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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] 7. John Rhea
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:00:47 -0500


7. John Rhea had extensive holdings on Mill Creek in Bath County, and at
Painter (Panther)Gap in Rockbridge County.He was drafted for the
Revolutionary War, but in order to help his father tend the family farm, he
hired a substitute.[62]His first marriage was to Margaret Turk, daughter of
Thomas and Margaret (Grove ?)Turk.[40,62] The names of their children,
Elizabeth Rhe, Thomas(Turk)Rhea, William Rhea, John Rhea, Margaret Rhea, Ann
Rhea, Jane Rhea, Polly Rhea, and James Rhea are found in a Deed of Gift
signed May 5, 1802 by Thomas Turk Sr. he gave them "one negro girl named
Violet and her increase," having previously given them to his late daughter,
Margaret.[40]Elizabeth married Toliver Wright, the bond dated on July 31,
1797.[183]Margaret married William Wright.[184]Thomas Turk Rhea married
Sally/Sarah Lynch on September 17, 1807.[185]
John's second marriage was to Magdalane/Magdaline/Magdalene Dill, on October
18, 1800.[186]Her name is spelled "Still in the marriage papers. Henry Dill,
her father, had lands adjoining John's in Bath County.[187] He mentioned his
"five grandchildren of John Rhea Dec.d, also Rebecca Rhea" in his will dated
March 3, 1818.[188]Their children were Sarah L. Rhea, Ester J. Rhea, Nancy
P.Rhea, Hiram Rhea, and Henry Dill Rhea.[40,184]Henry Dill Rhea, ?-November
4, 1857 married Elizabeth A. Adams.[201]
On August 14, 1814, in Madison County, Mississippi Territory (later
Alabama), John married his third wife, Polly E. Nesmith.[184] She testified
in a lawsuit brought against his heirs that she was "nearly seventeen years
of age" at the time of the marriage. John died intestate in October, the
same year.[184]For more extensive information on John Rhea, son of William
of Bath County, the reader is referred to an accompanying article by
Constance Corley Metheny, a descendant of his son, Thomas Turk Rhea, and
granddaughter, Susanna S. (Rhea) Corley.

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