Ray / Rea / Rhea Family
Leonard Rea / Ray Bible Record
(This Bible record was published in Tennessee Records,
Bible Records and Marriage Bonds, Compiled by Jeannette
Tillotson Acklen, Nashville, TN, 1933, pp. 161. This Bible record was transcribed by Barb Donovan verbatim from the Acklen book.)
Overton County
*Leonard Ray (here spelled Rea) was born Oct. 23, 1780; married Rebecca, Jan. 7, 1803.
Children
John C., born Sept. 1, 1804.
*Benjamin B., born Sept. 8, 1806.
Biddy, born Feb. 25, 1809.
Nancy Lee, born Feb 23, 1811.
George A., born June 22, 1814.
Theney, born Sept. 28, 1824.
Washington, born April 29, 1828.
*Benjamin B., married Catherine Sehon (date missing).
Children
*John H. Ray, born Aug. 17, 1837.
Martha Jane, daughter of John C., born April 19, 1836.
James K. Polk Ray, born Aug. 15, 1844.
Deaths
Sister Nancy Cox, died May 29, 1814. (Signed) Leonard Rea.
Leonard Ray, died Sept. 10, 1853.
Letter inclosed dated Jan. 19, 1860, addressed to Rebecca, whose death is recorded.
*B. B. Ray, died Nov. 8, 1852.
His wife, Catherine Sehon Ray, died Sept. 19, 1886.
*Indicates line of descent. See John H. Ray Bible record.
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John H. Ray Bible Record
(This Bible record was published in Tennessee Records,
Bible Records and Marriage Bonds, Compiled by Jeannette
Tillotson Acklen, Nashville, TN, 1933, pp. 160. This Bible record was transcribed by Barb Donovan verbatim from the Acklen book.)
Overton County
*John H. Ray, born Aug. 17, 1837 (Ray).
Sarah Ann Officer, born April 10, 1841; married April 18, 1859.
Children
*Lou Cynthia, born Nov. 8, 1961.
W. B., born Feb. 29, 1860.
Robert Lee, born Jan. 1, 1865.
Marriage
*Lou Cynthia, to James C. Walker, Dec. 18, 1879.
James C. Walker, born Aug. 11, 1853.
Children
*Effie Florence, born Sept. 25, 1880 (Walker).
Robert Elmo, born Sept. 25, 1882.
Sarah Bell, born Aug. 31, 1884.
Willie, born Nov. 23, 1886.
Joseph Hubert, born March 17, 1890.
James Edward, born Aug. 31, 1903.
Father and mother of James C. Walker:
Andrew Jackson Walker, born June 12, 1829.
Clementine Verble, born Sept., 1831; married Jan. 23, 1851.
(Father of A. J. was Benjamin, who married the Widow Sehon, who owned the Standing Stone Inn on the old Walton Road. Tradition)
*see John Welch Bible record.
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