William L. Rhea and Sarah Shields

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Husband William L. Rhea ¹

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           Born: Abt 1805
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         Father: Joseph Rhea (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth White (      -      ) 1

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• Note: This may be the same person as : William Ray.

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Wife Sarah Shields ¹

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Sarah Shields.

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1 M Joseph Rhea ¹

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2 M Thomas W. Rhea ¹

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3 F Elizabeth Rhea ¹

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         Spouse: Samuel G. Walker (      -      ) 1

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4 F Anna M. Rhea ¹

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         Spouse: James W. Smith (      -      ) 1

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5 F Florence Rhea ¹

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6 M William L. Rhea ¹

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General Notes: Husband - William L. Rhea

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He came to own the old family homestead, and three other farms in Conemaugh township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The Coalport farm is supposed to have been settled by the Hindmans, but no record of them can be found earlier than about 1800. They were an unfortunate family-one drowned, one killed at a raising, another met accidental death in some manner, all, we are informed, in the space of about one year. This farm received the name of Coalport at the building of the canal. James Alcorn had the first store about 1829, and for some years a store was kept at this point by Samuel M. Kier, of Pittsburgh, and George Wilson of Indiana, Pennsylvania. The business of the place ceased with the closing of operations on the canal. Wells were bored for salt water, but no paying quantity found. The residence of William L. Rhea was where the Spear saw mill was built about 1826. There were found skeletons of men, probably Indians, on his farm, and there were burial places on that and the Coalport farm. Some old settlers though the Indian town, on old town bottom, opposite, across the Kiskeminetas, extended across the river on present Indiana County side. From one of these graves, stones enough were taken to build a chimney. In drilling a salt well on this farm a vein of gas was struck, the well was plugged and abandoned and forty years later the gas was not all exhausted all.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 435.