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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Notable Southern Families- Joseph Rhea- Washington co. Va.
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:29:57 -0500


Here is your Washington Co. Va. family of Joseph Rhea

otable Southern Families, Volumes I & II

IV Matthew Rhea III lived and died in Kinnically, near St. Johnston,
Ireland. He had a son named William Rhea II, who married Elizabeth
Lockhart. William Rhea was born and married in Ireland. After the birth of
his children he moved, with his family to America (1785) and located in
Washington County, Virginia, where he lived until his death. He had
children: (1) Matthew Rhea IV, who married Margaret Breden, (sister of
Frances, Elizabeth and Nancy Breden, who married, respectively, Joseph,
William and Samuel Rhea) and had children: (a) Elizabeth Rhea; (b) William
Rhea; (c) Margaret Rhea; (d) Robert Bruce Rhea (1814-1888) (married twice:
First, Sarah Ann White, no issue; Second, Sarah Sells. Children: Margaret
Rebecca Rhea, (1876-) who married Robert Earhart Rhea (son of Joseph Rhea
and Elizabeth Ann (Earheart) Rhea). Children under Robert Earheart Rhea:
John Matthew Rhea, (1878-) who married Elizabeth Payne Gresham, and had
children: Eleanor Elizabeth and John Matthew Rhea II; William Rankin Rhea,
(1880-) who married Mary Zeta Slack, and had children: Robert Bruce and
Julia Holston); (e) Sallie Rhea; (f) Jane Rhea, (married Alexander Doggett,
and had chldren: Catherine, James, and William); (2) Jennie Rhea; (3)
Joseph Rhea; (4) William Rhea; (5) Sarah Rhea; (6) Elizabeth Rhea; (7)
ROBERT RHEA, (1784-1841) (was born in Ireland and came to America with his
father (1785) and located in Washington County, Virginia. Later he moved to
Sullivan County, Tennessee. where he lived until his death). He married
twice: First, Elizabeth Rhea (daughter of Rev. Joseph Rhea and Elizabeth
(McIlwaine) Rhea); Second, Jane Scott (daughter of John Scott, a colonel in
the Revolutionary War). By his first wife he had four children, given in
full under Elizabeth Rhea. By the second wife he had children: (a) Mary
Rhea, (1827-1882) who married James J. Snapp, and had children: Robert L.
Snapp; Mary J. Snapp; James B. Snapp; Sarah E. Snapp; Margaret V. Snapp,
(1857) (who married Robert Snapp, and had children: Mary E. Snapp, who
married Charles R. Bright, and had children: Virgnia and William; Myrtle
Snapp; James Snapp; Mattie L. Snapp, who married Joseph Booher, and had
children: Belle and Everett; Margarett Snapp; Landon Snapp); Loueja Snapp;
Laura Snapp; William Snapp; (b) Jane Rhea, who married --- Smith; (c)
Margaret Rhea, who married Audley Anderson (son of Edward B. Anderson and
Eleanor (Rhea) Anderson). Children under Edward B. Anderson.



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