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Subject: [RHEA-L] Thomas K. Roach and Martha Rhea
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:57:31 EDT

I posted this query on the internet in 1996, I got a reply today, and thought
it might interest you all.
RHEA - I am interested in the family of Martha Rhea b. Smith Co. Tenn.
1-9-1823. Her father was Archibald Rhea, and a native of Ireland., came to
America with his parents and settled in Smith Co. Tenn. She married Thomas K.
Roach, Nov. 15, 1841(he became or was Governor of Kansas. she his second
wife. Her mother was Susan Littrell born in this country of English
parentage. Do you have any genealogical information on the Rhea family of
Smith Co. Tenn.

Answer:
Dear Pat - I found an archived query from you in 1996 (don't you contribute
to the Wilson mailing list?) Any way, I saw mention of Thomas Kidd Roach
(who is in my family) and thought that the below might interest you. I don't
have much more than her parents Archibald Rhea and Susan Littrell. But I
thought you might like to know what I have on Thomas Kidd Roach. - karen

The Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly Volume I (1796
-1861) contains the following information:

Roach Thomas K. (c.1817 - ?)

House, 25th General Assembly, 1846-45; representing Wilson County; Whig. No
additional information has been found on this legislator except that he
married in Wilson County on July 16, 1835 to Nancy Cloyd. At time of
legislative session was living at Rural Hill, Wilson County; occupation:
farmer.

Sources: "Wilson County Marriage Book," 223; Nashville Republican Banner,
October 11, 1843..
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Wilson County, TN marriages page 180 lists Thomas K. Roach & Elizabeth Martha
Rhea, 15 November 1841. Williamson Williams, M.G.

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