RHEA, Fannie - There was great surprise and sorrow here last Thursday on receipt of the intelligence that Miss Fannie Rhea had died at Rhea’s Mill the day before. While visiting her sister, Mrs. J.H. McIlroy, in this city a few weeks ago she was summoned home to attend the bedside of another sister, Miss Alice Rhea, who was very low with typhoid fever. The latter is now convalescing but Miss Fannie contracted the same disease and now lies in the tomb. She was a most excellent young lady, of noble qualities of head and heart, and her untimely death brings sorrow not only to her immediate family but to numerous friends. A number of people from this city attended the funeral. [Fayetteville Democrat 11/7/1890]