I was born and lived in California most of my life and have been doing genealogy for half of it. My father’s mother’s family was (and mostly still is) a mystery because she died when my father was nine months old. He grew up in California with his father, stepmother and sisters.
With DNA testing I have figured out that her mother was probably of French-Canadian ancestry, but other than that we know very little.
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Denise: I found that John Rhea’s wife was Sarah “Sally” Harris, not Sally Scales. Her father was Peter Harris. His mother is reported to be a Glenn. All we know for certain is that her first name was Honour. That definitely explains where the Harris and Glenn in our PV Rhea’s moniker could have come from. I have a DNA test in progress through Ancestry.com. It is autosomal DNA. It will be interesting to see what it may or may not reveal.
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Do you have any sources for Sarah Harris’s parents? Other Rhea/Rea researchers and I have been trying to investigate the Rea/Rhea family of Grainger County, Tennessee as a possible family for John Rhea born about 1772.
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Oops! Peter Harris’ wife was Honour, not his mother. We don’t have a last name for her and, as I said previously, researchers report that it is believed that Peter’s mother was a Glenn.
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