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Subject: Re: [RHEA] Charles Rhea
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 10:59:05 -0500

Pat
Do you or someone on list have a will for Dr. Robert Rhea ??
If possible I would like to know the name's of Charles Rhea's brother's
and sister's

Thank You
Sondra



On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:31:08 -0500 "Patricia Hall"
<> writes:
> 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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