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From: Norma Lewis <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Re: RHEA-D Digest V01 #39
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 15:28:00 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200104092201.f39M1CG17612@lists5.rootsweb.com>



Pat: Penny is onto the Augusta County VA Rheas, and says she never saw it
spelled that way. I think the spelling I've seen from Scotland is Reagh,
and I've always assumed all the Reas and Rays are descended from them. This
argument about this will is mentioned more than once in Chalkley's and
eventually mentions Elizabeth Rhea who married Martin Luther Coyner. One of
their daughters or grandaughters also married a Lockridge. It was John
Lockridge who wrote about Captain Samuel Brown Coyner who was a Civil War
hero.
Ann Rhea, sister to Elizabeth, married a Turk who was a lifelong attorney
to the Coiner/Coyner family.

So, maybe if you elaborate on that family, Pat, it will help Penny find her
John. There were lots of Johns but you can figure them out by generations
and dates. I can never remember, off the top of my head, how it goes,
because as we know, the story in the Koiner History is not wholly correct.
Norma

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