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From: Richard & Evanda Sallinger <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Capt. John C. Rea - Franklin Co., Illinois
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:52:12 -0700


The following information regarding a Capt. John C. Rea from Franklin
Co., Illinois was sent to me and I hope it may be of value to someone.

Thank you,
Evanda Rhea Sallinger

Rhea-Sallinger Genealogy Home Pages
http://members.xoom.com/erhea/

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Capt. John C. Rea

This gentleman possesses a thorough knowledge of the art of the
husbandman and has taken pains to familiarize himself with the latest
methods of land cultivation, and the result has not failed to be
satisfactory. He was born in
Franklin County. Ill. in 1837, in which state his parents, John K. and
Sarah (Arnett ] Rea, were born, reared and married. Mrs. Rea died in
Franklin County when John C. was an infant, and Mr. Rea afterward wedded
Luticia Dudley, and in 1846 came by wagon to Marion County, Ark.,
locating in the vicinity of Yellville, where he spent the rest of his
life, dying in 1857. He was a man of sterling characteristics, acquired
a competency through his own efforts, and his death was a source of much
regret to all who knew him. He was a Democrat of the Jacksonian type,
but never aspired to political preferment. His father, Wilson Rea was a
Kentuckian, but became an early settler of Illinois, becoming a
successful tiller of the soil, and a man of considerable prominence in
Franklin County, holding the position of judge for some years. He was
at one time a member of the Illinois Legislature, and at all times
showed himself to be a politician of no mean order, and a man of
undoubted intellect and correct
principles. It is thought that his father was an Englishman. He died
in Franklin County Illinois in 1854; his wife's death also occurring
there.

The subject of this sketch was the only child born to his father's first
marriage, but he had the following half-brothers and sisters: Melinda,
who died in Marion County, the wife of John Gillespie; Tramwell M., of
Rea Valley, Marion County, was in the Confederate service throughout the
Civil War, and was in the battles of Oak Hill, Pea Ridge Prairie Grove;
Frank (Deceased], went North prior to the opening of the war, and joined
the Federal Army, and died in the service; Carroll, who was a member of
Shelby's command, (Confederate) during
the war , was killed at Glasgow, MO., while with Price on his raid
through Missouri; Leonard D. was in Shelby's command during the last
two years of the war; and is now a resident of Marion County; Amanda is
the wife of James Billings, of Fulton County; Lafayette resides in
Franklin County., Ill.; Ellen is the wife of John Young, of Sharp
County Ark; Margaret died in Marion County, the wfie of William
Magness; and Eliza, who died in childhood.
....,
John C. Rea came to Marion County and was here marrried, January 16,
1870, to Catherine P., the daughter of James and Elizabeth Mitchell,
natives of Tennessee, from which region they came to Marion County, Ark,
where they eventually died on the farm which they had purchased and
improved. Mrs. Rea was born in Tenn., and died in 1882, having become
the mother of the following children: Omer P.; Robert L; Hattie E.;
Lelar, a child that died in infancy; Lula, who died infancy; Gussie,
who died infancy; and Garland, a twin to Gustavus.

October 3, 1886, Capt Rea led to the alter Miss Susan E. Cantrell, a
daughter of Thomas F. and Martha Cantrell, natives of Tennessee, but who
early became residents of Madison County, Ark. Mr. Cantrell died in
Jefferson
County, Ark., a Confederate soldier, but Mrs. Cantrell is still living,
and resides in Marion County Arkansas. Capt. Rea has been a resident of
Marion County, Ark., since 1869, and in his farming operations has been
quite
successful.........

Ref. A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, Goodspeed Brothers,
Publishers, Chicago., 1894, pp 116,117




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