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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] Charles Rhea
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:31:08 -0500


Its interesting to me that the only Charles Rhea I know is a 2nd cousin. and
had never heard of a Charles Rhea other then him before, and now all of a
sudden there are several who have a Charles Rhea they are looking for.

In the History of Kentucky- The Blue Grass State 322886 Volume III published
by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago-Louisville, 1928
pages 237, 238, 239
under Albert Gallatin Rhea
third paragraph it states
Charles Rhea, a son of Dr. Robert Rhea, was born in 1790 near Knoxville, Tn.
and in his youth moved to Kentucky, becoming widely known as a journalist.
In 1812, when twenty-two yers of age, he started the Russellville Messenger,
of which he was editor and publisher, and for many years this was the only
newspaper west of Louisville.
The constitution of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church adopted and ratified
by the Synod of Cumberland held at Suggs Creek, Tennessee, April 5, 1814,
was printed and published in a book of one hundred and thrity-seven pages in
1821 in the establishment of Charles Rhea, who had one of the best plants of
that period.
He supported the whig party and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South: He was a victim of the cholera epidemic of July, 1835, and
died at the age of fortyfive years. he had married Clarissa Roberts, who was
born at Frankfort, Kentucky, in March, 1800, and passed away at Russellville
in 1863.
***
Their son Albert Gallatin Rhea, Sr., was born February 3, 1822, and read law
under the supervision of Judges Elijah Hise and Ephraim Ewing, of
Russellville, where he always made his home. His wife was Jane (Stockdale)
Rhea. She was born May 24, 1824, and d. May 4, 1899. She was a daughter of
Thomas Ward and Laurenda (Hise) Stockdale. Laurenda was born in August 1800
in Allegheny Co. Pa. and died at Russellville in June, 1884. Thomas W.
Stockdale was born in Durham, England, in 1790.

It says that Albert Gallatin Rhea's forebears in the paternal line emigrated
from the north of Ireland to the new world, settling in North Carolina, and
susequently crossed the Cumberland mountains on their journey to Tennessee.
His great-grandfather, Dr. Robert Rhea was a successful physician and
practiced in Tennessee for many years. was a Soldier in the Continental army
and his father also served in the Revolutionary war. John Rhea, another
son of the latter, was elected to congress and for twenty years represented
Tennessee in the national halls of legislation. and then Charles Rhea was a
son of Dr. Robert Rhea.

Pat Hall

this most likely is the family of REv. Joseph Rhea.
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