Ellen Preston RHEA^[1]

1847 - 1933  (86 years)

• Name	Ellen Preston RHEA
  Birth	1847	Tennessee   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1 Aug 1933	Memphis, Shelby Co, TN   [1]
  	Cause of death was noted as "myocarditis" (inflammation of heart muscle). Ellen had been diagnosed with this medical problem 8 years earlier. Ellen died at her home, 680 S. Barksdale Street in Memphis, Tennessee at 8:40am on 1 August 1933. According to her death certificate, she was 86 years old at the time of her death.
  Burial	2 Aug 1933	Memphis, Shelby Co, TN   [1, 2]
  	Her body was interred in the Cary family plot at Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown in Memphis, Tennessee on 2 August 1933.
  Person ID	I59635	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Matthew RHEA,   b. of Fayette Co, TN
  Mother	(unknown) LORING
  Family ID	F5933	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hunsdon Fairfax CARY,   b. 3 Mar 1842, Mississippi d. 2 Oct 1924, Memphis, Shelby Co, TN (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	1866  [3]
  Children	1. Miles Fairfax CARY,   b. Dec 1867, Tennessee d. 13 Jan 1917, Memphis, Shelby Co, TN (Age 49 years)   2. Rhea Preston CARY,   b. Jun 1870, Tennessee   3. Elinor Marion CARY,   b. 21 Dec 1884, Tennessee d. 10 May 1951, Memphis, Shelby Co, TN (Age 66 years)   4. Fairfax CARY,   b. 30 Sep 1889, Tennessee d. Jan 1974 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F5932	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Photos

  1920 US Census / Cary, Hunsdon Memphis, Tennessee

  
  

• Sources

  [S2505] Ellen Rhea Cary, Tennessee certificate of death no. 17224 (1933). [S2084] Find A Grave, online (http://www.findagrave.com). downloaded 26 October 2011. [S953] Wilson Miles Cary, compiler, Cary, "Ancestral Lineage of Hunsdon Cary of Richmond, VA", Accession No. 27382.