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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] Ref. & Notes starting with 26. Kegley, Mary B.,
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:23:55 -0500


26. Kegley, Mary B., Personal Communication.* As for Jehu Stephens, he
ended up getting the land of Robert Reaugh on Cripple Creek, and part of the
james White land, which had been purchased from John Reaugh in 1782
(Mont.Co.,Deeds)...See Wythe County Deed Book 5, p. 77, 1807 when James
White of Knox County, Tenn.. appoints William Love,Jr. attorney to make
deeds to Jehu Stephens, Sr. (Robert Rhea's old place, also John Rhea's 100
acres adjoining 'where Stephens now lives')." See also: Schreiner-Yantis,
Netti, Montgomery county,Virginia-Circa 1790,81.*

A brief sketch of Jehu Stephens is found in the Draper Manuscript
Collection, 30S 79-80.* "Col. Jacob (Jehu) Stephens lived in what is now
Wythe County on Reed Creek...-5ft 8-heavy made, & strong active man, a great
wooodsman & a fine gunner. Rather illiterate...It was on Goose Creek in
Bedford Co. where he Bufords lived, he was raised. Stephens' halfbrother &
older(the same mother) was Capt. Henry Paulin...married for his first wife a
Ramsey, a sister of Wm. Col. Stephens was a farmer - good character- lived
in a Dutch settlement. Moved to Tennessee just as the bells of the Indians
Wars...moved to Little River in Knox Co., Tennessee... Died there somewhere
about the close of the War of '12."This brief "remembrance" of Jehu
Stephens, written many years after his death, seems to indicate that Jehu's
first wife wa a Ramsey. But the statement could be interpreted as pertaining
to the wife of his brother, henry Paulin. According to Mary B. Kegley,
Jehu's widow was named Bethia: "From other information a John (Probably an
error for Jehu as so often happens to his records) Stephens died before the
Sept. term of Blount Co. Tenn. Court 1810, and his widow, Bethia (this was
Jehu's wife's name), relinquished her right to administer the estate in
favor of John Stephens, Jr. (Perhaps Jehu again?)."

27. Death Certificate, Cass Co., IN, Nov. 18, 1901, Robert Kirkham Rhea.*
Son of Jehu Stephens Rhea, grandson of Robert Rhea Jr., and great-grandson
of Robert Reah/Reagh/Reaugh, brother to William and archibald. Age:88 yers,
9 months, 15 days. Born in Knox Co.,Tennessee. Father born in Tennessee.
Mother, Elizabeth Smith, her birthplace (looks like "Carolina"). Burial in
Young America Cemetery.

28. Bowers, Ruth, and Short, Anita, Preble County, Ohio Common Pleas Court
Records, 1810-1850, (Greenville, OH), 95*. Jehu Stephens Rhea's probate
records, Preble Co., Ohio.*

29. York, Linda (Crochett), Fort Wayne, IN, & Baker, Clemence (Rhea),
Auburn WA, Personal Communication.* They descend from Jehu Stephens and
Elizabeth (Smith) Rhea through their son and daughter-in-law, Robert Kirkham
and Sarah E. (Rhinehart) Rhea; Linda York from Sarah elizabeth (Rhea)
Crockett, and Clemence Baker from Archibald and Minerva Alice (Dawson) Rhea.

Clemence (Rhea Baker has written articles entitled "The Jehu Stephens
Rhea Family" and "The David Rinehart Family" in the Preble County, Ohio
History by the Preble County, Ohio Historical Society, 1992.

30. Short, Anita, Preble County, Ohio Marriage Records, Vol..1, 1808-1830,
Vol.. 2, 1831-1840, Vol. . 3, 1841-1859, 2:15.

31. Ibid., 2:44.

32. Death Certificate, Cass Co., IN, Indiana State Board of health,
Certificate No. 34625.* Rhea, Sarah (Rhinehart), Dec. 4, 1922. Wife of
robert Kirkham Rhea, the son of Jehu Stephens Rhea. She died of acute
bronchitis at the age of 101 years, 10 months, 17 days.
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