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Subject: [RHEA] Rhea References and Notes Pages 10 and 11 #107-114
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 23:44:48 EDT
#107- Schirack, Eddie, PREBLE COUNTY, OHIO COMMON PLEAS COURT RECORDS,
1810-1850, 117.* David Putnam vs. Harmonious Rhea et al..., June 15, 1850.
Gives the date of Robert Rhea, Jr.'s death, and names his children:
harmonious, John, William, Elizabeth and Elias B. Rhea.
In the text, the superscript reference for Harmonious and Leah
Hornbaker was inadvertently omitted. See Ref. 108.
#108- Will of Harmonious Hornbaker, copy of original will.* Dated June 5,
1832, proved July 8, 1833. PREBLE CO., OHIO WILL BOOK B, 243-244? Named his
wife, Leah; sons, Philip, Henry and Isaac Hornbaker; daughters, Polly Frame,
Ann Runyon, Catherine Rhea, Rachel Tittle, and Betsy Hornbaker; Grandson
Benjamin Hornbaker, not of age (son of John Hornbaker, deceased); executors,
wife, Leah, and friend, Smith Charles; witnesses, William Arrasmith, Jacob
Brubaker, and Mary Fruits.
#109- JAY CO., IN ESTATE FILE BOX 5, The will and probate records of Robert
Rhea,* son of William and Mary? (Gay) Rhea, grandson of William and Elizabeth
(Clark) Reah/Reagh'Rhea. Dated August 4, 1848, filed June 3, 1850. he named
his wife, Hannah, their daughters, Jane Sample Rhea and Sarah Rhea, his
daughter Almyra Ann Rhea, by his second wife, Elizabeth Hornbaker, and the
children by his first marriage to Elizabeth Rhea: Nancy Gray, Margaret
Taylor, James Rhea, Alexander Rhea, and the heirs of Robert Rhea, deceased.
He bequeathed two tracts of land in Huntington County, Indiana, to his
daughter, Sarah. Executors were his son, Alexander Rhea, and his friend
Alexander White, a justice of the peace. Besides the usual assortment of farm
animals and implements, home furnishings, etc., a number of books were listed
in the inventory: Master Key to Popery History of the United States & Maps,
Life of Lorenzo Dow, Ohio Statutes, Buck's Theological Dictionary, Blair's
Sermons & Hester Ann Rogers. The book of sermons by George Whitfield which
his grandmother mentioned in her will failed to survive the ravages of time
(Ref. 61).
#110- PREBLE CO., OH MARRIAGE BK. A, 226.*
#111- Gilbert, Audrey, OBITUARY ABSTRACTS FROM PREBLE COUNTY, OHIO
NEWSPAPERS, VOL.1, 1850-1890, (Owensboro, KY: McDowell, Pub., 1981). Gilbert,
Audrey, PREBLE CO., OH DEATH RECORDS, 1867-1907. See also Ref. 112.
#112- "[John C.] Rhea Family Bible" in KENTUCKY ANCESTORS. Vol.8., No.3,
January, 1973.
#113- PREBLE CO., OH MARRIAGE BK. A, 279.*
#114- Civil War Pension WC 195-823, National Archives, Washington, D.C. for
John W. Rhea, Pvt., Co. A, 64th Ohio Regiment, Ohio Infantry.* The file
contains a description of his wound in the battle at Franklin, Tennessee, on
November 30, 1864, and his subsequent hospitalization. The author has the
lead ball that fractured his left and right jawbones. His death in 1881
resulted from an impaired ability to eat.
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