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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] Bath Co. Va. Rhea's 3. William Rhea (Jr)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:19:43 -0500


3. William Rhea(Jr) sold his Mill Creek property to Samuel McDonald in
1790.[94] The house, still standing, is located one quarter mile north of
the northern end of Bath County Road 654. The tenure of William's residency
there is uncertain, for his name was on the Rockbridge County tax list of
1778,[95]and in 1781 he was appointed constable.[96] He sold his Rockbridge
County property in 1795,[97]in preparation for moving to Kentucky in the
fall of 1796.[98]He died testate in 1824.[99] William is probably buried in
the Rhea cemetery on his "plantation" located several miles N.W. of
Greensburg, Kentucky.
A personal letter written by him in 1808 to a Robert Anderson of Botetout
County, Virginia is among the extant documents of an Augusta County
lawsuit.[100]
William's first wife was Mary ? Gay, daughter of Robert and Sarah (?) Gay of
Rockbridge County. [101]Sarah was the widow of William Jameson.[102] William
and Mary? had three children, Robert, Agnes/Nancy, and Archibald.[101]
(1)Robert Rhea, as stated above under "James," married his first cousin,
Elizabeth Rhea, daughter of James.[79] Sometime before January of 1813, they
moved from Barren County, Kentucky to Preble County, Ohio.[105] There were
five children: (A)Nancy Rhea, about 1799-February 4, 1881, [104] married
John Gray on October 7, 1819,[105] (B)James Rhea about 1800-1862,[106]
married Mary/Polly Gray, sister to John, on October 11, 1821,[105](C)Robert
Rhea Jr., 1800-1805 to January 15, 1836,[107] married Catherine Hornbaker,
daughter of Harmonious and Leah (?)Hornbaker[108] on September 14,
1826;(D)Margaret Rhea, about 1810 to after August, 1848,[109]married Matthew
Taylor on August 25, 1831;[110] and (E)Alexander Rhea, January 14,
1813-December 16,1880,[111] married Sarah Conger, daughter of Rev. Josiah
and Catherine (Runyon) Conger, [112] on February 19, 1834.[113]
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