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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] page to follow The family has been "reconstructed" through the wills of Archibald
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:58:29 -0500


Archibald named his wife Elizabeth, his son James, and his daughter,
Elizabeth, and "my children."[134]William named his wife, Mary, his brother,
James, his sister,Elizabeth, and his sisters nancy Gatewood, Sarah A.
Reddin,[135]Nancy had married Pemberton Gatewood, November 10,
1830,[136]Sarah A. had married(?)Reddin,[135]and Mary married Aaron C.
Blakeman, May 3, 1832.[137]James died testate in 1847, but mentioned only
his wife, Nancy Catherine.[138]
Robert Gay, the father of William's first wife, Mary?, bequeathed one-third
of his personal estate to his wife, Sarah, two-thirds to his granddaughter,
Agnes/Nancy Reagha and his land on Moffett's Creek in Rockbridge County he
devised to his grandsons, Robert Reagha and Archibald Reagha.[101]They sold
the property to Christopher Surface in 1804, but Robert's wife, Elizabeth,
failed to sign the deed.[139]She relinquished her interest on January 21,
1813, seven days after the birth of her son, Alexander.[103]
William Rhea's second wife was Elizabeth Brownlee, daughter of William and
Sarah (Mitchell) Brownlee,[100,140]and widow of Thomas Nelson Jr.[141]Her
mother was the sister of David Mitchell, one of the earliest settlers on
Catawba Creek, now in Botetourt county.[142]William and Elizabeth had eight
children: John, Alexander, Ann/Anny, William, Thomas, Elizabeth, Clarissa,
and Narcissa. Their names are documented in a Green County, Kentucky Circuit
Court lawsuit in 1819, Wm. Rhea vs Brownlee Heirs[140] They are also named
with half siblings Robert, Agnes/Nancy, and Archibald in an 1827 lawsuit,
William Wells et al. vs.Leonard Mudd et al.[143]

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