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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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JAMES RHEA, was born in 1780, in Greenbrier county, Virginia, and when a young man, went to Barren county, Kentucky, where he was married November 20, 1801, to Rachel Joliff, who was born October 16, 1783. They had ten children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Jefferson county, Illinois, where one child was born, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in 1827, in what is now Island Grove township.

James Rhea died February 12, 1843, and his widow died October 28, 1851, both in Sangamon county. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, from Kentucky, under General Harrison; was on Lake Erie, and saw the British vessels brought in after Perry's victory.

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