Uncovering Roots by Lillian Frazer

Author:Lillian Frazer [Frazer, Lillian "Sissy Crone"]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781728344386
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2020-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

JAMES THOMAS RHEA

SIXTH GENERATION

DIRECT ANCESTOR TO PALMER RHEA, SR.

JAMES THOMAS RHEA (F.10.) (E.9. Thomas Turk, D.8. John, C.5. William, B.3. Archibald, A.1. Matthew) (Born abt. 1823 – July 16, 1890) (Another source lists dates as 1821-1888 and another lists birth as 1832.). James was born in Bath County, Virginia. About age 27 or 28, he married Malinda Ann Smith (born 1836 according to death records and 1832/1835 according to U.S. Federal Census records – died 1911), Malinda was daughter to Henry and Angelina Smith. James and Malinda were married in Rockbridge County, Virginia on January 1, 1851. (Another source lists marriage date as December 26, 1850). Malinda’s age at time of marriage would have been 15 to 18 years old. James was Palmer Rhea, Sr.’s paternal grandfather.

James grew to adulthood in the mountainous Bath County with his parents, Thomas Turk Rhea and Sarah Lynch Rhea, and his siblings. As an adult, James was a farmer and owned his own farm on Pig Run in Millboro, Bath County, Virginia. The Bath County land is beautiful with surrounding mountain ridges. Bath County is divided into two main valleys and then sub-valleys. His farm was in the Cowpasture River Valley. This area is currently located near the central western border of the Commonwealth of Virginia. However, prior to West Virginia being formed in 1863, Bath County lay near the center of the State of Virginia. James would have been about 40 years old when this division of land occurred.

At about age 67, James was killed by lightning on his farmland on Pig Run while walking home carrying a bucket. According to family, James, along with others, had been timbering his land. This land later became known as “Beatty’s Ridge,” named after John Andrew Beatty, Sr., who was a neighbor to the Rhea family. James and his sons often timbered the land, selling the timber, as well as farming. His son James William Rhea was accompanying him at the time of the lightening incident and was unharmed.

It is unknown where James Thomas Rhea is buried. His wife Malinda died at about age 75 and is buried at Rehobeth Community Church Cemetery, 3785 Pig Run Road, Millboro, Bath County, Virginia.

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