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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] Rhea Family- (1) John Rhea
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:26:36 -0500


(1)John Rhea, who never married, died about 1812.[143] (2) Alexander Rhea
married Polly/Mary Allen, March 25, 1813[144]and died testate in March,
1815.[143](3)Anny Rhea married David Hutcheson/Hutchason, the bond dated
August 6, 1805.[146]She died testate between May and July of
1812,[147]leaving one child, Elizabeth Hutcheson, who died shortly after her
marriage to Leonard Mudd, June 28, 1826.[148](4)William Rhea Jr., born
1790,[149]first married Isabella Abney, March 30,1824,[150] and then, Mrs.
Tamer McKinney on September 8, 1845.[151]The 1850 U.S. Census for Barren
County listed him as sixty years of age, Tamer, 41, Narcissa m. Rhea, 18,
Isabella V. Rhea, 16, and William Z.T. Rhea, 1, plus three of Tamer's
children by her first husband. (5)Thomas Rhea, October 6,1798-January 7,
1872, and his wife, Mary Winne(Bullock) Rhea, August 5, 1803-August 17,
1878, are buried in marked graves in the Rhea cemetery near
Greensburg.[152]The 1850 U.S.Census for Green County lists persons living
with them as Elizabeth H. Rhea, 30, Catherine M. Rhea, 19, Julia C. Rhea,
18, Thomas Rhea, 16, John Rhea, 14, David Rhea, 12, Martha R. Rhea, 9, and
James C. Rhea, 4. (6)Elizabeth Rhea, August 17, 1783, married Charles Gum,
the bond dated July 22, 1800.[153]A genealogy entitled Leaves From the Gum
Tree purportedly includes descendants of this union.[122](7)Clarissa Rhea
married Daniel Minton, February 28, 1822.[154](8)Narcissa Rhea, probably her
twin, was married a month earlier to William Dills, January 8, 1822.[155]She
married Moses Blakeman on September 29, 1829.[156]
4. Ann/Anna Rhea married John Lockridge.[60,62]John's will, recorded June
24, 1799,[157]names seven children: Andrew Lockridge, William Lockridge,
John Lockridge, James Lockridge, Betsy Lockridge, Sarah Lockridge, and Ann
Lockridge.
5. Alexander Rhea married Mary Crockett on December 4, 1782.[158]In Bourbon
County, he signed a petition to the Virginia Assembly on October 25,
1788,[159]and appeared on the tax list of March, 1791.[160]In 1799 and again
in 1800 he claimed 200 acre parcels on Sugar Creek, a branch of the
Tradewater, in Henderson County, Kentucky, the parent of Hopkins
County.[161]the first power of attorney for Hopkins County was given by
Alexander to his brother, William, to collect his legacy from the estates of
their parents.[162]He was a wheelwright.[163] William Rhea, his son, owned a
mill on the Tradewater.[164]He was appointed with Polly/Mary, Alexander's
widow, as administrator of his estate in 1818.[165]William's wife was
Mary.[166]Alexander and Mary Rhea were involved in the John Rhea vs. Heirs
of Wm. Rhea lawsuit.[62]A Hopkins County deed dated December 5, 1823, names
his only heirs as William Rhea, John Wilson and wife, Ellen, formerly Ellen
Rhea.[199]
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