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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] William Rhea family- continuing with Alexander and Sarah Conger Rhea
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:02:57 -0500


The children of Alexander and Sarah (Conger) Rhea who lived beyond infancy
were: John Conger Rhea, September 19,1836-January 8, 1913,[121] married
Elizabeth J. Pollock on November 27,1856;[112]he was a soldier in the Civil
War, and moved to Kansas, then Washington;[122]William Leander Rhea,
November 11,1840-July 7,1854;[123]Sarah Catherine Rhea, March 26, 1843-March
13,1866,[123]married Michel Pentecost on December 25, 1862;[124]Robert
Milton Rhea, April 25,1848-October 20,1919 married Sarah Elizabeth Harvey,
July 26,1868 and died in Galveston, Texas;[125] Mary Evaline Rhea, July
4,1851-August 12,1875,[123] married James Pottenger, August 26,1867;[124]
and Samantha Caroline Rhea, January 14, 1854-June 27, 1877,[123] married
Julius Lane, Septembe 30,1874.[124] After Sarah's death, Alexander Rhea
married Mrs.. Mildred/Meldora (Vest) Hittle on February 24, 1880.[112,122]
Shortly after his son, Robert Jr., died, Robert married for the second time
to Elizabeth Hornbaker, the sister of his son's widow Catherine, the wedding
taking place on June 28, 1835.[126] She died within six years, leaving a
daughter, Almyra Ann Rhea, born in 1837,[127]and married to Joseph Siders on
May 20, 1853.[128] By 1841, Robert had left Ohio where he had been a justice
of the peace for a number of years, and moved to a farm in Jay County,
Indiana. There he married his third wife, Hannah Peterson, ?-May 10,
1888,[12]on March 25, 1841.[129] From this marriage there were two
daughters, Jane Sample Rhea, born 1842, who married Patrick Bolen on
December 25,1859,[130]and Sarah Rhea, born 1844,[127]and married to Samuel
Broughman on December 2, 1860.[131] Robert died testate[109] on May 5,
1850.[132]
(2) Agnes/Nancy Rhea, married William Wells, the bond dated April 7,
1799.[133](3)Archibald Rhea, the child of William and Mary? (Gay) Rhea died
in 1837.[134] He and Elizabeth (?)Rhea were the parents of two sons, William
Rhea and James Rhea, and four daughters, Elizabeth Rhea, Nancy Rhea, Sarah
A. Rhea and Mary Rhea.
The family has been "reconstructed" through the wills of Archibald and his
sons.

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