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From: "day" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA] More on Rhea/Ray TN to MO.
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:16:35 -0500
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I have Elizabeth Tipton Rhea as having married
9-28-1860 in Jasper Co., Missouri to G.W. Williams

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Subject: Re: [RHEA] More on Rhea/Ray TN to MO.


> This is mostly third hand info with a few backups based on Benton Co Mo
vital
> stats. The third hand part first. The Rhea family party had all started
out
> for Oregon from TN. They spent a bad winter in Fort Scott Bourbon Co Ks.
Some
> of the Rhea party continued on to Oregon but James Rhea (dob 1799?) with
his
> wife Elizabeth Tipton and daugher Nancy Rhea Boring with young children
and
> maybe other family members turned back to Benton Co Mo where Elizabeth
Tipton
> Rhea had relatives.So the reason to go to Benton Co may have been Tipton
> relatives. I am not sure on the dates that they arrived in Benton Co but
> should have been before 1858.I think I saw other census info but for sure
by
> the 1880 census Nancy Rhea Boring Sturges was once again a widow. Her
death
> and burial 1883 is also in the Benton Co vital stats. James Rhea her
father
> may have died in Jasper Co Mo. Date unknown. Elizabeth Tipton Rhea may
have
> married for a second time after James death. Thats all I can recall right
now.
>
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