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From: "RevDrBobBarnes" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA] Roll Call
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:34:21 -0500
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tHANKS FOR THE pOST. dR. bOB!
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From: "Jane White" <>
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: [RHEA] Roll Call


> Group,
>
> My Rea ancestor is Rev. D.D. John Rea, b. 31 Oct 1777 Ireland, d. 12 Feb
> 1855 in Harrison Co., OH. Buried at Beech Springs Cemetery in Harrison
Co.,
> OH with wife, Elizabeth Christy. Minister at Beech Springs Church in
> Harrison Co., OH for 47 years.
>
> His parents were James and Isabella (Rea) Rea (story goes they were
cousins)
> in northern Ireland (Antrim or Tyrone). Story continues that John left
Ire
> as a teenager (Catholic church wanted him to become a Priest, Mother
didn't
> want that) to come to America to his Uncle's in PA. Finding his Uncle's
> lifestyle not to his likening, he left for Washington, PA where he was in
> the first graduating class of Washington and Lee College there in 1804.
>
> Rev. John and Elizabeth had quite a large family, many staying in the
> Harrison/Jefferson Co., OH area. Some of them were Samuel, Andrew,
Francis
> (a Dr.), William Purdy, and others (I'm pulling this from memory as I
can't
> get to my Rea files right now).
>
> My ancestor was Samuel m/ Ruth Anne Robinson. He drowned in the White
Woman
> River in Coshocton Co., OH in 1835?.
>
> His son James Samuel m/ Elizabeth Burchfield from East Springfield, the
> Jefferson Co/Harrison Co line in OH. They left that area by flatboat down
> the Ohio River to Adams Co., OH and settled there.
>
> His son C.B. (Charles Burchfield) Rea m/ Hattie Alma Gibboney in Adams
Co.,
> OH.
>
> His son Phillip H. Rea (my grandfather) m/ Margaret Elizabeth Hamilton in
> Adams Co.,OH
>
> Any cousins out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Jane White
>
>
>
>
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