritter Hudson.

Perhaps the Bolon/Bolen/Bolin family was accredited with coming to the
Warren Co., TN., area a little; however, John Ray/Rea/Rae/Rhea's wife was
a Bolon so at least one Bolon was there before 1813.

More likely the William Rhea mentioned in 1811 was the brother of Moses
Rhea. It is likely that all of John Rea/Rae's children were born by
1787. This would make this William old enough. Perhaps he is also the
same William who died in the 1840 time frame.

The John Rhea whose will seems to be lost must be the John Rhea/Ray,
father of Moses Ray/Rhea and husband of Mary Bolon.

There is a Lewis Rhea/Ray somehow connected to this family but the Mormon
record has not given him as a son of John Rhea, the baptist minister, and
his wife, Mary. I do see him listed in the Mormon record and am in the
process of trying to determine his relationship.

Additionally, I do not see a Joseph M. nor a Robert P. listed in the
Mormon record as sons of this older John Rae and Mary Bolon. If Joseph
M. is really Moses, then this is a possibility that shouldn't be ruled
out until proven differently. There were a number of Ray/Rhea/Rae/Rea
families in the area as well as the surrounding area but one needs to be
really careful in sorting out these children. To cite at least one,
there were the children of Ezekiel Rhea who died in White Co., Tn. White
Co., Tn., is closely adjoining and these families had interrelationships
to White Co., Tn., as Lucy Rhea, daughter of John Rae and Mary Bolon,
married Levi Perkins of White Co., Tn.

The early John and Mary's children included at least the following:
Sarah, James, Mary, Moses, Aaron, William, John, Elizabeth, Hannah,
Fareby, Nancy, Fannie, and my Lucy.

Thanks so very much for posting this information. Perhaps this is one of
the leads which we need. If I could only get down to that area to do
more research!!!!!

Johnita



Mack Rhea wrote:
>
> I ran across this information copied for me by Kathleen Pennington in 1991. Perhaps it contains something of interest.
>
> " 304 S. Irwin St.
> Manchester, Tenn. 37355
> 11 Feb. 1984
>
> Mrs. Clifton Pennington
> Rte.12, Box 94
> McMinnville, Tenn. 37110
>
> Dear Kathleen,
> Excuse the delay in replying to your request, but I had the Quarterly to get completed and to the printer's (it was only almost a year late,
and had top priori
> Anyway, I'm enclosing a copy of Mrs. Amato's letter - she never joined the Society, and I never heard from her again at all. I sat down the
other night and beg
> Evidently you have the item I included in my "Deaths in Coffee County" in. which William. Rhea legitimized his five children by Mary Qualls
(Quarles) in 1840.
> and Thomas. Orleny was apparently married to Andrew Stotts, while Elizabeth was married to Johnathan Wooton (from Grundy, Co. marriage
records). In the will h
> In 1840, William Rhea was living in C. D. 9 here, which was not the part cut off from Franklin Co. in 1838, and then cut off into Grundy when
it was formed in
> It's really pretty interesting, since one so seldom runs across a case of legitimization even for one child, much less five !
> Back to the will - he detailed where he acquired his various pieces of land from, and one piece was deeded him by John & Elizabeth Gillis and
others. I wonder
> Coffee area people here, of course. The only possible person for Littlepage is no. 15 there, Thomas Little - who may have really been
named Little, of course.
> About Moses Ray, of course I don't have much. One notation appeared in the early Coffee records regarding disposition of his estate
(included in "Death
> in a deed from David Ross to James Wilson (and this is the area right near Jewell Murphy's) for 1000 acres, and Moses Rea, David Colston, & Wm.
Douglas were wi
> Still working backwards (for some unknown reason), in my copy of Warren Co. Deed Bk. B, p. 232 Moses Rea, executor of John Rea, dec. sold Martin
Johnstone 100
> Going on these facts, one may postulate that John Rhea, Sr. had sons; Moses, John Jr. (Little John), and perhaps William, plus unknown
daughters probab
> North Carolina, No. 844. One wonders, could Joseph M. really be Moses? ? ? The deed from Isaac Drake to a William Rea is in this book too, p.63
- dated 4 Apr.
> That about does it - I hadn't meant to spend all day on this and hadn't meant to write but just a note. But I got into it, and it was rather
intriguing, so I j
> Good luck!
> Sincerely,
>
> Betty Bridgewater
>
> P.S. I don't recall anyone else interested in these folks and there is no one else in my Rhea file."
>
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