7th Generation

Josiah Edward 'Ned' Rhea..........(son of Dr. John Preston Rhea, Sr. and Matilda Ann Longacre)
Born Jan. 10, 1877 in Bristol, Sullivan Co., TN
Died Aug. 5, 1944 in Panama City, Bay Co., Florida, buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Panama City, in a grassy, unmarked grave next to Jeraldine Cullen Rhea's parents, Ora Bertha Houseman and Brainard Fuller Cullen

    Josiah was a carpenter.  According to Lobdell family records, he resided in Bluff City, Route 3, Sullivan County, Tennessee.  His death record shows he was a widow and lived the last six years of his life with his son, Lysle, and his family in St. Andrews, Bay County, Florida.

Josiah and Nancy married March 11, 1899 in Sullivan Co., TN
[County Marriage Record, Marriage License No. 653, Blountville, Tenn., March 4, 1899, J. E. Rhea To Marry N. V. Jackson, by J. R. Snow, Clerk.]

Nancy Virginia Jackson..........(daughter of Rev. Courtland Columbus Jackson and Sarah "Sallie" Preston Rhea)
Born Dec. 26, 1871 - [the Lobdell family record has her date of birth recorded as Dec. 18, 1869] on Lookout Mountain, Dade Co., Georgia
Died March 31, 1930

Nancy was a school teacher.  She taught in a one-room school house on Lookout Mountain, Chatanooga, TN or GA.  She and her family moved to Panama City, Florida about 1922 and she taught chemistry, science and history from 1922 until 1925 at Panama City High School, now known as Bay County High School, Panama City, FL.  She received her AB Degree from Adelphi College, New York.  She wrote and published poetry.  Her poetry was bound in a velvet book and burned in a house fire in Tennessee.  She became ill about 1925 and her remaining family doesn't know where she died, as they've been unable to find her in the death records of Florida or Tennessee.  Her death date is recorded in a Rhea family Bible, owned by Jeraldine Cullen Rhea, her daughter-in-law.  Her father's family was from New York.

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~Some of her poetry may be viewed by clicking here ~

--**Lysle Edward Rhea - (May 1, 1906-June 21, 1971) m. Ora Jeraldine Cullen, daughter of Brainard Fuller Cullen and Ora Bertha Houseman

--Gwendolyn Preston Rhea - (May 1, 1907-Aug. 23, 1947) m. Jessie Joseph 'Joe' Kirvin, son of Walter Joseph Kirvin and Susie S. Raffield