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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] Last Column of page 2 starting with 16.
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 10:13:38 -0500

16. Rhea, Robert and Mary, Revolutionary War & War of 1812, Pension and
Bounty Land Applications, Selected and Nonselected Records, File W10235,
Inv. File233,B.L.Wt.22548-160-50, National Archives, Washington, D.C.* The
file contains many pages of interesting material, including Robert's own
account of places and dates of residence, and his military units and their
movements in the two wars. Signatures include his own and mary's, and of
Mary and James C. Wright, their granddaughter and son-in-law. James C.
Wright married Elizabeth Rhea.
Robert was buried in the Chilhowee Primitive Baptist Cemetery in Happy
Valley, located in Blount County, Tennessee. It is five or six miles south
of Maryville on the south side of the Chilhowee range. The following excerpt
is from Burns, Inez E., History of Blount County, Tennessee, (Mary Blount
Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, The Tennessee Historical
Commission, 1957), 278.* Robert Rhea who had fought in the Revolution and
the Indian Wars, in 1823, asked the Tennessee Legislature to give him a
quarter section in the Hiwassee district 'whereon to spend his declining
years in peace.' In early records, this cove is spoken of as Rhea's Valley.
Robert Rhea was the first coroner of Blount County and lived until 1850, and
is buried in the Chilhowee Primitive Baptist Cemetery ('Red Top')."

17. Kegley, Mary B. & Kegley, F. B., Early Adventures On The Western
Waters, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800, Vol.. 1,
(Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc.,1982), 100.*

18. Kegley, Mary B., Vol. 2:112.* The author quotes from Montgomery County
Commissioners Certificates, p. 141. See also Montgomery Co., VA Deed Book A,
287-288.* Dated September 16, 1782, recorded march 4, 1783. At an
unspecified date, a 593-acre parcel lying on Cripple Creek was granted to
Robert Reagh by Alexander Noble. The deed was proven but not recorded in
Botetourt County, which had jurisdiction until Montgomery became a county in
1776. After Robert's death, the deed, cited above, gave clear title to John
Reagh, his heir, and the administrator of his estate. John, who then resided
on the property, needed clear title to dispose of it.
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