Gen. John Rea and Elizabeth Culbertson
Husband Gen. John Rea 1 2 3
AKA: Gen. Jno. Rhea 4 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
Father: Samuel Rea ( -1811) 1 Mother: [Unk] Snodgrass ( - ) 1
Marriage: Nov 1806 5
Wife Elizabeth Culbertson 3 5 6
Born: 3 Mar 1780 7 Christened: Died: 6 Jun 1836 - Marias Forges, Blair Co, PA 5 7 Buried: - Martinsburg, Blair Co, PA
Father: Col. Samuel Culbertson (1741-1817) 4 5 8 Mother: Elizabeth Maclay (1752/1755-1817) 4 5 7
Children
1 M Samuel Culbertson Rea 3 6
Born: 1808 - near Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: 1878 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 6 Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth J. McKee ( - ) 3 6
2 M Dr. John Rea 3 6
Born: Christened: Died: 1885 3 Buried:Spouse: Hannah B. Laughlin ( - ) 3 6
3 M James D. Rea 3 6
Born: Christened: Died: 1858 or 1868 9 Buried:Spouse: Ruth Blair Moore ( -1908) 3 6
4 M William Rea 3 6
Born: 1820 - Franklin Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: 1892 3 10 Buried:Spouse: Matilda Robinson ( - ) 3 6
5 M Charles Rea 3 6
Born: 1823 3 Christened: Died: Aft 1908 Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Cochran ( - ) 3 6
6 M David Rea 3
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
7 F Elizabeth McClay Rea 3
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1893 Buried:Spouse: William Scott ( - ) 3
8 M Andrew Jackson Rea 3
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Jane Maloney ( -1841) 3
9 M William Rea 3
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
10 F Hannah Rea 3
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Gen. John Rea
His early life was spent in the Conococheague region of Pennsylvania, while it was still infested with Indians and amid the hardships of frontier life. With the outbreak of the Revolutionary struggle he became at once an ardent supporter of the patriot cause, enlisting in Captain William Hendricks' company, in Colonel Thompson's rifle battalion, the first armed force from Pennsylvania to march for General Washington's camp at Cambridge, Massachusetts, leaving Carlisle, Cumberland county, July 15, 1775, and reaching the camp at Cambridge, August 8, 1775. His next service was as lieutenant of a company in the Fifth battalion of Cumberland county militia to which position he was commissioned January 20, 1777. On July 31, 1777, he was promoted to captain of the Eighth company in the Eighth battalion, Colonel Smith, being re-commissioned May 14, 1778, and again on May 10, 1780, as captain of the Second company, First battalion, Cumberland county militia, Colonel James Johnston, and was in active service during practically the whole war, serving under Colonels Armstrong, Smith and Johnston. With the close of the Revolution he became an officer of the Pennsylvania militia and rose through the several grades to the rank of brigadier-general, and during the War of 1812-1814, was major-general of the Seventh division of Pennsylvania militia, in active service. His services in the civil department of his native country were not less distinguished than in the military department. He was a member of Assembly from Franklin County in the sessions of 1789-1790, 1792-1793, and 1796-1797; was elected to the United States Congress in 1803 and served until 1811, and was again elected to Congress on May 11, 1813, for the unexpired term of Robert Whitehill who died in 1812, and was again elected for the term of 1814-1815. He was elected to the state senate in 1823 and resigned in 1824.
The following romantic story is told of him: "When a young man of perhaps twenty-five or twenty-seven, during the Revolution or at its close, he went to call on his friend, Col. Samuel Culbertson. While there he was shown the new baby, Elizabeth. After admiring her, he said, 'Sam, you must save her for me.' When he was fifty years old he married her."
He and his wife had eleven children, nine boys and two girls, two of whom died in childhood.
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, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 222.
3 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 141.
4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 822.
5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 640.
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.
7 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 139.
8 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 137.
9 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 141, 161.
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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 224.
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