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From: Norma Lewis <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Re: RHEA-D Digest V01 #10
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:44:31 -0800
In-Reply-To: <200101252301.f0PN1S519004@lists5.rootsweb.com>


This is very interesting to me, and reading through this, it looks like you
need to research "Balch" in Rockingham and Augusta County. That might give
you some clues to this early relationship.

I'm interested in Elizabeth Rhea who married Martin Coyner, which is why I
watch this list. I live in Lane County OR ~
My father was born in Wasco County, which is on the Columbia. Wasco was a
large original county and took in most of eastern Oregon at one time. Can't
think off the top of my head when that changed. Oregon is a much newer
state than VA and TN. I also am not aware of the location of Arlington,
but it sounds like eastern OR. You might find it on the USGenWeb Oregon
State site.

Yamhill County was a county formed early east of Salem. Independence (named
for Independence MO where so many wagon trains started) and Dallas were in
that county, which is where many new western settlers lived when they first
got to Oregon, those who didn't go right to Oregon City. They were on
opposite sides of the Willamette River. This would be where new settlers
would get information about land grants and what land was available, etc.
It used to be primarily wheat farming area.

Junction City is a few miles NW of Eugene, Springfield is across the
Willamette from Eugene (twin cities) ~ I have the 1860 and 1870 Lane County
censuses, and several wagon train lists, will look at them for Rheas.

So interesting to me that part of that VA Rhea family actually wound up in
Oregon. A close Coyner/Coiner Relative of that time period wound up in my
home town in Lane County about 1870 or so, George Slagle, but they all went
to OH from VA, as did many of that Coyner/Rhea family. I find many overlaps
in these VA families who came west.
Norma





>Polly Dixon & List,
>
>Polly, thanks for remembering. I draw a blank on this one. All I can do is
>guess, and that can be dangerous! But here goes:
>
>If Robert Rhea was the father of Elijah Walden Rhea, and Elijah was born in
>1824 as reported by the woman in California, that would place Robert's birth
>somewhere between 1780 and 1802. I know, with one or two exceptions, the
>marriages of the Robert Rheas of that era who descended from the William,
>Archibald, & Robert Rhea brothers. Robert's son, Robert, Jr., who married
>Mary Stephens in 1787, moved to E. Tennessee. I know the names of some of
>their children, but not all (Jehu Stephens, Louis L., Elizabeth, and a
>retarded son, Dillan or Dillian). They could have had a son, Robert, who
>would be a candidate for the Robert who married Elizabeth Balch. <snip>

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