Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Rea, Samuel W. February 2, 1829 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Samuel W Rea, farmer and stock grower, Carmichaels, 
Penna, was born in the township where he resides, February 
2, 1829. He is a son of Jesse Rea and Mary Wright Rea, 
natives of Montgomery County, Penna. His parents were of 
Scotch Irish origin, and came to Greene County in May, 1828, 
where Mr Rea, who was a farmer all his life, died in 1870. 
Samuel W Rea was the only son in a family of four children. 
He was with his parents on the farm until he attained his 
majority, and attended the district school in the township 
and Greene Academy at Carmichaels. He has devoted his time 
to farming and the growing of fine stock, and has met with 
more than the average success. He owns a fine farm of 360 
acres in Cumberland Township. 
  
      Mr Rea was united in marriage in 1848 to Miss Ruth Ann 
Bailey, daughter of William Bailey and Zillah Johnson 
Bailey. Their children are: Jesse L Rea; Amanda Jane Rea, 
wife of H Kerr, and has one daughter, Ruth E Kerr; L M Rea, 
who married Josephine Hewitt, and is the father of one 
child, Anna Mary Rea; John M Rea; M Zillah Rea; E F Rea; C 
Albert Rea; and Calvin W Rea. William B Rea, Hannah Frances 
Rea, James W Rea and Nettie Rea are deceased. In politics Mr 
Rea is a Republican. He has been school director in his 
township, and filled important offices in Carmichaels 
Presbyterian Church, of which his family are all members. 

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