James Samuel Rea, Jr.

(October 4, 1889 - October 30, 1942)

 

Rea's mother was Elizabeth Rembert, younger sister of Frank Rembert

Frank Rembert came to Longview in 1877, and married a Texan. James S. Rea, Sr. and Ellizabeth Rembert married in Mississippi.
They had ten children between 1880 and 1898 before they migrated from Copiah Cty. Mississippi to Longview.

In 1917, J. S. Rea, Jr. is working in his uncle's dry goods store.

In 1930, Rea is Cashier at his uncle's bank. He lives in a $3,500 home next door to Rembert M. Rea, a brother 10 years younger than he, and who is Teller at the Bank living in a $4,500 home.

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