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Phil Lea
868 Benton Station Road
Benton TN 37307
423-506-4000 cell
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My #1 pet-peeve:     The common mispronunciation of LEA     The correct pronunciation of Lea is: Lee     Lea is Not pronounced "Lee-Uh"      (That would be Leah.)     Do you drink iced TEA-Uh?     Eat a green PEA-Uh?     Would you find on your dog a FLEA-Uh?     Does a ship sail on the SEA-Uh?     Would an attorney enter a PLEA-Uh?     Was Opie's aunt BEA-Uh? (Click HERE for the Merriam Webster's Dictionary Audio Pronunciation of LEA)     (BTW, Lea Thompson doesn't know how to pronounce her own name!!!)

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Pre-1915 picture of a Stump Puller my great-grandfather, Evan Francis Lea invented.
(He's on the far left.)
They would tie off to large stumps and use the horse to "winch" the smaller stumps up.
Leach Lonzo Lea, Sr. was my grandfather and he's on the far right.
(I don't know the man in the middle.)

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Leach Lonzo Lea, early 1900's

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Andrew J. Lea
(my Great, Great-Grandfather)
born 25 Mar 1825 in Monroe Co., TN, died 20 Sept. 1889
Buried at Sumac Church Cemetery, Chatsworth, GA
(stone is broken)

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Louisa Jane Lea 
(my Great, Great-Grandmother)
born 25 Sept. 1833, died 2 May 1901 
Buried at Sumac Church Cemetery, Chatsworth, GA 
Her stone reads: She hath done all she could

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Bradley County TN obituaries from the years 1926 - 1935

JOHN G. LEA
GEORGE J. LEA
J. PRYOR LEA
MRS. MARY ANN LEA
JOHN G. LEA

Henry B. HENEGAR, a prominent citizen and planter of Charleston, was born February 26, 1815 in Greene County. His parents were Capt. Henry and Charlotte (HENDERSON) HENEGAR. They were of German-Irish descent, and natives of Greene County. The father was born November 15, 1785, and died in his native county, February 10, 1839. He was by trade a saddler, in connection with which he carried on farming. He took part in the war of 1812, was also captain of a company in the Thirty-ninth Tennessee Regiment, which was under command of Col. John WILLIAMS. He was a Whig. His wife was born October 18. 1788, and died June 18, 1853. They were married May 21, 1807, and became parents of ten children. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church. Our subject is the fifth child. He was educated in the common schools. In 1836 he went to Missouri, where for two years he was a book agent. The summer of 1838 he returned to Tennessee, and entered the employ of John ROSS, the celebrated chief of the Cherokee Indians, as quartermaster. He accompanied the Indians to their possessions, west of the Mississippi River, and remained with them until December, 1839. In January, 1840, he landed in Greene County, Tenn., and that year farmed, from which time until 1848 he was engaged in trading live stock to Florida. In the winter of 1847-48 he went to Mexico; for several months was contractor at Jalapa, under Maj. Sam MILLIGAN, and returned to Tennessee, in July 1848. September 11, 1849, he married Miss Margaret, a daughter of Col. Luke LEA, of Tennessee, who served gallantly under Gen. JACKSON in the Florida and Indian wars.

In November, 1838, an entry-taker's office was opened at Cleveland with Luke Lea as entry-taker, and P. J. R. Edwards as land register.