James Taylor Rhea
1847-1914

James Taylor Rhea 1847-1914, son of James Dysart Rhea 1802-1886 and his first wife Elizabeth Carter, married on 5-20-1875 Mary Frances Rhea or Frances Bell Rhea b.6-13-1848 d.4-12-1927, the 13th child of Matthew Rhea and Mary Looney. They had 6 children: (See Rhea Family Tree for list of all pages.) Much of the data on this and other pages related to Matthew Rhea and Mary Looney supplied by Robert E. Rhea.

Mary Frances Rhea 1848-1927, 13th and last child of Matthew Rhea and Mary Looney, married James Taylor Rhea 1847-1914, son of James Dysart Rhea, grandson of William Rhea and great grandson of Rev. Joseph Rhea. Mary and James had 6 children:

1. James W. Rhea 1876-1876.
2. Alfred Long Rhea (1878-1925) married Mary Armstrong Wauchope (1884-1948) and they had 5 children.
1. James Taylor Rhea II (1908-1961) married Louise Ralston (1908-1988) and they had 2 children:
• Jill Rhea (1936- ) married first Thomas Francis Tague (1933-1956) and they had 1 child:
• Thomas Patrick Tague (1956- ).

Jill married second Sherman Field Dudley (1922- ) and they had 3 children:

• John Rhea Dudley (1958-1982).
• Jacqueline Shaw Dudley (1961- ).
• Elizabeth Louise Dudley (1965- ).
Jacqueline Rhea (1938- ) married William Hutton McLean (1937- ) and they had 3 children:
• Catherine Rhea McLean (1963- ).
• Leigh Moore McLean (1964- ) married first Robert H. Williams ( ) and they had 1 child:
• Jacqueline Quinton Williams (1987- ).

Leigh married second Anthony Shane Phelps ( ) and they had 2 children:

• Jordan Leigh Phelps (1993- ).
• Christian James Phelps (1994- ).
• Chris Ralston McLean (1968- ).
Katherine Kendrick Rhea (1911-1998) married Mayes Lyle Webb (1905-1990) and they had 2 children:
• Mayes Rhea Webb (1935- ) married Polly Ann Goggin (1934- ) and they had 2 children:
• Kendrick Rhea Webb (1958- ) married Janet Lynn Wolfe (1959- ) and they had 3 children:
• Megan Rhea Web (1985- ).
• Molly Katherine Webb (1988- ).
• Margaret Mayse Webb (1992- ).
• Jane Ann Webb (1961- ) married Danel Maughan (1953- ) and they had 3 children:
• Evart Mayse Maughan ( ).
• Ruth Katherine Maughan ( ).
• Ester Marie Maughan ( ).
• John Weber Webb (1937- ) married Virginia Thompson (1939- ) and they had 3 children:(John and Virginia divorced in 1989. John remarried in 1995 to Judith Clements. No children.)
• John Weber Webb Jr. (1962- ) married Trudy Marie Den Hartog ( ) and they have 2 children:
• Zachary John Webb (1996- ).
• Rachel Elizabeth Webb b.1999
• William Lyle Webb (1967- ) m in 2003 Elizabeth Ann Douglas.(Lives in Memphis TN)
• Douglas Rhea Webb b.9/25/2007.
• Mayes Robert Webb b. 4/13/2010
• Carrie Elizabeth Webb (1969- ) m. in 1997 Kenneth Richard Knecht and they have 2 children:.
• Richard William Knecht b.1999
• Emma Katherine Knecht b.2002
Mary Frances Rhea (1914-1992) married James Hughes Dancy (1910-1968) and they had 1 child:
• Mary Katherine Dancy (1948- ) married Kenneth Radford Smith (1944- ) and they had 1 son:
• Kenneth Rhea Smith (1968- ).
4. Ellen (Eleanor) Preston Rhea (1918-1967) married Jasper Leland Barker (1903- ) and they had one child:
• Mary Josephine Barker (1954- ).
Josephine Wauchope Rhea (1921- ) married William Allen Thomas Sr. (1922- ) and they had 3 children:
• William Allen Thomas Jr. (1952- ) married Victoria Swatzell (1955- ) and they had 2 children:
• Terra Rhea Thomas (1981- ).
• Katherine Corrine Thomas (1984- ).
• James Robert Thomas (1956- ) married Angela Carver ( ) and they had 2 children:
• Tiffany Jean Thomas (1994- ).
• Taylor Allen Thomas (1994- ).
• Brian Rhea Thomas (1963- ) married Cynthia Eiler (1964- ) and they had 2 children:
• Austin Rhea Thomas (1992- ).
• Colton Bannister Thomas (1994- ).
Mary Ellen Rhea (1882-1949) married John Kerr Crawford Jr. (1877-1936) and they had 7 children:
1. Mary Frances Crawford (1909-1994) married Arthur Peter Winfrey Jr. (1908-1985), a cousin, son of Harriet Rhea and Arthur Peter Winfrey Sr., and they had 2 children:
• Arthur Peter Winfrey III (1934-1991) married Eleanor Holton Martin (1934- ) and they had 4 children:
• Arthur Peter Winfrey IV (1957- ).
• William Addison Winfrey (1958- ) married Nancy Marie Vigander (1960- ) and they had 2 children:
• Kristen Marie Winfrey (1990- ).
• William Calvin Winfrey (1992- ).
• Frances Holton Winfrey (1961- ).
• Walter Rhea Winfrey (1962- ).
• John Crawford Winfrey (1935- ) married Barbara Strickland (1934- ) and they had 1 child:
• Mae Millicent Winfrey (1962- ) married David Scott Peterseim (1962- ) and they had 1 child:
• Carolyn Mae Peterseim (1995- ).
2. Louise Edmonson Crawford (1911-1991).
John Kerr Crawford III (1914-1952) married Jean Bass (1926- ) and they had 1 child:
• Jean Kerr Crawford (1952- ) married Donald Carlton Lee (1952- ) and they had 2 children:
• John Carlton Lee (1987- ).
• William Donald Lee (1993- ).
4. Eleanor Cary Crawford (1916-1993).
5. James Taylor Rhea Crawford (1917- ) married Jane Coleman Gowen (1920 ) and they had 3 children:
• Constance Avalyn Crawford (1943- ) married Floyd Stuart Bellet (1929- ) and they had 1 child:
• Ashley Megan Bellet (1979- ).
• James Taylor Rhea Crawford Jr. (1946- ) married Mary Pamela Martin (1948- ) and they had 1 child:
• Leslie Kate Crawford (1980- )
• Cathryn Ann Crawford (1953- ) married Robert Stratton Stauffer (1952- ) and they had 1 child:
• Cathryn Elizabeth Stauffer (1985- ).
Mary Susan Crawford (1920- ) married James Wyman Young (1920- ) and they had 3 children:
• James Wyman Young Jr. (1947- ).
• Susan Crawford Young (1950- ) married first Paul Monroe Stern ( ) and they had 2 children:
• Nicholas Crawford Stern (1975- ).
• Augustus Graham Stern (1977- ).

Susan Young married 2nd Stephen Carroll Wilkinson (1949- ) and they had 2 children:

• Alexander Young Wilkinson (1986- ).
• Ethan Kelly Wilkinson (1990- ).
• Mary Jane Young (1956- ) married Charles Newton Sellick Jr. (1957- ) and they had 2 children:
• Philip James Sellick (1990- ).
• Carolyn Rhea Sellick (1996- ).
7. Hugh Howard Crawford (1924- ).
4. James Dysart Rhea II married Jesse Florence Hearn..Continued on
James Dysart Rhea Page.

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Original 9/20/97
Last updated 2/11/2013
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