Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Samuel Rea and [Unk] Snodgrass




Husband Samuel Rea 1

           Born:  - the north of Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Aug 1811 1
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Mrs.  Edgar (      -      ) 2

   Other Spouse: Martha Grier (      -Aft 1811) 1



Wife [Unk] Snodgrass 1

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


Children
1 M Gen. John Rea 1 4 5

            AKA: Gen. Jno. Rhea 3
           Born: 17 Jan 1755 - Chester Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Feb 1829 - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Rocky Spring Church, Franklin Co, PA
         Spouse: Elizabeth Culbertson (1780-1836) 2 5 6
           Marr: Nov 1806 2



General Notes: Husband - Samuel Rea


He was born in the north of Ireland of Scotch parentage and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1754 or 1755. He settled for a short time in the western part of Chester County, then removed to Lancaster County and finally to the Conococheague Valley, now Franklin County, then part of Cumberland County. He was three times married.


General Notes: Wife - [Unk] Snodgrass


He was of the same family as the Rev. James Snodgrass, one of the early Presbyterian ministers of the Scotch-Irish settlement on the eastern bank of the Susquehanna, who was a grandson of Benjamin Snodgrass, an early settler in the Scotch-Irish Colony on the Neshaminy, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 639.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 640.

3 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 822.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 222.

5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 141.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 223.


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